Many painters think that are doing their clients a favor by using and recommending these products, which often come with a premium price tag.

However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded a 2003 comprehensive study of infection control practice with the statement that “No evidence is available to suggest that use of these [antimicrobial] products will make consumers and patients healthier or prevent disease. No data support the use of these items as part of a sound infection-control strategy.” Kaiser Permanente similarly concluded in a December 2006 position statement that “[we] do not recommend environmental surface finishes or fabrics that contain antimicrobials for the purpose of greater infection control and the subsequent prevention of hospital acquired infections. There is no evidence that environmental surface finishes or fabrics containing antimicrobials assist in preventing infections.”

Is this another example of manufacturers feeding us spin? What we need are less chemicals in our paint, not more! What do you think?

Some hormonally active chemicals appear to pose little if any risk of cancer. And as Lindeman and Burlington discovered, such chemicals are typically not poisons in the normal sense. Until we recognize this, we will be looking in the wrong places asking the wrong questions, and talking at cross-purposes.

Hormones and their receptors fit together with a “lock and key” mechanism. Under normal conditions a natural hormone binds to its receptor and activates genes in the Nucleus to produce the appropriate biological response. Hormone mimics and blockers can contribute to disruption of cellular activity.

Based on the warnings from wildlife and lab animals, what kinds of problems should we expect? Earlier chapters explored how hormonally active synthetic chemicals can damage the reproductive system, alter the nervous system and brain, and impact the immune system.

Animals contaminated by these chemicals show various behavioural effects, including aberrant mating behaviour and increased parental neglect of nests. Synthetic chemicals can derail the normal expression of sexual characteristics of animals, in some cases masculinising females and feminizing males. Some animal studies indicate that exposure to hormonally active chemicals prenatally or in adulthood increases vulnerability to hormone-responsive cancers, such as malignancies in the breast, prostate, ovary and uterus.

Ref.: Our Stolen Future

Very little is yet known about acceptable concentrations and exposure levels of any of the new pollutants, or about what may constitute and “unreasonable risk”. A manufacturer’s evaluation should be subject to checks and final approval by independent government bodies, which should also monitor the substances uses and concentrations. Most governments, however, cannot keep pace with the deluge of new chemicals and controls are weakening despite efforts by consumer and pressure groups.

Ref.: The Natural House Book

Natural Paint or Organic Paints or Non Toxic* Paints or Low VOC Paints or Environmentally or Eco-friendly paints

You will find these entire features in our product range:

1)      Bio Wall Paint interior and exterior

2)      Bio Enamel Lacquer interior and exterior

3)      Bio Varnishes interior and exterior

4)      Bio Oils and Waxes

5)      Bio Thinner and Care Products

Our main goal is to supply to you products made from natural and

Non toxic ingredients

a)  which are gentle to the earth

b)  which are of renewable materials like plant oils, resins, waxes and pigments.

Are they different to use to conventional products: NO

Each product has its own characteristics.

The wall paints have a high hiding power, are scrub and washable and have an extreme low VOC.  They are water vapour permeable, which improves your room climate. You can also create your own colour scheme.

Bio’s enamel paint increases the look of your doors; architraves etc. and give it a tough surface.

Varnishes have been around of centuries to enhance and protect timber in clear and stain finishes.

Become an artisan for the most natural finishes on timber with oils and waxes. There are no boundaries.

At last not least a substitute for mineral turps. A lemon peel oil based product and a few maintenance products to keep your home beautiful.

After using these products your home will look beautiful and will have a healthy individual look.

*In context to paint products

We all try to have healthy food, healthy clothing, build mud brick homes and yet we have a high pollution inside of our homes.  Why is that? We buy products where we do not know the ingredients and slowly unwanted chemicals are creeping into our home. One source may be paint you buy in a hardware shop. The indoor pollution can be 1o times higher than outside.!!!

Nearly five out of ten children suffer from allergies and will become a burden for the family and our medical system in the future.

Remember the days when painting was safe and simple! Well times have changed and today we know that conventional paints – solvent and water –based paints – can have several unwanted (toxic) ingredients like preservatives, solvents, additives, coal tire pigments, resins etc.

At Bio Products Australia we have the expertise to provide you with information why “Natural Paint Products” are better for your family and the environment. Natural paint products are predominately made from chemicals found in food ingredients such as linseed oil, safflower oil and in minerals.

So, if you are concerned about your health or allergies of your family and friends, BIO’s range of products could be exactly what you are looking for- and the colour range is a delight for your eyes.

For further information contact Bio Natural Paint Plus  Tel. 08-83391923

Paint Linked to Allergy Risks in Pre-School Age Children

A new study has found that children who sleep in bedrooms containing fumes from water-based paints and solvents are two to four times more likely to suffer allergies or asthma.

The study, published in the journal of the Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, analysed chemical compounds – propylene glycol and glycol ethers, known as PGEs – in the bedroom air of 400 toddlers and preschoolers. Researchers found that higher concentrations of these chemicals were linked with substantially higher rates of asthma, stuffy noses and eczema.

The research was a collaboration between scientists at Harvard University and Sweden’s Kalstad University. The study followed 198 children in Varmland, Sweden, between the ages of 1 and 5 who had asthma or at least two symptoms or wheezing or rhinitis (nasal allergies) without a cold or eczema in the previous year, as well as 202 children with no symptoms.

