New Eco-Friendly Craft company - Eco Green Crafts™

Online, January 17, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Salt Lake City UT (January 12, 2010) GREEN is the universal color that is saving the world! A new company, Eco Green Crafts, is the first environmentally conscious company to launch a complete line of eco-friendly art and craft products.

This announcement comes in light of consumer demand for products that are safe for their family and better for the environment. Eco Green Crafts products are made from non-toxic, recycled, and environmentally-friendly materials. The Founders of Eco Green Crafts, Julia Andrus and Susan Sepaniak, are both professionals with broad areas of expertise within the art, craft and home decor industries. Through their collaborative efforts they developed the Eco Green Crafts product line after Julia won her battle with a rare form of cancer. They are now advocates for healthy alternatives to consumer products.

After years of product and pigment development, as well as work in industrial chemistry, Julia began researching the possible effects of chemicals and other substances found in our everyday environments, especially those materials and products that artists and crafters might be exposed to on a regular basis. The results were stunning; the majority of craft products tested contained high levels of volatile organic compounds (VOC'S) as well as caustic preservatives, airborne irritants and numerous other potentially harmful substances.

With those findings in hand, Julia and Susan set out on a mission to make safe, eco-friendly products that are harmless to consumers, manufacturing workers and the environment. This team combined their talents to carve out a niche in a highly desirable market, providing customers worldwide with high quality safe alternatives in art and craft products. Susan emphasizes their company tagline, "Where creativity comes naturally™".

Julia stated that, "One of the things I learned during my own experience with cancer is that there are three basic factors that contribute to serious health issues, these are genetics, lifestyles and environment. While there is nothing we can do about our genetic make-up, there is plenty we can do to improve our personal environments and lifestyles. Using leisure time for creative activities has been proven to reduce stress. Using safe eco-friendly products for creative projects is a tremendous contribution that can make a healthy difference, especially for children and active crafters.

The Eco Green Crafts team wanted to start at the beginning of production focusing on the manufacturing environment, so they created a business partnership with an Asian manufacture Shenzhen Wingart Art Supplies Co., Ltd. that has the same GREEN vision. Shenzhen Wingart is known for creating non-toxic children's paints and craft materials for worldwide distribution. They stand apart from most paint manufactures in the world because of their highly trained chemists and devotion to advanced formulas. Having a single goal; to make better safer paints and craft supplies, a "natural" partnership blossomed. The Eco Green Crafts team is invested in green solutions as part of their manufacturing processes, using organic pigments, recycled materials and other non-toxic elements in their products and ad packaging. They are committed to bringing many more quality craft products to market in the future. They are enthused by innovation!

The Eco Green Crafts product line, to be launched in January 2010 at the Craft and Hobby Association trade show in Anaheim Ca. includes: craft paints, stamping inks, organic glue (all with no or low VOC's), rubber stamps using no hardwood mounting, recycled glass embellishments, and more.

Eco Green Crafts is provider of environmental and consumer-friendly craft products. Based in Salt Lake City, the Company is dedicated to another important message, "in the world of art Green is more than just a color", with their innovative product line.