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 could be a single strong color.
The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The identical goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated earlier than they're cut.
There are completely different types and sizes of machines which are used for cutting glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into both hex shape items or square shape pieces 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used primarily based on the dimensions of the flake.
There are different applied sciences used by totally different corporations of course.
his is an endless matter as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues an entire lot. High-high quality film goes to provide you great glitter.... or is it?
You'll be able to take great film and run it via a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. Should you check out low-cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes are not uniform in shape, however you will note little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
Numerous bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low cost film and operate machines that aren't well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from other international locations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising is not the identical around the globe as it's right here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, if you happen to purchase an inexpensive metallic glitter it probably doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you are utilizing it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it matters a lot in case you are utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!