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know your furniture material chemical

So many kinds of chemicals around us, so according to experts more than 50% of them have not even had a name type. For those of us quite know what types of chemicals are most dangerous for health, especially the chemistry that comes from outside our bodies.

At home, the furniture has a significant role in terms of total emissions and hazardous chemical cargo. Moreover also, because it was always in the room, emission resides in your home air longer. Hence, the ventilation and good air circulation is very important in your home.

Formaldehyde
Volatile and widely used in many products to keep the fungus attacks or to make non-flammable material. This chemical works well to glue materials, textiles, or other adhesive. Most of the furniture that uses raw materials such as boards made of MDF, particle board, blockboard contains formaldehyde.

It is impossible if we completely avoided, but there are several ways to reduce or avoid these chemicals are in your home:
1. Wherever possible buy furniture made from solid wood, especially wood that does not require chemical processing of wood preservation. For example, teak, acacia and other.
2. Ask the seller about the kind of furniture MDF or plywood they use if you want furniture made of artificial board. Type E1 has low emissions and secure. This material is more expensive than regular MDF.

VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds)
This chemical is a gas that evaporates from the finishing materials for furniture. Total emissions of each different type of finishing.
Check more observant types of furniture finishing that you want to buy, whether to use oil materials, solvent based, water based, or other solid material. To determine the size of the emission usually furniture or a paint factory would send samples of material to do the test in the laboratory in particular.

Heavy metal
This means that in the Indonesian language is 'heavy metal'. There are more than 30 chemical species of heavy metals (some good for health) and between them extremely dangerous if the body and our blood contains too many 'heavy metals'.
These chemicals include: arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury.

Finishing furniture either duco paint or oil containing 4 of these harmful chemicals. You can also meet on textiles, such as seat upholstery fabric.


PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride)
Look at the materials other than wood such as plastic, whether there is a label type of plastic or PVC? Especially the children most sensitive to the type of chemical PVC. When PVC was burned will release chemicals that can cause cancer.
Also in the entire production process of PVC is potentially damaging to the environment because it can not be recycled.

Check the back of the furniture that you will buy because the air in your home will always contain harmful chemicals.

Author : Draker_Ster is the owner of the website which specialists in offering indoor and outdoor furniture.