Zest It Safe Oil Paint Dilutant & Brush Cleaner

Name: Zest It Safe Oil Paint Dilutant & Brush Cleaner
Brand: Bird & Davis

Bird & Davis

£18.85

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Zest-it Oil Paint Dilutant And Brush Cleaner is a much safer solvent for oil painters than Gum Turpentine and White Spirit, it has been an excellent alternative for many years. It removes colour, thinners and mediums from skin and brushes effectively, but is based on the zest of citrus fruit, so has a lovely fresh odour. It also thins oil paint and improves transparency, and blends coloured pencils and pastels on paper. Zest-it Oil Paint Dilutant And Brush Cleaner is non-flammable and biodegradable, and is ideal for use in shared studios, schools and colleges, and by those allergic to conventi

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as BIRD & DAVIS LIMITED, number 00229477. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "As the business continued to grow, the Kentish Town factory eventually became too small. In 2014, Bird & Davis moved to a spacious new facility on Brunswick Park Road, where we operate today." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.

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