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Wood Sealer/shellac Is It Toxic?

#1 User is offline   Darl 

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Posted 06 December 2007 - 02:26 PM

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this question. I'm making toys and would like to seal the wood. This product says it will dry nontoxic and hypoallergenic. I believe it is called Zinnser. I'm hoping it would be safe for my bird. Any thoughts?
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 03:27 PM

why would you want to seal the wood?
Personaly I would not, use food coloring or koolaid for the coloring and just let them have it..anything like that woudl scare me...
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 03:39 PM

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I agree, I wouldn't do it.
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 03:47 PM

Even if the sealer was non-toxic, you must realize that birds are going to chew it off anyways. So I'm not sure what the point would be to doing that?

Also, if you're selling those toys, I would say that sealing them would decrease the amount of toys you would sell. As a parrot owner, I know I would never buy anything that was sealed for my birds, even if I knew it was 100% non-toxic.
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 05:27 PM

the sealer wasn't for chew toys. the sealer was for the floor bottom of a "happy hut". i do appreciate the input.
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