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Non Toxic Furniture Brands
By Dr. Meg Christensen | Updated October 2025
The best non-toxic furniture brands. I analyzed every material they use for its potential impact on your health.
Avocado offers bed frames, coffee tables, kids dressers, nightstands, armchairs, benches, dining tables, and stools. They use solid wood, non-toxic ECOS stains, and Titebond glues with GreenGuard Gold certification. For their upholstered furniture, they use GOLS certified latex and GOTS certified fabrics. The best part about Avocado is how transparent they are about every single material they use; the ingredients are always listed on the product page.
The brand Wood Furniture features the Ethnicraft collection, many pieces of which are made from 100% solid woods, joinery, and hardwax oil finishes, the healthiest you can get. They have over 300 options, so be sure to ask what glues or finishes are used if hardwax and joinery aren’t specified on the piece you’re interested in. You can use my material guides to decide if it’s healthy enough for you. The rating below represents their healthiest option.
Higher end 100% solid wood furniture including desks, bed frames, and media consoles made with traditional wooodworking. They use an all-organic flax-based wood finish that they make in house. If glue is needed, they use a very small amount of Titebond 3, a great non-toxic furniture glue option. They do have some furniture made by other brands that I can’t vouch for the materials in, but they’re clear about which ones they are, and the TY-made ones are fantastic from a health perspective.
Savvy Rest makes non toxic solid wood furniture including coffee tables, bed frames, benches and couches. You can choose a linseed oil (AKA flax) finish, or leave it unfinished. They use traditional mortise-and-tenon joinery, greatly minimizing the need for adhesives. Their certifications are displayed very easily in the footer of their website, which is so important for transparency reasons, and uncommon.
Medley offers modern, handmade, non toxic furniture including desks, storage consoles, armchairs, bed frames, coffee tables, dining tables, couches, and more. They’re almost always made of 100% solid wood, with formaldehyde-free engineered wood used sparingly to add strength on certain pieces. They’re very transparent about this on their materials page. All are finished with a plant-based, zero-VOC hardwax oil that is naturally water and heat-resistant. Zero-VOC glues are used only when necessary.
Built for Keeps makes a limited collection of modern solid wood furniture including coffee tables, bed frames, and night stands. Each piece is finished with plant-based oil stain, and water-based adhesives. They are also very transparent about brand names— they use Rubio Monocoat finish, and Titebond II glue, which is uncommon in the solid wood furniture world. This level of transparency is important for protecting you and for raising the bar for other companies.
The Natural Furniture store carries many different 100% solid wood furniture pieces from various US manufacturers, often at more affordable prices— including accent tables, coffee tables, side tables, and other solid wood living room furniture. Though materials vary by piece, they do not use formaldehyde-containing particleboard or MDF at all. You can select unfinished options, or choose one of their zero VOC plant-based finishes. Glue brand is unspecified but they stated in an email that it is low-VOC and that all their furniture meets California’s strict Prop 65 emission limits.
Naturepedic offers bedroom furniture, including dressers, bed frames, and night stands. All are made with 100% solid wood, are coated with water-based, low-VOC finishes, and held together with low-VOC adhesives. While they don’t disclose the brands of the finishes and glues they use, they do have GreenGuard GOLD certification meaning they’re tested for off-gassing, and they are UL validated formaldehyde-free.
Romina makes 100% solid wood furniture by hand in Europe, and they ship to the US. Their focus is on kids furniture, though they have adult options like dressers and bed frames, as well. They have many low-VOC choices for paints, stains, and finishes that you select when you order. Depending on the furniture and finish you select, it will either be water-based or oil-based. While they said they couldn’t disclose what brands they use, everything they sell is GreenGuard GOLD certified, meaning they should off-gas minimally.
Green Cradle makes solid wood bookcases, night stands, dressers, and cribs by hand in California. Like Romina, they’re focused on kids furniture, but have adult options as well. They use 100% solid wood, and you can choose your type (walnut, maple, oak, cherry.) All are finished with flaxseed oil —as healthy as you can get. They use a small amount of non-toxic water based wood glue when they need to. You can choose unfinished versions if you’d prefer raw wood or to finish it on your own.
DIY Non Toxic Furniture
When I was a student on a budget, I made some of my own affordable non toxic furniture to save money, including my coffee table that I still use, above. I used turned wooden legs from Etsy, a solid piece of wood from the local live edge store, and super-healthy Rubio Monocoat to stain and finish it. Rubio Monocoat’s Oil Plus 2C is a 0% VOC stain and wood finish all in one, and if you don’t use the accelerator, which speeds drying time, it’s completely healthy. I have used the accelerator, and it smells vaguely like Elderberry syrup to me. Ha! The legs screw right in, and I didn’t do any fancy framing, so there’s no wood glue involved, though the Titebond brand is well-known as a high quality non-toxic choice.
Vermont Woods Studios houses and sells several brands of solid wood, handmade furniture. All are healthier than average, but Vermont Furniture Designs (VFD) is the healthiest, as explained in the materials section in their bio, here. They use solid wood (cherry, walnut, or maple) and finish with linseed oil or tung oil and wax. Even if you go with another brand, they all generally use low-VOC materials and have a high amount of transparency and information on each page— they are also very responsive to emails.
