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 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 handled earlier than they're cut.

There are totally different types and sizes of machines that are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into either hex form items or square form items depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-minimize 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 scale of the flake.

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

his is an finishless topic as there are such a lot of variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a whole lot. High-high quality film is going to give you nice glitter.... or is it?

You may take nice film and run it by a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. For those who check out low-cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes are not uniform in form, however you will note little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.

Numerous bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from other nations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising is not the identical world wide as it is here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in the event you purchase an inexpensive metallic glitter it in all probability doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter too much in case you are utilizing it for easy crafts. However, it issues quite a bit if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!