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 each PET and acrylic together.
The metallic glitters are made from film that could be a single solid 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 before they are cut.
There are different types and sizes of machines which are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into either hex form pieces or square form pieces depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-cut shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex form flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used based on the size of the flake.
There are different applied sciences utilized by completely different companies of course.
his is an endless topic as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a whole lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you nice glitter…. or is it?
You possibly can take nice film and run it by a badly set up machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. For those who check out cheap glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes are usually not uniform in form, but you will notice 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 aren’t well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different countries are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising will not be the identical around the world as it is right here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, in the event you purchase a cheap metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter too much if you are using it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it matters so much if you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!