Be careful when you buy furniture for you baby. Avoid those “furniture kits” with panels made of plywood or melamine. Plywood and melamine contain formaldehyde, a product possibly associated with cancer (National Cancer Institute).

Ideally, buy untreated hard wood furniture , then treat it yourself with an organic or homemade polish.

More and more companies offer bio bamboo products. Bamboo products are great for the environment because they will last for a long time and bamboo grows fast (fastest known growing plant on Earth!)

If you are thinking to put wallpaper in baby’s bedroom, rethink your idea. The wallpaper itself and the glue used to stick the wallpaper to the walls both contain toxic volatile organic compounts (VOCs) that can be harmful.

Avoid wallpapers and instead, opt for natural, eco and or organic paints. Those paints usually contain flax oils, water and turpentine oils. Those products are much less toxic than those used in synthetic paints (polyurethane, white-spirit, hydrocarbons, etc)

When choosing your paints, read the labels and go to a specialize store. The clerk there will know more about the different eco and natural paints available at their store.

Watch out for water paints. They are not always safe and often contains glycol ethers, that are just as dangerous as the previously listed of chemicals.