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Breathable Paint is Healthy Paint

Rid Your Home of Harmful Chemicals

Our mission is to produce exquisite natural paints which are breathable, healthy and help you to protect your family or workforce from chemically induced ailments. As we use more and more chemicals in our daily life the human body is reacting against the side effects.

The passive inhalation of unseen fumes from synthetic products means that ‘standard’ petrochemical products have become prime suspects in the rise of unexplained allergies, ME, asthma, eczema and other ailments. 75% of internal surfaces are covered in applied coatings and as we now spend almost 80% of our time indoors, internal pollution is considered a serious threat to human health and one of the likely causes of the explosion in the incidence of allergies.  Listing chemicals on all packaging should be a minimum requirement. If it is not the maker’s responsibility, then whose is it? If it is not on the tin, then why not?

In the same way that we nourish our bodies with healthy food, now is the time to nourish our homes with healthy natural paint!

Breathable Paint

Our paint is microporous which means it allows walls and woodwork to breathe naturally. Acrylic paints use petrochemically derived binders that form a clingfilm like layer on the surface of walls when the paint dries which traps moisture in and causing mould. Instead, our wall paints use binders made from plants that allow the flow of air and moisture as nature intended! Our breathable paint will allow the natural moisture that is in the walls and atmosphere to flow through without damaging the building.

We are proud to create a superior quality, water based, natural paint which gives a luxury, chalky matt finish which will bring your walls alive.  The aesthetically low sheen expected from a premium paint combined with an unmatched depth of colour is simply achieved by using natural pigments and non plastic binders with no need for microbeads.

Read our blog HERE to find out more about breathable paint.

We are proud to declare everything at Edward Bulmer Natural Paint

At Edward Bulmer Natural Paint we provide you with an honest declaration of ALL our ingredients.  We can even tell you precisely how they are produced and from what country they are sourced. Our paint is made from naturally occurring raw materials of plant origin like linseed oil, or from mineral raw materials such as chalk, earth and mineral pigments. We do not use dangerous solvents, pesticides, herbicides or toxins.

We have extremely low  VOC levels (0.07%) which we believe is unrivalled. This is because we make our paint free from any toxic chemicals or synthetic ingredients, using only natural ingredients which are all listed on the tin. Our non-toxic paints are your ‘health insurance’ and this is why we are happy to give you a full and honest list of their ingredients simply CLICK HERE 

Attention All Allergy Sufferers

We do not claim that that our paint is 100% suitable for all allergy suffers, that would be irresponsible.  However a few simple facts give us the confidence to know that our paint is most probably better than any synthetic product:

We use mostly water.  We use naturally occurring ingredients which are not alien to the human immune system, so they are less likely to irritate or distress the human body.  We tell you precisely what is in every tin.

Marketing Myths

Water-based Paint

Just because it is ‘water-based’ it does not mean that a paint is either eco-friendly or healthy. All paint is made with water, so this is not something unique to brands that proclaim to be ‘water-based’.

Low VOCs

Low VOCs in paint is the law, it should not be a marketing claim.  We say don’t always believe what you read. There is no such things as no VOCs, you create VOCs when you fry bacon and eggs! The VOC rating for our emulsion is less than 0.2% and that is amongst the lowest VOC rating of any paint sold in the world.  There is no such thing as VOC FREE paint.

A World Health Organisation report has advised that painters were 40% more likely to contract lung cancer.  When i read this, I was brought up short. As an interior designer I just did not want to feel that my choices could lead to long term health implications for my painters or give rise to asthma or other health problems for my clients. I began to see that using natural paints with declared ingredients was an easy way to reduce the risks. As time goes on the REACH regulations will flush out more of the dangerous chemicals used in paint making, but meanwhile we have tried to give information to help more informed choices to be made when it comes to selecting or specifying paints.

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Keeping it minimal and fresh in this dining space by @foresttohome featuring their Seasons Dining Table made from solid English oak. The wood is finished in natural oil, free from nasty VOC's, love to see brands making furniture out of natural materials and treating them with natural products. Paired perfectly with our colour 'Portland' ⁠on the walls, also natural and free from nasty VOC's and harmful chemicals 🌿🌍🌳⁠ ⁠ Happy Friday! ‘Lilac Pink’ looking warm and calming in @alisoncoldridge’s home, paired with beautiful flooring and flowers. Our paints are made using mineral and earth pigments so they change depending on the space, light and room - this versatility is what makes our paint different to any other on the market! #naturalpaint We are coveting every detail of this guest bedroom in Drumtennant, a newly built Georgian style house with interiors designed by @olpol_and_co and architecturally designed by @rupertcunningham from @benpentreathstudio. Painted in our ‘Pea Green’ on the walls, and our plaster pink ‘Jonquil’ on the ceiling and bathroom walls. Paired beautifully with curtain fabric by @gpjbaker and the chair upholstered in @theislemill… it’s magical, thank you @olpol_and_co 📸 @georgiarothmanproductions So lovely to see our ‘Turquoise’ ‘in full bloom’ at the Chelsea Flower Show with @comptonsmithinteriors and in such good company from fabrics, to furnishings and artwork. Take a look for yourself and head to stand EA440, the corner of Eastern Avenue and Eastern way. Thank you for using our plant-based paints for such a fitting event @comptonsmithinteriors and to such great effect. Take a look at our stories to see a few of our favourites paint colours paired with some beautiful blooms! 🌸🌿🎨 ‘Olympian Green’ bathroom at the home of @edward_bulmer who describes this colour as a ‘lime green without being a slime green’! Our colours are versatile and change in different spaces and lights because they are made from wonderful natural ingredients! Did you know that we are unique in making our paint with a plant-based binder, an alternative to a polymer derived binder used in most modern paints. These polymer binders contain micro beads and this particular ingredient is what contributes heavily to the 180,000 tones of micro plastics from paint ALONE that end up in our rivers and oceans every year! Switching to a natural paint is an easy way to avoid these devastating realities. Every day we strive to clean up the paint industry one tin at a time! 🌎🍃🎨💚 A stylish London bathroom suitably painted in our 'London Brown' ⁠in @my_london_home 🤎 We love how @my_london_home has painted the walls and panelling in the rich brown and paired this shade with slick black bath fittings and some minimalist homeware pieces. ⁠ ⁠ @edward_bulmer describes this as our 'dark chocolate'. We make this shade with just red oxide and black as all the old recipes would have it. We have given it a capital name for a serious metropolitan colour for those with the acquired taste. ⁠ ⁠ Discover the pure natural pigments in London Brown, with an extraordinary depth and response to light which synthetic paints cannot recreate. #naturalpaint

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