The Real Milk Paint Co. Milk Paint

I saw this first used in a health food store here and town. they also sold the product. so when doing our daughter's nursery, it was a must have. It was easy to use. The down side is when it drieds, it looks a bit "dusty" like it has a very very thin layer of chalk. if your hands are wet, it can effect the paint too I've noticed. not a problem in a bedroom or living room, but could be in a bathroom or kitchen.
all in all, we are happy with our non-toxic choice.

I was young and innocent when I tried Milk Paint, and I had no idea how small a pint was. I got all excited because it was only about eight dollars for a pint!!! Eight dollars!! OMG!11!11!!!!! Yeah, well, that's because a pint is teeny - and milk paint doesn't seem to have great coverage in the first place. (Now it's about $10.)

I was also excited because Milk Paint is the kind of stuff people used in the Olden Days, one of the many cases where the most eco-friendly way to do something is to do it the way they did a couple of centuries ago or more. It seemed all retro and vintage and historical, like I was part of a great big chain of eco-friendly painters, reclaiming American walls from toxic airborne pollutants. Et cetera.

But Milk Paint did not work for me. Part of this was my fault: the instructions clearly explain when to add water and how much to mix it, and I switched the order, figuring that it would be easier and wouldn't matter. I ended up with chunky paint that gritted up my walls. I did better mixing up the next batch, but thought I would get more coverage out of it; in a desperate attempt to finish one wall without having to order more, I added more water and of course got a lot of weird watery drips and streaks all over the place.

To their credit, Milk Paint offers a refund if you're not satisfied; I didn't want to claim it when the problems lay in my mixing. But I wasn't satisfied anyway; it's very expensive for something I have to mix myself, doesn't cover much of the walls, and only comes in a fairly dark palette. I appreciate that they use eco-friendly all-natural substances, but that alone can't get them across all my walls.