Plastic does not belong to the paint

The plastic -free paint respects the environment, the tradition and the residents of the house

Uula Color paints are 100 % plastic. Our paints have never contained plastic and will not contain, because we think plastic is not part of the paint. It is harmful not only to the environment but also to wood, as when forming a dense film on the surface of the wood, it does not allow moisture to leave the structures. If the tree does not dry, it will decay.

Uula paints and treatment products are made from renewable natural oils such as linseed oil . When oxidizing, linseed oil converts the paint film into a water vapor that permeates the surface that breathes as required by the tree. The moisture can evaporate, the paint does not hatch and the wood does not rot.

Plastic is an unsustainable raw material as a non-renewable raw material. Plant -based products have been very useful for people in over a hundred years of history, but now we know more confidently than ever what devastating consequences for our environment. Linen is a modest plant that can do well with low nutrients and water, growing in the summer and returns to the earth in the fall. And leave no waste.

Not only plastic -free but also water -borne

The paint usually consists of four major groups: the binder that has the highest number of raw materials, solvent, pigment and additives. The binder is a fluid that, when dry on the surface to be painted, becomes solid, thus binding itself and pigments to the painted surface.

The binders of traditional paints have always been plastic -free; linseed oil, trawl or whale fat, lime or, for example, a cheese of milk. Oil paints were already used in ancient times to decorate and protect objects, and the first Finnish buildings were painted with a cooking paint in the 17th century. It was not until the 1960s, as petroleum refines became more common, the derivatives of petroleum were also used as paint binders, and very quickly they took the market so it was difficult to find plastic-free paints. Uula Color was born for this need.

Because we are committed to using only renewable natural oils as binders in our goals, our product development began to consider how we would produce a water -borne oil paint. A paint that is still natural oil -based and plastic, but also odorless, emission -free and quickly drying. This is how our water -borne indoor oil series was born. Although they are developed for modern needs, our water -borne interior paints are already available in many churches, decorative paintings in Helsinki's value buildings, and the interior walls of the Versailles Palace and the Louvre Art Museum. At home, they are not only easy, fast and safe to use, they allow both the home and its residents to breathe, healthy.

Sources:

Kaila, Panu: Spring brought a painter
. Traditional exterior painting. Gummerus, Jyväskylä 2000 Kaila, Panu: House Doctor. Builder little giant. Werner Söderström, Porvoo 1997
Koskela, Kari: Traditional paints and structural protection of the wooden house. Kopijävä, Jyväskylä 2003