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 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 before they’re cut.
There are completely different types and sizes of machines which are used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that lower the glitter into both hex shape pieces or square shape items depending on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-reduce shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex form flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used based on the scale of the flake.
There are completely different applied sciences utilized by totally different companies of course.
his is an endless topic as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a complete lot. High-quality film is going to present you nice glitter…. or is it?
You can take great film and run it via a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. In the event you take a look at low-cost glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes usually are not uniform in form, however you will note little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.
A lot of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use cheap film and operate machines that aren’t well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising will not be the same around the world as it is here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, for those who buy an affordable metallic glitter it most likely doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much in case you are using it for easy crafts. However, it matters lots in case you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!