The glitter that we sell is made from two 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 is 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 are cut.
There are different types and sizes of machines which can be used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that lower the glitter into both hex shape items or square shape pieces 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 primarily based on the dimensions of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences used by totally different companies of course.
his is an endless matter as there are such a lot of variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-quality film goes to provide you great glitter.... or is it?
You may take nice film and run it through a badly set up machine and you'll not get a clean cut. When you check out low cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes aren't uniform in form, however you will notice little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
Plenty of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different countries are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising shouldn't be the identical all over the world as it's here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in the event you buy a cheap metallic glitter it in all probability does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much in case you are utilizing it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it matters loads if you're utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!