How Glitter is Made

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 is 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 before they’re cut.

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

There are completely different applied sciences utilized 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 a whole lot. High-quality film goes to offer you nice glitter…. or is it?

You possibly can take great film and run it through a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. Should you check out cheap glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes are not 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 other international locations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising just isn’t the identical world wide as it is right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, should you buy an affordable metallic glitter it most likely does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter too much if you’re using it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it matters a lot if you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!