What makes paint dangerous?
Many paint manufacturers presented on the market only care about the durability, colorfulness, consistency of their product, forgetting about the people who actually work with their paint. The results can be seen from the statistics – many professional decorators, who often have to deal with paint, suffer from the vocational illness involving kidneys, liver, lungs, nervous system and other internal organs damages.
What makes paint so toxic are VOCs – volatile organic compounds – which include many harmful chemicals (toluene, ethyl acetate, methylene chloride, etc.). A fresh layer of VOC-containing paint emits those irritants, which may cause allergies, airway diseases, asthma, nausea, headaches, fainting, or even hallucinations and memory impairment to everyone inhaling the paint odor. …