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Paints Not all "low VOC" or "green" paints are created equal. Here is the difference: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a category of hundreds of chemicals. They bring “new car smell”, “new paint smell”, and other familiar odors. When VOCs react with air and sunlight they form ozone (smog), so the EPA regulates many of them. Therefore, products meeting a certain level can be labeled “low VOC”. However, many VOCs are not regulated and may not counted in a product's VOC reported calculations.
Additionally, VOCs aren’t the only chemicals you want to avoid. Other unregulated and exempted chemicals to be aware of:
And many low-odor paints simply contain masking agents to hide the odor.
And then, there is the colorant. It’s not just the paint base you want to be healthy. Our colorants have zero VOCs and zero Alkylphenol Ethoxylates (APE), which are surfactants (detergents) that can be oestrogenic (hormone disrupting) and bioaccumulative (they don’t break down in the environment and increase concentration up the food chain).
The paint systems we choose have none of these, creating the highest levels of health and performance—doing what paint is supposed to do.
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