Is solid wood furniture environmentally friendly? It depends on what paint!

Solid wood furniture has always been the shackles of the furniture industry. It has been popular for many years and is enduring. As people's awareness of environmental protection continues to increase, it has increasingly attracted everyone's pursuit of solid wood furniture.

However, the failure of random inspection of solid wood furniture, including the problem of excessive formaldehyde content, is also a common topic in the furniture industry. In many cases, the main reason is still on the wood paint.

We all know that the current common furniture is divided into two categories of solid wood furniture and panel furniture, but the texture of solid wood furniture is relatively weak. In order to prevent deformation or cracking of solid wood, it is necessary to use wood lacquer for protection.

The wood lacquer contains substances harmful to the human body such as benzene series. Therefore, the environmental protection of wood lacquer and furniture has a great correlation. Even solid wood furniture may not necessarily be environmentally friendly, but also have to look at the paint!

However, most people pay attention to the value, price, etc. when choosing wooden furniture, but few people pay attention to the paint surface of wooden furniture. Choosing the wrong paint, even pure solid wood furniture will release a variety of harmful substances, endangering health.

What is wood lacquer?

Wood lacquer is all kinds of coatings that can be used on the surface of wood. It can be divided into water lacquer, oil lacquer and wood wax oil.

It has two main functions, one is to make furniture beautiful, and the other is to protect furniture and reduce its impact on pollution or wet and dry changes.

The surface of solid wood veneer furniture, multi-layer solid wood composite, three-layer solid wood composite, and pure solid wood furniture on the market are all painted (of course, painted at the time of production).

Water-based paint

Environmentally friendly water-based paint, water-based paint is a coating with water as a dispersion medium, non-toxic, non-polluting. Many people are biased about water-based paints.

Water-based paints are considered to be less than oily paints in terms of hardness, abrasion resistance and scratch resistance. In fact, water-based paint is also divided into three or six, etc.: low-grade water-based paint with acrylic as the main raw material, the performance is low, and the water-based paint has attracted a lot of black.

The mid-range water-based paint is based on a composite of acrylic acid and water-based polyurethane, which improves the hardness, but the chemical properties (such as poor resistance to alcohol and alkali) are still relatively low.

High-grade water-based paints are mainly made of acrylic-modified water-based polyurethane. Both physical properties and chemical properties are strong, and some indicators even exceed oil-based paints.

Oil paint

Solvent-based coatings (oily paints/paints) are coatings that use organic solvents as the dispersion medium.

Although the environmental performance is not good, oil paint still has many inherent advantages: low purchase price, good paintability, flexible film, good permeability... This is also the main reason for its high acceptance.

Oily paint is divided into many kinds, what pu paint nc paint uv paint pe paint are all oily paint ... after listening to others to listen to these words on the tall, do not be scared.

Wood wax oil

The main component of the wood wax oil is vegetable oil, and the coloring is made of a pigment such as iron oxide, and the toxic and harmful volatile substances such as benzene and formaldehyde are eliminated from the raw material, and the environmental performance thereof exceeds that of the water-based paint.

And from the perspective of manufacturing or use, wood wax oil consumes less environmental resources and is more beneficial to ecology and health.

But the difference is that wood wax oil can't cover the ugly. It has no hiding power and will deepen the chromatic aberration of the wood itself, making the enamel of the wood more obvious, but many people are now better.

How to distinguish between wood wax or paint?

Because of its open coating method, wood wax oil can fully display the details of wood and retain the natural uneven texture of the wood, so the touch is also rough.

The paint will form a paint film on the surface of the wood. When the paint film is thick to a certain extent, it will produce a higher gloss. Therefore, the touch is smoother and looks more glossy.

However, the natural texture of the wood is not felt when touched, and there is a false feeling compared with the wood made of wood wax.

All in all, there is no need to say more about environmental protection: wood paint > water-based paint > oil paint. Therefore, not all solid wood furniture is environmentally friendly, and there are many things in it. I hope everyone will analyze it carefully!