Hi everyone,
I'm looking to build some wooden toys that would be safe for a baby to gnaw on, but want an opaque glossy painted finish. I've done some random searching but have not found anything that is confirmed as safe in this application.
Does anyone know of such a product? I saw that Rustoleum has a "Painter's Touch" that says it is safe for toys, but it doesn't specify whether it is safe for babies. It also doesn't appear to be available outside of the UK.
Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers!
Scott
(11-11-2020, 01:11 PM)cromulentone Wrote: [ -> ]Hi everyone,
I'm looking to build some wooden toys that would be safe for a baby to gnaw on, but want an opaque glossy painted finish. I've done some random searching but have not found anything that is confirmed as safe in this application.
Does anyone know of such a product? I saw that Rustoleum has a "Painter's Touch" that says it is safe for toys, but it doesn't specify whether it is safe for babies. It also doesn't appear to be available outside of the UK.
Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers!
Scott
Painter's Touch is definitely available here, unless you're referring to a specific subtype.
To answer the question, though, any modern paint should be safe for babies once dry.
Yes the pundits all say that once cured any finish sold in the US is foodsafe. The
The Real Milk Paint Co advertises their milk paint as safe for children.
John
Cure times are not linear. While a finish might cure 50% in 24 hours and 75% in 48 hours, that final bit of curing continues for a considerable amount of time. I've read that 200 hours of cure time will yield 90% cure. I don't know how they come up with those numbers.
I do know that waiting 8 days after applying an oil based poly finish I can no longer scratch the surface with my fingernails, but I can still scratch it with the edge of a copper penny.
But that same finish that is several years old cannot be scratched with that same coin. So the cure continues well past the 200 hours that is frequently given as a "full cure" time. The 30 days is probably more accurate, but I doubt that even 30 days is 100% cured on finishes with multiple coats.
How that relates to being child safe is not clear to me, however a fully cured poly finish would be very difficult to chip off and enter the digestive system of an infant.
(11-11-2020, 01:11 PM)cromulentone Wrote: [ -> ]Hi everyone,
I'm looking to build some wooden toys that would be safe for a baby to gnaw on, but want an opaque glossy painted finish. I've done some random searching but have not found anything that is confirmed as safe in this application.
Does anyone know of such a product? I saw that Rustoleum has a "Painter's Touch" that says it is safe for toys, but it doesn't specify whether it is safe for babies. It also doesn't appear to be available outside of the UK.
Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers!
Scott
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Old-fashioned, but useful.