Green Mattress – Organic Mattress
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We spend many hours on a mattress, making it one of the biggest investments in your health.
How can a mattress be an organic mattress? There do no appear to be any organizations like the USDA certifying mattresses to be organic, yet the term is used all over the marketplace. A factory could be third party certified as meeting organic rules.
Clearly many mainstream mattresses are made of synthetic materials like polyurethane, have chemical treatments applied to them, and have poses a chemical VOC off gassing problem.
A green mattress or organic mattress can utilize 100% USDA certified organic cotton, natural rubber latex core, 100% pure organic wool, FSC Certified wood foundation. This all comes at a price of course. Many are twice as expensive as the typical mattress and are only sold at few outlets. Some green mattresses are certified by GreenGuard, like the ones from Lifekind, Naturepedic, and Organic Mattresses.
These are criteria to look for in a new green mattress, organic mattress, or crib:
1) No chemicals, formaldehyde, PBDE’s, toxic glue, petroleum products, no off gassing
2) Natural latex rubber – Hypoallergenic, durable
3) Organic cotton and wool quilting – Pass fire standard law of July 30, 2007
4) Cotton Fiber free – Prevents dust mites, mold
Green Memory Foam Mattresses have similar qualities. We will spend 1/3 of our life on these things, so it pays to think carefully about this purchase.
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August 6th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
It seems like myessentia’s website is rather outdated. There are dozens of manufacturers of memory foam in the U.S. Several of them make petroleum-free memory foam as well.
We offer one such mattress manufactured in California (Miforma).
The fact is though, despite attempts to make mattresses greener, even ones made with soy or rubber tree oils instead of petroleum, they still have foaming agents added if they are latex and other chemicals if they are memory foams to generate the poly-urethane like foam. These have not been conclusively associated to any major health issues, but it is difficult to scientifically prove some of the complaints that have been associated with chemicals in mattresses. There is definitely a difference between individual’s level of sensitivity to the chemicals that permeate from a bed, especially if it’s new.
At this point the only mattresses that are truly chemically free and do not pose sensitivity problems to some are organic cotton and wool beds.
Anything else that is naturally based is just MOSTLY chemical free, or partly depending on the reality of the manufacturing.
We do have a much higher rate of complaints for Tempur-pedic, than the Miforma beds. The level of gas permeating from a new mattress is very low for the Miforma product comparitively.
Good luck!
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:32 am
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