Organic Cotton Mattress

I have noticed that these days people are quite conscious about their health and how items around their houses can affect their health. Lifestyle is no more about having latest gadgets in the house. Lifestyle is about enjoying a healthy one. A healthy lifestyle means taking care of the family and buying household items that are contributing directly or indirectly to the health. Fortunately, the household items industry is well-informed of this trend and therefore they have taken additional efforts by researching for more ways to manufacture and produce better products. That is why it is quite easy to find organic cotton mattresses in the market.

An organic cotton mattress is considered one of the best solutions to help in preventing breath-related diseases from spreading in the house. Breath-related diseases such as asthma and pneumonia are dangerous diseases especially to babies and kids and therefore it is crucial to choose the right household items to be purchased and placed in your house. Since we live in the era where people are sleeping on mattresses, mattress is the main source of dusts and mites. The mattress’s beddings and pillows as well as bolsters are also sources of dusts and mites. How do we stop the dusts and mites from heaping up in the mattress?

For many years, we don’t even know what it means by organic mattress. We are clueless of the importance of using organic materials in the mattress to prevent unwanted diseases from spreading in our family. We don’t realize that the standard lab-made mattresses that we use contained chemicals that are harmful especially to children. After many years, some researchers found out about this and then we learned about chemicals called “phlates”. Only after that we learned that the “normal synthetic mattress” that we have been using for years is harmful to our kids.

Currently there are many mattress manufacturers that produce organic mattress. Some are made from 100% cottons and some are made from 100% wools. There are also organic mattresses that are made from both cottons and wools. These mattresses are called “organic” since they are made from “organic materials”. Cotton is an organic material. So does wool. Both cotton and wool have special capabilities that qualified them to be processed to make organic mattresses. Even some of their unique capabilities are known to us and yet we don’t realize them.

There are many pros and cons when it comes to using organic mattress. “Pros” are the advantages that are usually cheered by the marketers to build the reputations for organic cotton mattress. “Cons” are disadvantages of using “organic cotton mattress” and as you correctly guessed, they usually are words from traditional synthetic mattress producers. Simmons for example is a well known mattress manufacturer and they have been producing many great mattresses; thanks to their intensive research and developments. However, Simmons is not the first mattress manufacturers that produces organic cotton mattress. Its technology so far is still with the standard synthetic mattress.

So if standard synthetic mattress is bad for your health, why organic cotton mattress is good for your health? The answer to this question is still subjective to this date but we can always conclude that “organic” is always good for your health. Everyone knows this fact. Organic water is always a better choice than recycled water. Organic foods are better than foods that contain chemicals such as preservatives and synthetic flavors. In short, I can assure you that an organic cotton mattress is suitable to produce a good and healthy sleeping environment for your kids as well as for your family. As I have mentioned earlier, cotton is a friendly organic material and that is why it is used widely in producing organic mattress.

Using an organic cotton mattress means you are using a chemical-free mattress. The mattress is made from natural resources such as cotton and wool. Wool is used for various reasons and one of them is because of wool capability of absorbing moist therefore it helps to keep the mattress dry at all times. However, some people are really concern about man-made items and since wools gone through several processes before it can be used, cotton mattresses appear to be 100% natural mattresses.

The Popularity of Organic Cotton Mattress

If there is organic cotton, then there must be conventional cotton. Conventional cottons are produced widely in many countries. Unfortunately, the cotton farms are heavily sprayed with pesticides and chemical fertilizers are used to keep the crops pests-free and fertilized. These pesticides that are commonly used on cotton crops especially in the United States have been identified as chemicals that could cause cancers and therefore they are harmful to humans. Some chemicals are also dangerous since they could cause birth defects and other rare diseases. The worst part is when the cottons are used in clothing productions as well as in furniture industry. During the manufacturing processes, the conventional cottons are added with more toxic chemicals. Would you want to sleep on this kind of mattress?

This is where the natural organic cotton comes into place. The natural organic cottons are considered “natural” and “organic” when they are grown in crops that are not sprayed with any kind of chemicals. If they happened to be planted in sprayed fields, the fields have to be free from being sprayed at least for three years before they are qualified to be chemical-free fields. Of course the cottons produced from these types of crops are lesser in terms of their quality but since they are nurtured naturally, they have more values to human health and therefore if they are used to make household items, they are good for your health.

The natural organic cotton mattress is probably high in price due to its exceptional values. Of course, a good product comes with expensive price tag but I rather spend thousands on this kind of mattress than spending the money to buy synthetic mattress. Why would I waste my money on products that are harmful to my kids and my babies? I would spend my money to buy an organic cotton mattress, an organic mattress cover, toppers, and so on. The more organic products around, I will feel more comfortable and at least my mind is free from thinking about dangerous things that could happen to my kids in my own house.