100% expensive, children's paint value is not worth it?

China Paint Network
News: summer vacation to, a new round of children's room decoration needs also immediately came into being - many children are about to go to school, because they grow up, the original use of the way will be different, facing functional adjustment, change decoration style and other issues. During the renovation process, repainting the walls is a common choice for many parents. However, recently, reporters visited the home store learned that specifically for children's rooms to use the children's
spatry price
is expensive, its price than the same brand, the same "excellent products" products, up to nearly 100% more expensive. Children
paint
is really a penny, the more expensive the better? How do consumers choose? What is the difference between children's paint and common paint?
into the home store, children's paint many "new concepts" dazzling: "effective decomposition of formaldehyde," "bamboo charcoal decomposition of formaldehyde," "anti-child allergic asthma," "zero formaldehyde," "pure no addition" ... According to incomplete statistics of reporters, now some conventional home stores, there are more than 30
paint enterprises
the introduction of children's concept paint products.
reporter visited the paint market found that when the paint was marked as "children-only", the price immediately doubled. Take a foreign well-known brand of products, for example, in general paint, the most expensive lotus net taste five-in-one wall paint 5l folding price of 543 yuan, and children's paint for 999 yuan. Another well-known foreign brand of full-effect bamboo charcoal children's paint 5l sold for 899 yuan, not specifically for children's bamboo charcoal fresh house five-in-one interior wall
latex paint
5l sold for 459 yuan, a difference of 96% between the two prices.
, however, from the product appearance logo shows the main parameters, the reporter did not find that children's paint and general paint on the environmental indicators of how different. Why is the spread so staggering?
sales staff explained: "General coatings may have formaldehyde and other additives, but children's paint is made of water solvents, no formaldehyde, benzene and other volatile substances, after painting can maintain the safety of indoor air." "But is there really a difference between having one of the highest-end non-children's paints in the field that is also labeled "No addition, true clean taste, ultra-environmental protection"? The salesp person didn't say anything about it. Similarly, in more brand stores, sales staff on the characteristics of children's paint, but only give a "more environmentally friendly", "scrub-resistant performance better" and so on.
why can't so many salespeopears say anything about children's paint? This is because China's children's paint so far there is no standard, businesses are naturally divided. A
coating network
related to the person in charge of the introduction, the current domestic and children's paint-related standards only by the Shanghai Chemical Building Materials Industry Association issued by the "children's water-based
inner wall paint
specification", the specification was implemented on October 1, 2014, it was proposed by the Association, Shanghai Municipal Consumer Protection Commission, Shanghai Institute of Building Science and other 18 units involved in drafting. However, since it is only a local standard, the role of demonstration is limited.
In addition, some large paint companies will be based on their own standards to produce children's paint, it may be higher than the standard of ordinary paint, but corporate standards are generally not published, so ordinary consumers have no way to know. Moreover, due to the lack of national standards in the children's paint market, there is no basis for supervision and sampling of this product.
there is no national standard, but children's paint in the market has attracted much attention. Now the public more and more attention to environmental protection issues, coupled with the increase in childhood leukaemia patients, but also let people pay special attention to the environmental protection of children's room decoration, children's paint swarmed out, it is from
paint manufacturers
to see the psychological needs of parents.
many high-end brands now offer children's paints, which are much more expensive than general coatings.
sales staff say that children's products voc (volatile organic compounds) and free formaldehyde emissions are lower, more environmentally friendly and safer. Its scrub resistance is better than other products, can be in line with the child's love of painting on the wall nature.
However, the product description of voc, free formaldehyde and other indicators of the test results, many general coatings and children's paint are labeled as "uncensasted", which is very different from the sales staff said "far from". "At this stage, children's paint is more of a gimmick." An expert at the Paint Association, who did not want to be named, said.