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What is a natural material? It is a material that will adapt of its utmost to its environmental context in each step of the process (making, implementing, aging and destructing).
Generally, concerning adornment, there are still too many hazardous products. Industry has often ignored those “details”. Intoxications mostly due to glycerol paintings are still very current for professionals and customers. A freshly painted interior is often eminently toxic.
Recent studies concerning the OVC (Organical and Volatile Components) emitted by the decorative products are frightening. A home can be contaminated during the 2 or 3years following the application. Natural adornment is made out of earth coating (soil and lime, plaster and soil) and out of paintings genuinely "uncontaminated" (casein, lime, silicate...)