Breathe In!
Thirty years ago, all paints were smelly paints, so Ian West & John Ashworth spent 6 years developing the world's first odourless, organic, eco VOC-free paints & varnishes for healthy homes, nurseries, for babies health & the pregnant. Read about our story below
Global Warming
Climate positive paint - How to help combat climate change and global warming on an individual level, a personal level, by your lifestyle choices and in your home by using climate positive paint. To help stop climate change and global warming, some real-world highly useful options that are already easily do-able include solvent-free paints eg Lakeland Paints - which are free of all solvents, contain NO greenhouse gases, formaldehyde, VOC-free, Non-toxic. Surely, paint solvent – as involved in global warming and combating climate change - is a tiny concern you might think? Not at all - paint emitted 24 MILLION tons of greenhouse gases solvents into the atmosphere last year and every year - (UN/WHO EH187 et al)
- and these solvents are 20-50x worse than CO2 as greenhouse gases – which are the root causes of global warming and climate change in the first place. So - if you really want to do something to help counter global warming and combat climate change you could do a lot worse than switch to one of the VOC-Free breathable paints out there. And if you want the ultimate option it has to be Zero VOC certified climate positive Lakeland Paints. That's 0.000% VOC. Help Stop global warming and combat climate change now ! Get a Free chart today. Insulate your home with our super Insulating Paint - Anti Condensation Paint.
Our mission
To rid the world of unnecessary VOCs, greenhouse gases, Solvents & Toxins in Paint. More than 30 years ago we set out to make solvent-free natural paints because the use of solvents (VOCs) is highly polluting, affects climate change badly and is not necessary. And also because the new normal was – and still is - Low VOC, Low carbon paint – but that’s an easy thing to do - its really not difficult. One central factory supplying “contract” paint to many of the names you know – just marketed differently - the same One-Size-Fits-All paint for everyone. Paints that may be marginally better – but Low is not Zero – so why stop at LOW ? - When you can have Zero Solvents, Zero VOCs, Zero heavy metals – All Certified Zero & climate positive – made in UK by us. When we say Zero we mean 0.000%. All in 100% recyclable packaging.
Normal paints emitted 24 Million tonnes of VOCs into the atmosphere last year* – how much pollution did Lakeland emit ? Zero. Nothing. Zilch. So much so that we won Four major environmental awards and are ISO 14001 accredited. So – if you want to settle for half-best, for Low VOC - if Just OK is good enough - well, there are plenty out there selling Low VOC paints - though our customers say What are you missing out on ! -what getting rid of that last spoonful of VOCs means to a family – What 0.000% VOC feels like - to Breathe truly fresh air in your home every day – non-polluting and with a clear conscience & climate positive. Why settle for half a job – don’t go Low VOC - go Zero VOC with Lakeland 0.000%. In 372 Colours. Only at Lakeland. Made in the UK. *UN/WHO documents ehc 187 et al.
TSL Group
When we set up our paint business TSL in 1989 - in Kendal, Cumbria, on the edge of the beautiful Lake District – it seemed only natural to call our paints Lakeland Paints, with our water-based and Zero-VOC Products sold as Ecos – an acronym of
Environmentally
Conscious
Odourless
Solvent-Free.
TSL also invented other novel paint types – Galvadek Zinc paint for galvanized steel - and several ranges of inks & dips for industrial uses. These were subsequently discontinued, as the VOC-Free Ecos Paints were progressing remarkably well and keeping us super busy.
Expansion - in 2012 we opened a similar manufacturing facility in the USA – in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to serve the US, Canadian & South American markets with the same Zero VOC water-based range of Ecos paints, varnishes & other coatings.
From that time, our paints have been primarily marketed in the UK as Lakeland Paints - although sometimes as Ecos Organic Paints for reasons of public relations and SEO.
Many still seek out Ecos Paints in the UK so we may use this branding in tandem with Lakeland Paints if its a better fit for media, PR, SEO and other purposes.