Fantastea Pain

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

There are toxic paints that are used for educational and beautification purposes. Paint used by many people, such as children and painters, are not safe because these have poisonous content and with a bad smell that can affect the health. The continued use of toxic resources in massive amount results to too manynations and countries of the world will have to deal with not healthy and friendly environment. In Calamba Integrated School, there are many health conscious teachers who are drinking tea every day. The researcher tried to search for the things that can be utilized in those teabags used by the teachers. The researchers would like to utilize it in using environmental-friendly paint. Specifically, this research aims to determine the acceptability of FANTASTEA in terms of appearance, texture, and smell.

METHODS

This action research used experimental design. Boil 5 cups of water 8 minutes. Add the pandan leaves and lemon grass to the boiling water let it boil for 3-5 minutes; it will help to get a pleasant scent. After getting the pleasant scent, add the 10 pcs of used tea bags. Using the wooden spoon, squeeze the tea bags to get the extract. Mix ¼ cup potato starch and ¼ cup baking powder. Then add 2 table spoons of mixed potato powder and baking powder. Stir the mixture attentively. Continue stirring the mixture in 25 minutes while adding the ½ tsp of vinegar; this is because it has a very strong acetic properties to make the color bright. Add ½ tsp of salt because it can help to hold up the color of a mixture. Lastly, let the mixture cool for about 3-5 minutes then add the 1/8 tsp of virgin coconut oil because it can also brighten the color of paint. Ten respondents were chosen by random sampling to evaluate the ability of Fantastea paint. In analysis of variables such as appearance, color, texture, smell, and acceptability, a weighed mean, as well as the Likert scale, was used to determine the acceptability.

RESULTS

Based on the result of the table above, the respondents perceived that the appearance (3.40), texture (3.90) and smell (3.80) are very acceptable.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the result, tea bag is feasible in making environmental friendly and odorless paint.