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Natural
Paint and Environmentally Friendly Paint labelling
Most countries now have legislation in place to label particular
products as environmentally friendly and only those products
that meet certain quality criteria are allowed to use the
term environmentally friendly on their packaging and advertising.
Most Natural Paint manufacturers around the world have not
participated in these government and industry lead schemes
for three reasons: In many cases the government agencies or
institutes issuing the environmentally friendly product classifications
charge extremely high annual fees to maintain the certification
for each product sold and many natural paint manufacturers
are smaller operations. And more importantly most legislation
for environmentally friendly paint labelling does not concern
itself with the elimination of chemicals know to be toxic
but with the reduction to sometimes arbitrary thresholds.
Most natural paint manufacturers on the other hand do not
use any amount of these toxic substances in their products.
Another concern to natural paint manufacturers is the key
environmental aspect of sustainability of production which
the environmentally friendly paint labelling does not address.
Most natural paint manufacturers rely on renewable resources
harvested and grown in an ecologically sound way for their
raw materials.
Check our links section for the DEFRA’s pitching green
page. This is a good guideline as to how European labelling
will work.
Pretty flowers, pictures of blue angels and highly official
quality labels are supposed to infer qualities from nature
and help to avoid a detailed declaration of the ingredients.
Probably for good reason since it would read like a page taken
from a chemicals catalogue.
The products used by ecoartisan in your home are truly natural.
Click here for the PDF guide to European Eco-labelling
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