Make sure both your base paint and your color tint are low VOC.

Dutch Boy Refresh and Pure Performance interior paints may say they contain Zero VOCs – volotile organic compounds that can hurt your health – but it’s a claim not entirely true, says the government’s Federal Trade Commission.

Sure, those base paints may be fine, but if you want to add color you’ll need a tint most likely containing tons of that carbon material emitting the very gasses you were trying to avoid in the first place.

The paint company – Sherwin-Williams Co. – is now being forced to change the label.

Bottom line, if you want low VOC paint, you gotta check the whole mixture.