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 each PET and acrylic together.
The metallic glitters are made from film that may be a single solid color.
The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The identical 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 slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into both hex shape items or sq. form 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used based mostly on the size of the flake.
There are completely different technologies utilized by completely different companies of course.
his is an finishless topic as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-quality film is going to present you great glitter.... or is it?
You possibly can take great film and run it by way of a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. In case you check out cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren't uniform in shape, but you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
A whole lot of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low-cost film and operate machines that aren't well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising just isn't the identical around the globe as it is right here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, in the event you buy a cheap metallic glitter it probably doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter an excessive amount of if you're utilizing it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it issues so much in case you are utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!