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Timeless Japanese Innovation, Modern Home Wellness
What is Shikkui?Crafted for centuries, Shikkui is an architectural coating that purifies the air & regulates humidity.
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Improve Your Home’s Air Quality, Naturally with Shikkui
Discover Shikkui’s BenefitsOur all-natural architectural coatings improve indoor air quality by regulating humidity, neutralizing pollutants, and disinfecting the air.
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Where Sustainability Meets Wellness
Explore Our ProductsOur natural, earth-friendly products enhance indoor spaces by neutralizing VOCs, regulating humidity, and creating healthier homes.
Introducing Shikkui
A natural, earth-friendly architectural coating engineered in Japan, and developed into a variety of interior paints, interior & exterior plaster finishes, and decorative air deodorizers. Shikkui promotes a healthier indoor environment through the following key benefits:
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Humidity Regulating
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Disinfects the Air (Antimicrobial & Anti-Allergic)
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Absorbs and neutralizes VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) & Odors
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Why indoor air quality matters
Often when considering pollutants most will think of the air we breathe outside. However, on average we spend approximately 90% of our time indoors and according to the U.S EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), indoor air is on average 2 – 5 times higher in concentration of some pollutants than typical outdoor concentrations. This concentration of pollutants indoors has also increased due to the use of synthetic building materials, furnishings, personal care products, household cleaners and as a result, indoor air pollutants have been associated with many health concerns.
How does SHIKKUI improve indoor air quality?
Shikkui actively improves indoor air quality and provides a variety of health and home benefits due to its composition. Made from a highly porous and absorbent mineral, Shikkui can effectively regulate indoor humidity, offsetting the wear and tear on HVAC systems, and absorbing VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and odors. While its high alkali properties (12pH) sourced from slaked lime makes Shikkui naturally antiviral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-static, preventing dust accumulation. Shikkui also undergoes carbonation by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into calcium carbonate, which gradually hardens the material overtime and increases its durability.
VOC content
ASTM D3960
Zero-VOC finishes
(0.0-0.7 gr/L or 0.0-0.0 lbs/gal)
Anti-fungal
ASTM D3273/74
Rating 10
(no fungal growth)
Sore D Hardness
ASTM D2240
61-85
(depending on product)
Anti-Viral
ISO 21702
99.4% elimination of Feline Coronavirus in 2 hours
Antibacterial
JIS Z 2801
Complete elimination of Escherichia coli in 24 hours
Fire Resistant
ASTM E84
Class A
(Type I in other codes)
A time proven material for over 5 millenium
From 17th Century Japan to the 21st Century, Shikkui has been used as an interior and exterior surface coating in Empirical Century Castles to modern day homes and commercial buildings. Known for its health and home benefits, and durability, it’s been a chosen material to improve indoor air quality and invigorate any space with its countless applications that contribute to unique designs. The evolution of this traditional building material has seen advancements in finishing materials with the development of Shikkui Paint, and home goods with LumieCube, a small scale air freshener and Deodo Tile, a shoe and multipurpose air deodorizer.
