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How Glitter is Made
The glitter that we sell is made from 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 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 handled before they're cut.
There are totally different types and sizes of machines that are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into both hex shape pieces or sq. form items depending 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used based mostly on the scale of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences used by completely different corporations of course.
his is an endless matter as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a complete lot. High-high quality film goes to offer you great glitter.... or is it?
You can take great film and run it through a badly arrange machine and you'll not get a clean cut. Should you take a look at low cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes will not be uniform in form, but you will note little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.
A number of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use cheap film and operate machines that aren't well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from other countries are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising will not be the identical all over the world as it is here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in the event you purchase a cheap metallic glitter it in all probability doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter too much if you're utilizing it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it issues so much if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!
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