Children's paint is too expensive to make sense Industry insiders say it is impossible to be completely non-toxic

China Paint Network
News: Recently, is renovating a new house in Guangdong Shantou Zhou is ready to buy
paint
, after a circle, she found that there are many businesses in the market now launched children's paint, specially designed for children's rooms, children's furniture. Merchants say "environmentally friendly than other similar products", but the price is also a lot more expensive. So, where is the price of children's paint? Is it really as safe and non-toxic as the merchant claims?
statistics show that indoor decoration pollution is very easy to cause harm to children's health. Among all kinds of decoration materials, paint is the biggest hidden danger. This makes Ms. Zhou, who is renovating her new house, decide to bite her teeth and buy more "environmentally friendly" children's paint.
considering her 3-year-old daughter, Ms. Zhou strictly requires environmental factors when selecting decoration materials. "Recently there have been too many reports about formaldehyde exceeding the standard of decoration materials and benzene exceeding the standard, so I'm afraid to look at it, and I'd rather spend more money to ensure the environment at home." When it comes to buying building materials, Ms. Zhou admits that she has a bit of "child control", but she will give priority to anything with the word "children". Ms. Zhou initially intended to paint her daughter's room with children's paint, but later, under the strong publicity of the sales staff, decided that the whole family used children's paint, even if it cost more money does not matter.
in some
paint
paint shop found that a number of paint dealers have called children-specific paint for sale. Some claim to be effective in removing formaldehyde, while others indicate on the promotional page that the product has a strong "debenzene" capability. All kinds of functions are around the word "environmental protection" to do the article. However, a careful comparison of the composition of ordinary paint and children's paint found that both are composed of acrylic emulsions, lead-free pigments, etc. , ordinary consumers with the naked eye can not see the difference.
and children's paints are not sold at a low price. At a brand paint store on Lushan Road in Shantou City, a 5-liter bamboo charcoal-free children's paint sold for 788 yuan, about double the price of the brand's five-in-one non-added wall paint.
are children's paints expensive?
paint agent
almost identical answer: children's paint is safer and more environmentally friendly. As for the corresponding test reports or data, they are often not available. The inspection found that in 2008 the introduction of "indoor decoration materials
built-in wall paint
in the limit of harmful substances", which does not have children's paint-related norms. In fact, the domestic controversy over children's paint has long been there. In October 2012, the Zhejiang Environmental Monitoring Center tested four children's paints at different prices, and the results showed that children's paints declared "zero pollution" also contained VOC (volatile organic compounds), formaldehyde and other pollutants.
, who has more than ten years of local paint distribution experience, said that children's paint is a manufacturer out of marketing needs, to cater to consumers in the decoration process of children's safety and health pay special attention to the psychology and hype of a business concept. "Children's paint and ordinary interior wall
water-based paint
is not very different, from the environmental index alone, it can be said that there is no difference, and on the current level of production technology, children's paint simply can not be completely non-toxic."