Adhesives, Gluing Boards Together

Most wooden cutting boards are made from smaller, cheaper pieces of wood that are glued together using one of several commonly available types of glue. While many of the types of glue used to assemble cutting boards are non-toxic and are considered food safe for indirect uses, some are not and contain toxic chemicals including formaldehyde. Have you ever seen which type of glue was used to assemble a cutting board listed in its description? Me neither. If it were, some of the common ones may be aliphatic resin glue, polyurethane glue, or modified PVA glue. Aliphatic resin glue, or yellow wood glue, for example contains Polyvinyl acetate, 2,2,4-Trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol diisobutyrate, talc, Aluminum chloride, Polyvinyl alcohol, Dipropylene glycol monomethyl ether, and quaternium-15, which is a preservative. Again, all of these are considered safe, we’re not trying to imply that they're not. At the end of the day though, all of these glues, safe or not are essentially petrol-chemical derived plastics.

Our cutting boards do not use glue. They are made from a single hardwood slab of natural, hardwood lumber.