When most people think of glitter they think of messy childrens projects and random sparkles. But did you know that in the glitter market, there are many odd usages that many people would never imagine. For example, 48% of all the glitter in the world bought per year is by the U.S. government for explosives and non-slick tires for transportation.
Also 23% of all the glitter is used in boat paint, which kind of makes sense because cruise ships use glitter paint on the hull of the ship. The usage of the sparkly paint also makes sense because they probably don’t want fish running into the boats when they are using the boats.
To continue, toothpaste takes up 9% because it is more visually appealing for people and glitter toothpaste makes companies like Colgate make more money per year than their other toothpaste.