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Eco Message

All Start from YOU!

Colorful paints give you inspiration; eye-catching paints create styles; brilliant paints bring new life to your place. If you own these paints at your home and office, it may be great but it is not enough in the 21st century. We believe that a qualify paint should also be harmless to your health and environmentally safe.

In Our Shop, you can find eco-products ranging from paints to DIY kits and paint products designed by our artists in every corner because we value the choice of living green and sustainably like you always do. Our paint products from Iceland and Sweden are all toxin free and VOC free (Volatile Organic Compound) and they are tested repeatedly to ensure they meet the legally enforceable standards of the World Health Organization (WHO).

What's wrong with the conventional paints and paints that are available in the market?

Conventional paints often contain different harmful chemicals, such as lead, ammonium, formaldehyde, titanium dioxide and VOC, that cause negative impacts to health and bring pollutants to the Earth. For VOC, the harmful chemicals can be released and pose threats to health even after a decade. Although the European Union (EU) has limited the use of these hazard substances in paints in recent years, spending long hours in rooms painted with these standard formulations can still make you suffer from allergies, dizziness, headaches, respiratory diseases, and even cancers.

You are too early to take a relief if you find the paints you bought with a VOC free label. Many paints in the market claimed to be VOC free but they may contain high levels of toxins and harmful chemicals. Hence, those paints are not any safer to you.

How about our paints?

In order to reduce air pollution to the environment and save precious resources on our planet, we only use clean energy, i.e. geothermal and hydropower, in our manufacturing process.

Less is more.

From the selection of materials to the production process, we never add any toxins and VOCs to our paints. Because of our careful consideration of your health and the indoor air quality (IAQ), our paints were certified by the University of Iceland after stringent independent tests. What’s more, our paints do not contain any irritants that cause asthma and allergies and that’s why our paints are favored by corporations and school projects from time to time.

Sometimes, beautiful things are not only skin deep. They can be as amazing as they look like. If you are still finding your ideal one, come find us and we will surprise you.

Think about your family, think about your pets, and think about our lovely planet. What can you do for them?

Come and visit Our Shop and you will know the answer as we always prepare the best for you.

一切由您開始!

色彩繽紛的油漆能帶給你靈感;炫人眼目的油漆有助展現你的個性;燦爛閃耀的油漆則為你所在的地方帶來生氣。你的家居和辦公室可能已經塗上這些油漆,但在我們身處的21世紀,這些美輪美奐的油漆已不足以滿足你所需。我們相信高質量的油漆不只著重於色彩,也需顧及你的健康和對環境的影響。

在我們店,你可以找到不同類型的環保產品,當中包括油漆、DIY套裝及由我們的藝術家所設計的油漆產品,因為我們和你一樣重視綠色生活的生活態度。我們售賣來自冰島和瑞典的無害油漆產品,它們皆符合世界衞生組織的指標,不含致癌物質(揮發性有機化合物),確保你的健康。

傳統油漆和普遍於市面找到的油漆有什麼問題?

大部份傳統油漆都含有有害的化學物質,包括:鉛、銨、甲醛、二氧化鈦和揮發性有機化合物。這些有害物質皆對人體有害,同時亦排放不少污染物危害生態環境。以揮發性有機化合物為例,它的釋放期可以長達十年,不容小覷。雖然近年歐洲聯盟(歐盟)對油漆中所含有的有害物質加以規管,但是長時間逗留於塗上這些合符標準的油漆的房間仍有機會令你引發敏感、頭暈、頭痛、呼吸道疾病,甚至得到癌症。

如果你發現你所購買的油漆只附上一個不含揮發性有機化合物的標籤,千萬不要過早鬆一口氣,因為市面上有很多不含揮發性有機化合物的油漆往往有其他高濃度的有毒物質。這些油漆也因此與傳統油漆無大異。

至於我們的油漆……

為了減少對環境的空氣污染和珍惜地球的寶貴資源,我們的油漆於整個生產過程都採用地熱和水力發電這兩種環保能源。

簡單也可以很美好

由選取材料到整個製作過程,我們都沒有添加任何有毒物質和揮發性有機化合物在油漆當中。我們對你的健康和室內空氣質素的重視令我們的油漆在經過重重嚴格和獨立的測試後得到冰島大學的專業認證。同時,不含引發哮喘和敏感的刺激化學物質亦使我們的油漆受到不同企業和辦學機構的青睞。

有時候,漂亮的東西不只流於表面,它們的內裏同樣令人讚嘆不已。若你還在尋找夢寐以求的它們,請找我們,我們定會為你帶來驚喜。

試想想,你可以為你的家庭、你的寵物、和我們可愛的星球做些甚麼?

你可以在我們的店找到答案,因為我們早已憂你之所憂,為你準備最好的一切。

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