Green Planet Paints are fundamentally unique. While there are many zero VOC paints on the market today, Green Planet Paints is the first to move beyond petroleum toward a truly sustainable paint based on plant resins and mineral pigments.

You have many options to select from - paint finishes include Flat and Eggshell, with 48 Colors.

This is where Green Planet Paints is different. They have made three key choices in formulating their paint:
1. To move beyond petroleum, using plant-based binders and additives.
2. To minimize additives and not over-formulate, which not only creates more synthetic products in our waste stream, but takes the life out of the paint.
3. To use mineral pigments that are produced with low energy processes, resulting in unique, lightfast colors, in a simple, easy to use color palette based on the colors of nature.

Things you should know about traditional paints:
* Human Health. Commercial paints can contain up to 1500 different petrochemicals, many of which are harmful. Most of these chemicals, but not all, are regulated by the EPA using the term VOC (volatile organic compounds.) This definition is somewhat misleading though, as not all harmful paint chemicals fall under the VOC definition. Furthermore, the EPA allows up to 5 mg/liter of VOCs in the zero VOC rating.
* Planet. VOCs not only contribute to smog, they are also potent greenhouse gases. With the huge amounts of energy needed to drill, ship, and refine petroleum into components for paint, petroleum-based paints are simply not sustainable.
* Beauty.  Petroleum-based paints, being synthetic and highly processed, produce colors that lack natural complexity and all too often look and feel lifeless.  

Most paint companies, in attempting to green their paints, have focused on the human health aspects, removing particular additives so as to meet low and zero VOC criteria established  by the EPA. Yet their paints are still petroleum-based, with pigment, binder and additive remaining synthetic.
 
NOTE *** These color samples are only APPROXIMATIONS of the true colors. Every computer screen is different so everyone see the colors in different shades. Please order a color sheet or order 4 oz. samples to ensure you end up with a color you are satisfied with. ***