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The glitter that we sell is made from completely different types of film. The Craft Glitter is made from PVC film and the Polyester Glitter is made from PET films. The iridescent line combines each PET and acrylic together.

The metallic glitters are made from film that may be a single stable color.

The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The same goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated earlier than they are cut.

There are totally different types and sizes of machines which might be used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex shape items or sq. form items depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-lower shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used primarily based on the size of the flake.

There are completely different applied sciences utilized by totally different companies of course.

his is an finishless subject as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues an entire lot. High-high quality film goes to provide you great glitter…. or is it?

You can take nice film and run it by a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. When you check out cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes will not be uniform in form, however you will see little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.

A number of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use cheap film and operate machines that aren’t well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from other nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising shouldn’t be the identical world wide as it is right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, should you purchase an inexpensive metallic glitter it most likely doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter too much if you are utilizing it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it issues quite a bit if you’re utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!