What about the colour Green?

Today, the colour green is the eligible contractual trademark to ecology and the embodiment of healthcare and sustainability and has the ability to make a person feel like they are part of something larger than themselves. It’s quite paradoxical to understand how an unstable, challenging and, even toxic green pigment has become a colour which stands for nature and the environment – a colour which symbolises fertility and rebirthing and epitomizes luck, hope and even wealth!

Green prevails for love, long-lasting relationships, integration, compassion, bonds with others, opportunities, agreements, responsibility, practicality, and fortitude. It is the abiding colour for ‘life-affirming’, zest for life and nature conscious kind of people. Its symbolism carries a wise and rational energy that can bring us a sense of security and consistency.

Interestingly health wise, green relates to the heart, the lungs and lung tissues, the respiratory system, and the blood cells exchange, and has fortifying attributes by its association to the air.

Why Go Green?

Nature’s greens revive, restore, and renew. Green is chlorophyll and it is our oxygen renewal. We certainly should pay more attention to our green nature. But why?

Well, carbon found in natural air is instrumental in regulating the physiology of the body, to form proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. CO2 is transported in the bloodstream to the lungs where it is ultimately removed from the body through exhalation. While the respiratory system is responsible for gas exchange, the circulatory system is responsible for transporting blood and its components to and from the tissues.

Leaves generate chlorophyll (a natural green pigment), which under the effect of the sunlight and water, converts the carbon dioxide into glucose and energy, allowing plants to grow, us to breathe and our bodies to develop healthily. Chlorophyll is a powerhouse antioxidant protecting our cells against degenerative illnesses. It is a blood booster!

Effects of Carbone Dioxin on the human body?

If we need natural CO2 to help the body to grow harmoniously, to help our muscles to produce energy, and replenish our red cells, sun exposure to carbonised combustibles, or to carbon dioxide-fed agents, has a negative effect on our health and well-being.  An elevation of CO2 in the bloodstream, in the long term, affects respiratory functions as well as the kidneys.  This develops into various allergogene pathologies such as asthma, depression, and damage to our central nervous system.

So indoor or outdoor?  Where is the best air to breath?  Where is the safest environment?

Well!  Let’s look at statistics for now:

A study from Velux, reveals that we spend nearly enough 90% of our time inside!  How scary when the Environmental Protection Agency found that our indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than the outdoor air.  Humidity, mould, and inadequate temperatures can all lead to more pollution issues while indoors.  Not surprising then to read that, since 1980, there is an80% increase in respiratory chronic illnesses within the young population, with a rate of 44% being hospitalised.  Today, asthma is the fourth leading cause of absenteeism, with the death rate on the increase.

So, now might be time to re-evaluate our lifestyle and the one for our children.  Let’s take a deep breath, go, and get oxygenated, reinvigorated by the beauty the nature and you may want to think GRAPHENSTONE paint!

Introducing GRAPHENSTONE

For this reason, GRAPHENSTONE paints are Sensitive Choice certified (This is a global programme that identifies through research and testing those products that, due to their composition, benefit people with asthma or allergies).

On a technical approach, lime is a natural and artisanal material that absorbs C02 in the carbonation process, means, during the drying of the paint once applied. Most of it is absorbed during the 28 days following the paint application.

The mineral properties of the lime makes the paint particularly breathable, creating a safer and healthier environment particularly for the people suffering from respiratory difficulties.

The adds-on are that lime is also a natural pesticide and fungicide giving to the paint its antimicrobial & insect repellant properties. Therefore, there won’t be any preservatives added onto the paint.

The graphene is the paint molecular bonding agent and add many benefits to the paint qualities and properties, including being anti-condensation and water repellent. It also makes the lime paint a washable, very resistant & durable material.

How Graphenstone is contributing and engaged in minimising the carbon footprint?

GRAPHENSTONE is highly committed to the certification program of the Reuse, Reduce and Recycle philosophy and has developed ecological solutions to the sustainability of its containers and the environmental-friendly life cycle of its product, guaranteeing the most efficient use of materials with full respect to the environment, the fitness, and wellbeing of the users.