The World’s Leading Eco-friendly Glitter Brand
Creators of the World’s first TÜV Fresh Water Certified Biodegradable Glitter

Bioglitter® PURE is the world’s first, certified fresh water biodegradable and microplastic free glitter. Based on natural materials, Bioglitter® PURE decomposes like a leaf in the natural environment to leave no trace.

TÜV Austria, OK Biodegradable WATER certification guarantees biodegradation in a natural, freshwater environment. This is the highest level of independent certification for fresh water biodegradability in the world. Bioglitter® PURE not only sets a new environmental standard for the glitter industry; with being soft to the touch it’s more comfortable on the skin and being aluminium free it offers a completely new look.

Recently winning the ‘Green and Sustainability’ category in PCHI Fountain Awards China 2019 and Gold for innovation at in-cosmetics global 2018, the world’s most prestigious cosmetic raw material exhibition Cosmetic Bioglitter® PURE is a true revolution for the glitter industry, the first ‘Guilt Free Glitter’.

Although designed for use in cosmetics, it’s robust enough to use in household, coating, printing and decorative applications. We are proud to say we have created the most eco-friendly glitter in the world.

• Certified OK Biodegradable WATER by TÜV, Austria
• Guaranteed biodegradation in a natural, freshwater environment
• Compliant with global cosmetic and rinse off legislation
• Including the use on lips in the USA

The original game changer, Bioglitter® SPARKLE, is the first product we developed and is the brightest glitter in the Bioglitter® family.

Indistinguishable from traditional plastic glitter, Bioglitter® SPARKLE, like Bioglitter® PURE, is based on plant material rather than plastic and it will naturally degrade in the environment.

Containing only a small amount of plastic and with its PROVEN high biodegradation performance in freshwater, only 3% off meeting the performance criteria for OK Biodegradable WATER certification, apart from Cosmetic Bioglitter® PURE, it is still the most eco-friendly glitter on the market.

In January 2021 our new ‘Bioglitter™ SPARKLE GC’ product ranges will become available. ‘Bioglitter™ SPARKLE GC’ products are TÜV ‘OK biodegradable WATER’ certified. The coating in the new ‘Bioglitter™ SPARKLE GC’ products removes the acrylate plastic applied to the film, enabling the product to achieve the coveted fresh water biodegradable certification from TÜV.

Bioglitter® SPARKLE is also multi award-winning; winner of the ‘Green and Sustainability’ category in PCHI Fountain Awards China 2019 and Gold for innovation at in-cosmetics global 2017, the year prior to Cosmetic Bioglitter® PURE. No other company has won gold in successive years at in-cosmetics global.

Bioglitter® SPARKLE is available in three different grades; Cosmetic - for cosmetics and personal care, Deco - for the coatings and fashion industry and Craft - for children and education.

Bioglitter™ is an eco-friendly alternative to plastic based glitter and has been developed to tackle microplastic pollution created by glitter.  The Bioglitter™ brand is often misunderstood as being just a biodegradable glitter,  however, it represents much more than that.

Completely unique, Bioglitter^™, uses natural and plant-derived, polymer material as it’s basis that are proven to biodegrade in the natural environment, rather than polymers that do not biodegrade in the natural environment and contribute to microplastic pollution.  All Bioglitter^™  products have been tested and PROVEN to biodegrade into harmless substances in the natural environment.

Our ultimate goal being Certified OK Biodegradable WATER by TÜV, which means guaranteed biodegradation in a natural, freshwater environment.  This is the highest level of independent certification for fresh water biodegradability in the world.  Our latest product range Bioglitter^™ PURE boasts this accolade.

Bioglitter™ replaces the core polyester film used in traditional glitter with a unique and special form of cellulose from hardwoods, primarily eucalyptus sourced from responsibly managed and certified plantations operating to PEFC™ www.pefc.org standards.  This core in its own right possesses excellent eco-credentials, in it being biodegradable in all environments; certified industrial and home compostable, approved soil, wastewater, freshwater and marine biodegradable.

As we progress along the Bioglitter™ journey with our latest product, Bioglitter™ PURE, we now use a new environmentally friendly coating based on natural polymers to produce a glitter which is scientifically qualified, not microplastic, by its natural, freshwater biodegradable certification.  These are eco-credentials never achieved before in the glitter industry.

There are two key ultimate goals we are driving to achieve with all Bioglitter™ products;
1 – Removing the none biodegradable polymers; So it’s not a microplastic.
2 – Certified biodegradable in the natural environment; Independent, trusted scientific proof of performance.

Our latest award-winning product, Cosmetic Bioglitter™ PURE, is our first product range to reach this goal.  TUV OK Biodegradable WATER certified, which guarantees biodegradation in a natural, freshwater environment.  If a glitter is NOT certified OK Biodegradable WATER, then it contains microplastic.

Bioglitter™ SPARKLE, our first award-winning product, already has most of its non-biodegradable polymer content removed and fresh water testing proves it is very close to meeting biodegradable in freshwater certified status.  Nevertheless, we are continuing with its development to remove the last bits of microplastic and achieve TUV OK Biodegradable WATER, meeting our goals.

Don’t be fooled or ‘greenwashed’ into paying the premium for an ‘environmentally friendly’ glitter, when it could be no better than plastic.

Words can be cheap when it comes to making ‘green’ claims.  Without qualification of the time, quantity and environment, through testing, the term ‘Biodegradable’ is meaningless. Equally claiming % biodegradability or theoretical biodegradable content without any test data is no better. After all, everything is degradable given enough time!

Even ‘plastic-free’ claims are open to exaggeration or totally false claims.  Interpretations of what is plastic and not plastic can be very varied.  Biodegradability testing to prove a polymer biodegrades in the natural, fresh water environments is the only way to tell if a polymer is considered microplastic or not.

Clarity, openness and trust are the very reasons why we qualify and substantiate our claims through testing.  We go one step further; by gaining certification to confirm the validity of the test results via a third-party expert in the field, that trusted secure and hard to cheat such as TÜV.

The good news on qualifying plastic claims; ECHA’s new Microplastic Proposal, Jan 2019 provides an objective and measured way, through qualified biodegradability testing, to verify if a product is a microplastic or not!  It’s simple, if a glitter does NOT have a OK Biodegradable WATER certificate it contains microplastic.