How To Choose A Healthy Indoor Paint.

Whether you are moving building or just in the need of redesigning or refreshing your home, painting the walls is almost always involved.
With this, as with anything else new regulations and and products are popping up daily, a lot of them declaring themselves green and environmentally friendly.

Of late, a new consideration in choosing paints has arisen and that is paints that are low or no VOC or (Volatile Organic Compounds) that can create low quality indoor air.
If you are like me and had no clue that these compounds existed
here is a definition from the U.S EPA:

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors.

So if you are thinking of repainting look for low VOC paint.

Jill from Inhabitat says

I took an informal poll of about ten different green building experts that I knew on the best ‘eco paint’ available and to my surprise, I got the same response from almost everyone I talked to: AFM Safecoat. Apparently AFM Safecoat is widely known to be the safest and healthiest brand of no-VOC paint currently on the market. We’re not just talking ‘low-VOCs’ but NO VOCs, and no other toxins either. Apparently while most other “low VOC” products on the market are low in what the government regulates as Volatile Organic Compounds, they still contain a host of unregulated toxic ingredients (such as ammonia, acetone, exempt solvents and odor masking agents), which can be equally nasty on indoor air quality and your health.

Jill tried this paint and found it odorless and the quality and color to be just as good as in regular paint. it is a little more expensive but In my eyes - worth the price!