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Nature's Pallete Range from Henry Haymes Paint
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A breath of fresh air from Haymes. An environmentally friendly, low VOC paint.
Why use Haymes Nature's Palette?
Nature's Palette is an environmentally friendly paint that has been manufactured under waste wise production processes with careful consideration for user health and comfort. To ensure that users suffer minimal discomfort, Nature’s Palette is greater than 99% VOC free and is manufactured using low odour raw materials and no added solvent.
Key Features of Nature's Palette
- Premium Quality
- Environmentally friendly
- Virtually no fumes or odour
- Greater than 99% VOC free
- Washable and Stain Resistant
- Minimal roller splatter
- Water wash up
In April 2008, Good Environmental Choice Australia verified all 3 Nature's Palette Products to be compliant with the requirements of GECA 23-2005 Architectural and Protective Coatings standard.
Nature's Palette is available as a Sealer Undercoat, Low Sheen Acrylic (for broad wall areas) and a Ceiling White.
Tinting Nature's Palette
Nature’s Palette is greater than 99% VOC free and contains no added solvent or materials that contribute to greenhouse gas formation, so it is safe for you and safe for the environment. The tinting of Haymes Nature’s Palette Range will contribute to an increase of VOC levels in the product.
Please note: Haymes tinters do not contain ethylene glycol or other toxic substances.
What are VOCs?
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. They include a variety of chemicals that may have short term and long term adverse health effects. VOC’s are reported to be in higher concentrations (up to ten times higher) indoors than outdoors. This large amounts of indoor VOC’s now effect many offices by causing Sick Building Syndrome.
Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is used to describe the situation in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to the amount of time spent in a building. No particular illness can be diagnosed but repeated symptoms occur and only dissipate when time is spent out of the building.
Sources of VOC's
There are thousands of products that emit VOC’s, many are human made chemicals that are used and produced in the manufacture of paints, pharmaceuticals and refrigerants. Other common products that produce VOCs include printing inks, glues, dry cleaning solvents, petroleum fuels and crude oil tanking.
Environmental Effects
The environmental effects of VOCs depend on the composition of the VOCs in question. While some are beneficial to the upper atmosphere by producing greenhouse gases that in turn create the ozone that protects us from UV rays. There are many that form in the lower atmosphere which can then create the effect of smog, thus causing respiratory problems for humans. In liquid forms VOCs can impact our water ways and soil.
Contributions to Indoor Air Pollution
The effects of Sick building syndrome are often felt when the indoor air quality is seriously diminished due to high amounts of VOC’s. The VOC’s can be released from many household products when they are in use, or to some extent when they are stored. Common household products can include paint, cleaning products, disinfectants, cosmetics,. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found concentrations of VOC’s in indoor air to be 2 to 5 times greater than in outdoor air. During certain activities indoor levels of VOC’s may reach 1,000 times that of the outside air.