How Glitter is Made

The glitter that we sell is made from totally 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 stable 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 are cut.

There are totally different types and sizes of machines that are used for cutting glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into both hex form pieces or sq. form items relying on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-minimize shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used based mostly on the dimensions of the flake.

There are completely different technologies used by completely different companies of course.

his is an endless subject as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-quality film goes to present you great glitter…. or is it?

You possibly can take great film and run it by means of a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. For those who check out cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in form, but you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

A variety of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use cheap film and operate machines that aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different international locations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising is just not the same around the world as it is right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, if you happen to buy a cheap metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter an excessive amount of if you’re using it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it matters so much in case you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!