Green Mattresses – Organic Mattresses

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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 organic? 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.

Green mattresses 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.

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Posted on May 23rd, 2009
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4 Responses to “Green Mattresses – Organic Mattresses”

jason Says:
June 30th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
You may want to check out my site as well.

We make the only natural memory foam in the world.

Biodegradable mattresses that are super comfortable.
Greg Says:
July 6th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
We offer great organic mattresses and Organic mattress products. Great products 100% certified Organic
john Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
We recently had a green closet built in our home and we’re very pleased with the company that had built it. Our real struggle came when we were looking for a green mattress. The confusion was with so many choices and what is a green mattress defined by the company that manufactures it. After a lot of research we decided to purchase from a small family owned company outside of Chicago My Green Mattress. We felt that this company explained the most on why their mattress line is considered green and that buying green also has to do with the company footprint itself. My Green Mattress makes a grand effort to do what it can to be green today and be greener tomorrow. Think about it if a huge company makes a green mattress but wastes a lot of energy and produces a lot of waste in the process then is that mattress really green? Did I mention that if you buy from them locally they deliver with moving blankets so there is no plastic to throw in the garbage. Sleeping Green! Spirit
Devin@Back to Bed Mattress Stores Says:
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!