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Introduction to Skin-Feel Paint and Application Methods
Release time:
2025-01-10 17:03
In an era that places great emphasis on appearance, furniture is also stepping up to the trend and embracing a “skin-care” makeover! As people’s demands for furniture’s “aesthetic appeal” and “substance” continue to rise—especially in today’s climate where high-end custom furnishings and minimalist, luxe styles are all the rage—the “feel” of furniture has become the latest darling in the home furnishings market.
Skin feel is a subjective sensation that primarily results from a combination of tactile and visual perceptions. It encompasses the sensations—such as touch, texture, and comfort—that the skin experiences when you touch or use a product. Thus, the emergence of skin feel largely depends on surfaces with special structural characteristics, which, upon contact with the skin, evoke multiple sensations including softness, fullness, warmth, and overall comfort—much like having a gentle little kitten at home.
Skin-feel furniture gets its name from its lacquer finish, which feels as smooth and soft as a baby’s skin. In recent years, the skin-feel effect has become one of the “standard features” of furniture, setting a new trend in home fashion. In today’s minimalist and luxe-style interiors, skin-feel lacquer perfectly matches our lifestyle, allowing you to savor little moments of happiness every single day.
The appeal of tactile-finish furniture lies primarily in the coatings applied to its surface. Tactile paints designed for wood finishing not only offer excellent adhesion and a smooth, silky feel but also boast eco-friendly, odorless properties, an ultra-matte finish, and outstanding resistance to scratches and stains.
Skin feel characteristics:
1. Smooth and Silky Texture: The texture feels as smooth and elastic as a newborn baby’s skin—just like touching a freshly peeled, cooked egg.
2. Fine surface: The surface curing film is extremely fine, highly uniform, and boasts a strong texture.
3. Fully Matte Finish: The paint finish achieves a fully matte effect, with a gloss level ranging from 2° to 5°—subtle luxury with depth and sophistication.
4. Excellent durability: It boasts outstanding resistance to fingerprints, stain resistance, abrasion resistance, and yellowing resistance—truly built to last!
So, how is skin-feel paint applied? Currently, the application processes for skin-feel paint include the following:
1. Coating Technology
Both PU and water-based paints can achieve a skin-feel effect through appropriate paint formulations. The skin-feel effect in PU paints was realized relatively early on; domestically, several manufacturers are now capable of producing water-based paints that offer a similar skin-feel. However, both types of paint contain certain solvents, which can pollute the environment, and they require heating for curing, resulting in relatively high energy consumption.
2. Membrane Pressing Technology
On workpieces that have been properly primed, apply a UV topcoat using roller coating. Then, use a tactile-feel film to flatten the topcoat. After curing under a UV light source, peel off the film to obtain a product with a textured, tactile finish. However, this film-pressing technique is limited to processing flat surfaces only. Moreover, due to the microstructural limitations of the tactile-feel film, the durability of the tactile effect on such products may be somewhat restricted under certain conditions.
3. Excimer Lamp Curing Technology
The underlying principle is that 172nm excimer light belongs to the short-wave ultraviolet spectrum, with a penetration depth of only 100 to 500 nm. It can cure only an extremely thin layer on the surface of the coating. The polymerization and crosslinking of this thin layer cause shrinkage, resulting in an uneven surface that achieves a matte finish and a pleasant skin-like feel. Since this matting method does not require the use of matting agents, it is referred to as “physical matting.” Compared with PU coatings and water-based coatings that offer a skin-like finish, excimer-light-based skin-feel coatings exhibit superior resistance to scratches, stain resistance, anti-fingerprint properties, and repairability. However, due to the high cost of excimer-light equipment and the need for nitrogen protection during the curing process, the initial investment cost and ongoing operating costs are relatively high. Therefore, to reduce costs, the 172nm lamp has been replaced with a 254nm lamp. Although the 254nm curing technology does not deliver the same level of skin-feel effect as the 172nm excimer-light curing technology, it offers several advantages: it does not require nitrogen protection, involves a lower initial equipment investment, and incurs lower operating costs.
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