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The glitter that we sell is made from 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 both PET and acrylic together.

The metallic glitters are made from film that could be a single strong 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 before they’re cut.

There are different types and sizes of machines that are used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into either hex form pieces or sq. shape items relying on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-cut shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based mostly on the dimensions of the flake.

There are different technologies utilized by completely different corporations of course.

his is an endless topic as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you great glitter…. or is it?

You can take great film and run it through a badly set up machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. Should you take a look at low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes are not uniform in shape, but you will see little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.

Quite a lot of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising is just not the same around the world as it’s here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you purchase an affordable metallic glitter it most likely does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter too much if you are utilizing it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it matters so much if you’re using it for floors, boats and in solvents!