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 both 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 same goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated earlier than they're cut.
There are different types and sizes of machines which are used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into either hex shape pieces or square 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 sq. flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used primarily based on the scale of the flake.
There are totally different technologies utilized by different companies of course.
his is an endless subject as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you great glitter.... or is it?
You can take great film and run it via a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. In the event you check out low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren't uniform in shape, but you will note little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.
Plenty of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use cheap film and operate machines that aren't well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different countries are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising will not be the same around the globe as it is here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in the event you buy a cheap metallic glitter it most likely doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter an excessive amount of in case you are utilizing it for simple crafts. However, it issues rather a lot if you're using it for floors, boats and in solvents!