The children with nasal allergies tended to have a PGE concentration in their bedrooms that was twice as high as the concentration found in rooms of the children with no symptoms. The higher the dose, the more likely the children were to suffer from rhinitis, asthma, or eczema, even when concentrations were low.

Children in bedrooms with the highest concentrations were 4.2 times more likely to have rhinitis, twice as likely to have asthma and 2.5 times more likely to have eczema, compared with children with the lowest concentrations in their rooms

A history of repainting at least one room in the house pre- or post-natal to the birth of the child was associated with a 63% increase in mean PGEs compared to those who never repainted. Thus, repainting might have provided a sustained exposure since the gestational period or shortly following the birth. And nobody has ever looked into that how much damaged it can make to your health as an adult.

Propylene glycol and glycol ethers are a diverse group of compounds with superior solvent and coalescent properties. Due to their lower volatility and higher degree of solvency, they are widely used in water-based paint and not counted as solvents according to the regulations. Again a gap for conventional paint manufacturer to marked their products as solvent free!

But there is help! BIO’s Wall paint for living rooms, bed rooms and children rooms is solvent free and made from natural and nontoxic ingredients.

Ask for FREE Information, Colour Chart and Brochure NOW.

They are ideally suited for harsh weathering conditions and todays environmental problems have led to increasing demands for environmentally harmless, long lasting and high quality paints. This is the reason why increasing numbers of architects throughout the world recommend the use of Silicate Mineral Paint and because of its flexible range of colours and its ease of use.

What are silicate mineral paints?

The raw material come directly from the mineral word : the binder is potassium waterglass. J.W.v.Goethe described it in 1768 as “liquor silicium” which emerges if one melts pure quartz sand with an adequate proportion of alkali, whereby a transparent glass is obtained which melts in connection with oxygen and gives a beautiful clear liquidity. The pigments are earth minerals and iron oxides; the fillers are marble dust etc. Only a small fraction of the raw material are derived from the living nature. These are used to help regulate the process of production. After application the paint penetrates and chemically reacts with the mineral substrate onto which it is applied. It becomes part of the surface whereas organic paints merely form a skin on the surface. The high water vapour permeability of the silicate mineral paint, due to the crystalline nature, ensures that humidity which is present in the masonry can freely pass out from the building structure. The breath ability of the building structure is maintained. Also light rays and thermal rays are reflected and this reduces the thermal stress on the building structure and thereby prevents the substrate from cracking.

Set some silicate rock and some synthetic material out exposed to the weather. After five years, the man-made material has been highly degraded and has released chemicals, some of which are highly toxic, into the environment. The rock is still there, hardly changed. This is reason enough to use silicate mineral paint on severely weathered surfaces.

Where are silicate mineral paint used?

Silicate mineral paints protect and add colour to exterior and interior walls of a mineral basis. From old baroque or stucco houses to new cinderblock or cement buildings, the mineral facades can be painted with silicate mineral paints. It allows the building to breathe, eliminating blistering, cracking, or peeling.

 BIOFA Silicate paint offers many advantages:

• long lasting durability
• economical
• easy to use
• non toxic to the environment
• contains no solvents except for pure water
• binds chemically to mineral surfaces
• extraordinarily breathing paint
• stable colours, even over many years, excellent light fastness
• they do not peel
• they are non flammable
• they act fungicidal, due to their alkaline nature.

The following products are available:

• Euromin SILICATE  PAINT, the basic silicate paint
• Euromin SILICATE FIXATIVE, is the thinner and primer for Euromin  SILICATE PAINT

The study, published in the journal of the Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, analyzed chemical compounds – propylene glycol and glycol ethers, known as PGEs – in the bedroom air of 400 toddlers and preschoolers. Researchers found that higher concentrations of these chemicals were linked with substantially higher rates of asthma, stuffy noses and eczema

Propylene glycol and glycol ethers are a diverse group of compounds with superior solvent and coalescent properties. Due to their lower volatility and higher degree of solvency, they are widely used in water-based paint.

We all try to have healthy food, healthy clothing, build mud brick homes and yet we

 have a high pollution inside of our homes.  Why is that? We buy products where we do not know the ingredients and slowly unwanted chemicals are creeping into our home. One source may be paint you buy in a hardware shop. The indoor pollution can be 1o times higher than outside.!!!

When the government regulated the solvents(VOC) the thought of the emission into the environment, but they did not think about your HEALTH!

Now the ugly solvents are coming into your home/office/workplace like ammonia or NMP(N-Mehtyl-2-pyrrolidane).

Find out about our healthy alternative Paint Products made from natural and non toxic ingredients. Contact us now!

We wish you a safe future!

Thank you for sending the varnish & thinners both of which I am able to tolerate, thank goodness, even though I am an acutely allergic person. I am ordering some paint & more varnish.

Your paint is such a joy to use. NO headaches and our home is looking lovely.

Heather McDonald, Norwood

I have used in the past your Japanese Seedlac product and with this did a lot of french polishing. Your product IS JUST superb and a superior product to all others I have tried.

In those days I lived in Adelaide but I am now based in Tasmania.

Could you please advise if your product is available anywhere in this State and if not is it possible to arrange to have this product sent.

Thank you, I would appreciate your advice as to how I can obtain this product. It is a wonderful product!

With kind regards,

Sue Burnside