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 may 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 handled before they’re cut.

There are completely different types and sizes of machines which are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into both hex form items or sq. shape items relying on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-minimize 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 on the size of the flake.

There are totally different technologies utilized by completely different corporations of course.

his is an finishless 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 give you great glitter…. or is it?

You may take great film and run it by means of a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you check out low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes will not be uniform in form, but you will notice little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

Quite a lot of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different international locations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising will not be the identical around the world as it’s right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, when you purchase an inexpensive metallic glitter it most likely doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter an excessive amount of if you’re using it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it matters a lot in case you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!