Big Name Brands with Less Toxic Furniture
Is there non toxic furniture on Amazon? Yes, there are two choices: 1- International Concepts is an affordable solid wood furniture brand that sells through Amazon. I have their nightstands, and finished them with ultra-healthy Rubio Monocoat stain (pictured above.) Their wood glue is unspecified, and requires a Prop 65, I’m guessing for having a solvent in it— or simply to protect them from lawsuits. Definitely imperfect, it is so hard to find unfinished, affordable, solid wood furniture, and in this case, the benefits outweighed the costs for me. I let mine off-gas outdoors for a few days, though in my opinion, they were far less smelly than IKEA’s glues are. 2- Amazon has many options for glass and metal furniture— which are always MDF and particleboard free, and rarely require glues, making them a zero VOC, affordable, very healthy option.
Is Wayfair non toxic? Not entirely, but there are definitely some less toxic options available, including steel bed frames, pictured above, metal and glass tables, and solid wood furniture. They carry some OEKO TEX options for soft goods like rugs and blankets, as well. One nice thing about Wayfair is you can easily sort by material— though I obviously can’t speak to the exact stains, finishes, glues, and materials on every single one of their millions of items that encompass many different manufacturers and brands, you can still find some healthier than average items with a little hunting. Use my Material Health Guides if you’d like a little support as you shop.
Is Crate and Barrel non toxic? For solid furniture, they are a step ahead in terms of health over Pottery Barn and West Elm, just because they’ve banned flame retardants and all PFAS in non-cookware items. That said, their soft goods like blackout curtains are sometimes not as healthy as the other brands— in short, read the product details closely. They do have some OEKO TEX certified upholsteries and use low VOC glues and wood stains, that qualifies them for the GreenGuard GOLD certification in many of their products. Not perfect, but I appreciate their step in the right direction setting a better standard for big name brands and still being a source of relatively affordable non toxic furniture.
Is IKEA furniture non toxic? They offer much healthier furniture options than most standard stores in the US, and they are very clear about exactly why that is true, with published lists on limits of chemicals in every product. They do not use lead, added formaldehyde, or BPA in any of their products. Most of their products are free of flame retardants, except for children’s tents and part of the zippers on their mattresses. Their material transparency is both amazing, and sobering, because it helps you understand how much less healthy and intentional the vast majority of US furniture brands are.
Is West Elm non toxic? Like the other large department stores listed here, they now have some imperfect but healthier options. Their couches are made with a mixture of solid and engineered wood, regular polyurethane foam and polyester upholstery— but, they do have GreenGuard GOLD certification, so while the materials aren’t as healthy as brands listed above, it’s a step in the right direction, and at least you won’t experience off-gassing. West Elm is owned by Pottery Barn, so their material health ratings are the same, and they also have not announced that they are PFAS free as of late 2025. In short, expect a better than average but imperfectly healthy piece of furniture, and ask them lots of questions while shopping. You can use my free Material Health Guides to help make decisions, if you’d like.
Is Pottery Barn non toxic? They have some healthier options, and use GOTS and OEKO TEX fabrics in some products. Pottery Barn still hasn’t formally announced that their furniture is PFAS free as of late 2025— see their sustainability standards here. They use standard polyurethane foams, a mixture of engineered wood and solid wood, and their upholstery options are mostly polyester. They do not use Flame Retardants. I would email them to confirm there are no PFAS in the product you want. Their finishes, stains, and glues are confirmed low VOC and their GreenGuard GOLD certificates do mean that those products shouldn’t off-gas as much.
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What makes furniture non-toxic?
To be considered non-toxic, every material used in a piece of furniture, including how it was processed and how it is finished, should be harmless to your health. This includes:
Frame: whether the furniture is made with a metal or wood frame, a healthier version is left unfinished, or is finished in non-toxic stain or paint. Though there are very few third party certifications for stains, finishes, and paints, GreenGuard GOLD can confirm low off-gassing, and GreenSeal will confirm that other harmful chemicals (that may not necessarily off-gas) are not present.
Furniture glues: healthy furniture should be held together with non-toxic adhesives, screws, or joinery. Though there are very few third party certifications for glues, GreenGuard GOLD can confirm low off-gassing.
Upholstery: if upholstered, both the filling and fabric should be processed and treated without harmful chemicals. OEKO TEX certified polyester and GOLS certified latex mean that the filling does not contain flame retardants, and both are better options than polyurethane foam. Fabric should be OEKO TEX certified or GOTS certified organic, which means it does not have toxic dyes, or PFAS-containing waterproofing or stain repellant treatments applied.
This can be a lot to keep track of, so I have a Material Guide for each component of furniture. At the bottom of each guide, is a useful and visual rating scale that can help you visually understand the nuances. I use these to stay unbiased and consistent when I’m analyzing products for the shop. I hope they’re useful for you, too.
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