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Non Toxic Desks

Solid wood desks, glass desks, metal desks, non toxic sit stand desks, and how to make any desk a little healthier.

Solid wood organic table with turned legs holding four decorative vases and a table lamp, against a plain background.

Organic Solid Wood Desks

A solid wooden desk with two drawers, finished with natural wood stain and non toxic glues positioned against a white wall and next to a tall green potted plant.

A non toxic wooden desk with four legs and built-in storage compartments across the top.

Affordable unfinished solid wood desk with a single small drawer and four straight legs.

Natural Furniture

Natural Furniture sells only 100% solid wood furniture— no formaldehyde-containing particleboard or MDF anywhere. You can select unfinished options, or choose one of their plant-based finishes for their wide selection of desks. Glue brand is unspecified but company verifies that it is zero or low-VOC. Less spendy, cute styles.

Unfinished Solid Wood Desk

The most affordable solid wood desk. International Concepts on Amazon sells unfinished wood desks and other furniture (I have their night stands and finished them with super-healthy Rubio Monocoat). The only drawback is that their glue is unspecified and requires a Prop 65. While I’m not normally a fan, it is sooo hard to find unfinished, affordable, solid wood desks— in this case, the benefits outweigh the costs for me. I let mine off-gas outdoors for a few days, though in my opinion, they were far less smelly than even IKEA’s glues are. An imperfectly healthy wood option!

A filled light blue dot symbol next to the words “Healthiest Wood Finish” indicating that this wood product is finished with 100% natural plant oils.

A filled light blue dot symbol next to the words “No Wood Stain or Finish” indicating that this furniture is made with raw wood, a healthy choice for you and your home so you don't have to worry about toxic wood stains or finishes.

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A filled light blue dot symbol next to the words “Healthiest Wood” indicating that this non toxic furniture is made with 100% solid wood and no fake woods or formaldehyde containing glues, resins, or fillers.

A digital drawing of a computer mouse and keyboard with the text 'Click, Tap, Scroll, Swipe'

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Avocado

This non toxic Mid Century Modern desk from Avocado is an ultra-healthy option made with solid wood and has quiet soft-close drawers. They use a water based adhesive, safe zero-VOC stains, and have a transparent ingredients list. Spendy, beautiful.

Wood Furniture

Wood Furniture features the Ethnicraft collection of desks, which are made from solid woods, joinery, and natural finishes. They have many styles of zero VOC solid wood desks, including the ultra simple modern desk above.

A filled light blue dot symbol next to the words ”No Adhesives Used” indicating that this product does not contain glues, which is the healthiest choice for you and your home.

An open blue dot symbol next to the words “Healthy Adhesive” indicating that this furniture is made with non toxic glue, a healthy choice for you and your home.

A filled light blue dot symbol next to the words "Healthiest Wood Stain" meaning this is the most non toxic wood stain for a desk

A clear glass desk, a table lamp with a beige base, a small stack of books, a large window with trees outside, and a yellow-orange textured rug.

Glass Desks

A glass-top table with a non toxic metal X-shaped frame, positioned against a white paneled wall.

Black metal modern desk with two drawers and gold knobs, minimalist design, thin black metal legs, with a non toxic powder coated finish

Metal Desks

A white steel mobile desk with a laptop, a black cup with pens and a desk lamp on a gray wall background.

Powder Coated Metal Desks

Like glass, metal desks don’t require glues or stains, and the powder coated protective layer doesn’t have any solvents in it— it’s a much safer type of coating than commercial paints, and is quite chemically inert. I recommend powder coated metal often as an alternative to solid wood and glass. The one pictured above is from All Modern— metal can be really elegant!

Rolling Metal Desk

A more affordable non toxic metal desk option through Amazon is here. This one has wheels, is sturdy, and is rated easy to assemble. A good healthy desk choice if you like a minimalist look, don’t want to deal with glass, or the expense of solid wood.

Glass Desk with Metal Legs

Another non toxic glass desk option, this one is very affordable and super highly rated, available through Amazon. Glass and metal are two inert, healthy materials that don’t rely on adhesives to keep them together.

Glass Desks

Glass desks can be an affordable non toxic desk option; it’s a great alternative to faux woods, and doesn’t have any formaldehyde-containing particleboard or MDF— just glass.

Solid Wood Sit Stand Desk

Made with solid wood and organic zero-VOC finishes, the Enso desk from T.Y. Fine Furniture is rare. Not only does the desk encourage health through standing and increased activity, but also has a high level of material health. Certainly an investment, but very beautiful and totally non-toxic.

Adjustable Metal Legs for a DIY Sit Stand Desk

You can control the material health of your sit-stand desk if you add your own top to these electronic adjustable metal legs. Use a healthy stain or paint on a piece of solid wood, or something you already own. A more affordable standing desk option.

White glass adjustable-height desk with dual computer monitors, a keyboard, a mouse, a desk pad, headphones hanging on the side, a plant, a magazine, a pen, and a green glass cup.

Modern adjustable wooden riser desk with its adjustable surface extended, positioned inside a bookshelf unit with decor and storage compartments.

Glass Sit-Stand Desk

Another more affordable standing desk option, a glass desk means you don’t have to worry about what kind of wood or stain is used. Add a wool desk pad if it’s too cold to the touch. This one from Amazon is highly rated and comes in relatively small sizes (40”) to large sizes, as well.

Desk Converter

Branch, maker of desks and some of the office chairs I recommend, has a new desk riser that’s on par with my current one in terms of material health, but much more attractive, if that matters to you. Option to add a monitor shelf if you’re using a desktop instead of a laptop.

Adjustable height electric standing sturdy metal desk frame with control panel

Non Toxic Sit Stand Desks

An adjustable height sit stand solid wooden desk finished with non toxic stain with black metal legs against a plain white background.

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OEKO TEX certified wool green desk mat on a wooden table.

Healthy Desk Accessories

Wool Desk Pad

If you have a less-than-healthy desk top, I recommend just covering the parts you touch with a wool pad, since contaminants in plastic are potentially absorbable through skin if you’re in contact with it for long hours like I am. These from Graf Lantz are made from Merino wool, and they use safe OEKO-TEX certified dyes. I currently have a couple of these in dark green, and they’re really lovely.

Blue Light Screen Protector

I’m a huge fan of reducing the amount of blue light we’re exposed to all day, especially in the afternoon and evening hours. (You can read more at the bottom of my lighting page, here, or watch a video I made about it here.) Ocushield makes really convenient and high quality blue light protectors for your desk that can reduce eye strain, headaches, and circadian rhythm problems without changing the look of your screen quality.