Green Paint
Green Paint - Sustainable & Eco Friendly green paints for walls, ceilings and wood trim. Part of our range of natural paint colours.
Green paints were originally used by the early Egyptians and Greeks, made from natural minerals such as malachite, which is a green mineral which is copper based (you've seen that lovely green colour on church roof sections etc!). The Romans used verdigris, which was a pigment made from exposing copper to vinegar fumes - which produced a green colour but turned a rich brown over time.
'Scheele's Green' was the first synthetic green pigment in 1775, made from copper and, belive it or not, arsenic, which caused much damage to those who lived in rooms painted with it, not nice. 'Paris Green' in 1814 was a more vivid (also arsenic) green, but also later banned for the same reason. "Emerald green' in the mid 1800s was a safer (but still toxic) alternative to Paris Green.
With the discovery of chromium oxide and phthalocyanine greens, less-toxic and more durable green paints became available with the development of acrylic and water-based paints. Fast forward to right now, and our ranges of actually non toxic paints provide safer, eco-friendly options.
