This week I’m going to talk about some of the ingredients of paint and it’s important to note that all brands of paint have these components, where they differ is how they are blended and cooked.

Here are the key componets:
1.) Liquid: Which is the water and solvent. The water evaporates and it becomes latex and pigemnt. 

• Solvent: VOC
• Water

2.) Pigment: This provides whitemness, color, hiding, and bulk. Deep base has no pigment - no white and light base has a lot of pigment - which has more white. 

• Titanium Dioxide
•  Extenders and Fillers
•  Color Pigment
•  Opaque Polymeter

3.) Additives: this distigueshes the paint manufactures and is this gives the paint stability and functionality.

• Rheology Modifiers which controles the thinkcness and smoothness.
• Dispersant which helps mix and keps products from conforming and ruining the paint.
• Defoamer so the paint doesn’t bubble.
• Biocide which kills the bugs and gives the paint shelf durability
• Surfacent
• Coalescent which makes the paint hard. It softens when applied and hard when it dries. 

4.) Binders: This binds the pigment, provides adhesion, durability & film integrity. Oil base is a solution. Water base binders dries when the water dissolves.

• Alkyd
• Acrylic