Clean
air
The difference is simple: clean air. Clean air that
your whole family can feel comfortable breathing into
their lungs while they sleep. Clean air that, if it
were carrying fumes from conventional home decorating
products, could harbour odourless yet harmful toxic
emissions for many years. As a result, natural paints
don’t tend to cause allergies, asthma, or skin
irritations, not to mention the nausea, headaches and
nervous system disorders often caused by fumes of synthetic
ingredients in many conventional products. And, dried
remains of these natural products can be safely disposed
of with regular household garbage, without harming groundwater
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The
healthy difference
Natural paints make a healthy difference. Safe to use,
safe to throw away, with excellent quality and coverage.
Natural paints promote healthy living by eliminating
toxic fumes, providing beautiful colour and care, and
improving indoor air quality. What’s more, most
natural paints are 100% biodegradable. Most chemical
paints, lacquers and varnishes fall far short of these
yardsticks. They contain unstable chemical compounds
that release gas when they are applied, when they dry,
and some of them continue releasing poisons for years
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Great
colours:
They are available in a range of beautiful, vibrant
colours, either pre-mixed or using natural pigments,
and the colour range keeps on expanding! (See
our colours page)
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Anti-static
properties:
They act anti-statically. Synthetic paint ingredients
are electrically charged and use plastic, this means
they attract dust and bacteria. Whilst natural paints
use plant resins and other ingredients which repel dust
and bacteria, enhancing the room climate and keeping
their true colour for years to come.go
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Micro-porous
Natural paints are micro-porous, meaning moisture is
allowed to pass through them, whilst remaining waterproof.
This is akin to a built-in ventilation system, ensuring
there is always fresh air in the building. It also allows
the building to regulate its moisture content making
it difficult for mould to form. When moisture is trapped
beneath a paint skin (one of the main causes of coating
failure), blistering occurs – a micro-porous paint
allows this moisture to escape and reduces paint flaking.
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Safe
As Houses
BIOFA & AURO supply eggshell, undercoat and water-based
varnish that is DIN 53 160 certified for colour fastness
when exposed to perspiration and saliva and DIN EN 71
Part 3 certified as suitable for toys.
These European norms deem that surfaces treated with
natural raw materials such as vegetable oils and natural
resins, when dry, are physiologically safe.
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Less
pollution:
Studies show that up to 90% of the internal surface
area of a building may have a synthetic covering. The
indoor environment can be up to ten times more polluted
than the external environment, yet we spend up to 80%
of our time indoors.
In paint, varnish and cleaning product manufacturing,
about 15.000 different chemicals are used, with 300
added to that number every year, only a few of which
are fully understood. (See our VOC’s
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Natural
Paints:
need solvents just in the same way that standard paints
do. The difference is that truly natural paints use
plant oils rather than petrochemical products. You probably
disapprove of 'gas sniffing', think about what you and
your family are doing every time you paint a room!go
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Natural
ingredients:
They are made from fully renewable natural ingredients
that disrupt the eco-system as little as possible. Natural
paints usually have a linseed oil base possibly combined
with other high quality plant oils and extracts, resins,
pigments, and solvents such as genuine oil of turpentine
which makes coatings that are both flexible and biodegradable.
This results in products that disrupt the eco-system
as little as possible, while not using valuable and
finite resources such as crude oil. go
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Naturally
made:
Natural paints are manufactured according to the principles
of "Gentle Chemistry". A considerable part
of the production does not take place in a factory,
but inside living plants. Solar energy leads to photosynthesis
which gives us a dearth of natural substances, with
low energy input and without hazardous waste.
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Low
VOC’s:
They produce very little in the way of persistent Volatile
Organic Compounds (VOC’s). Because they are free
from harmful substances they do not ’offgas,’
making these paints great for everyone, meaning you
and your family! The chemically-sensitive, and those
who suffer from allergies benefit too. Better for you,
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Formulations
Modern natural paints are similar in appearance and
ease of application to their conventional petrochemical
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Environment
Manufacturers of natural paints take all aspects of
the environment seriously and they keep all energy use,
waste and pollution to a minimum. Auro for example,
have their own linseed oil farmed 30km from their Braunschweig
factory.
In stark contrast some petrochemical paints are notoriously
wasteful, producing up to ten times their own weight
in waste. For example, for each tonne of paint, 10 tonnes
of toxic waste is created! This can rise to as high
as 30 tonnes of waste for some speciality paints. The
manufacture and use of synthetic paints worldwide causes
nearly as much pollution as vehicle exhausts.
Paints, lacquers and varnishes are among the chemical
everyday products that have a particularly distinct
effect on environment and health. Solvents, monomers,
softening agents, and biocides are only some of the
components of these products that present the potential
for serious ecological and toxicological risks during
their production, manufacture, application, use, and
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Happy
to use
ecoartisan happily uses materials supplied from the
leading manufacturers of natural paints and wood finishes
including Auro, Aquamarijn, Biofa, Holkham, Holzweg,
Livos and Tierrafino.Make the right choice – purify
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