Organic Cotton and Wool Mattress

How did you interpret the title of this post? I presumed (correctly) that you were thinking that the mattress that I am going to tell you in this article is containing natural materials; organic cotton and organic wool. Unfortunately, that is not the case here. This is exactly how some mattress companies play with the words and the structure of their sales pitches. In marketing world, words are wisdom and they can be manipulated; twisted and turned to hypnotize you into thinking what you are thinking. To some extent, some geniuses may be able to perform “make-believe” miracles such as turning a gas stove into a refrigerator. That is how marketing works. That is how you would believe that an organic cotton and wool mattress is a 100% orgnaic mattress.

Read again the title and tell me what you think. Got it? If you still can’t get the “actual” picture here, it is all right. I won’t blame you. These days we are so used to see thousands of ads everyday; newspapers, TVs, magazines, stores, hypermarkets, Walmart, and almost everywhere. It is easy to be misled by these types of ads and sometimes we just laughed at how idiot we were when we first read the lines. We didn’t read in between the lines. Our brain is a complex organ yet a stupid one unless we train it to be able to interpret one simple phrase into several meanings.

Whenever you go to a mattress stor and the sales rep told you that their mattresses are made from “organic cotton and wool”, you should be very wary about it. Ask him again; is the mattress made from “organic cotton” and “organic wool”? If he startled a bit (the trick didn’t work), then most probably the mattress he showed is not a 100% natural organic mattress. You have just been tricked into believing that the mattress is totally a organic mattress. This trick is commonly used since it works almost all the time. Why does it work? Because the moment someone said “organic”, your brain picked up that word and interpreted the whole phrase as one; therefor you would believe that the mattress is made from both organic cotton and organic wool.

So how to recognize or identify which mattress is a total 100% natural organic mattress? In my last post, I mentioned about NAOMI, an association that put up some standards to certify a mattress as organic. However, as far as I am concerned, the mattres association has not yet received any recognition from the whole industry that produce natural organic mattress. In other words, the standards produced were more like a self-proclaimed statement by certain companies to create hypes that their mattresses are the only certified organic mattresses. Well, I don’t want to go details about that so I leave that to the experts to decide. However, the standards produced by the so-called association can still be used to get the basic idea to decide whether the mattress is “natural” enough for you or for your kisd. You can visit my post here at Natural Organic Mattress.

Some of the standards listed described what type of wools can be called organic wool. Organic wool should be free from any chemical substances. Chemical-free means the wool should be obtained in an environment that is free from any chemical usage such as the foods given to the sheep (there have to be organic food), the process taken to garnet and card the wool, and so on. If any of these standards are not followed, then the wools produced are no longer 100% organic. But hell, we have been already living in a world full of chemicals (cars’ smokes for instance), why can’t we live with a 90% to 95% organic wool? We may not get the purest but as long as we know that the materials are made from controlled environment, that should be fine. To me, at least.

Wool is used in mattress production due to the fact that it is a plushy material. Plushy means comfort and comfort means you will get a good night sleep. A good nite sleep then means you will wake up from your bed feeling good and fresh like a princess. Or a prince, if you are a guy lol. That is why wool has been used in producing mattresses for years and since now we know the importance of using organic materials for better helath, organic mattress manufacturers have taken efforts to ensure all the materials used are at least 90% to 95% organic.

We all know for fact that kids are exposed to all sorts of threats every day. We do our best to avoid and to prevent bad things from happening to them. Asthma is one of those threats. Can we avoid our kids from getting asthma? Yes, we can but there are no guarantees to that. What we can do though is we have to do our best to avoid using allergenic items around our house. Stop feeding our kids with allergenic foods. Start using organic mattress for our kids.

Another good thing about using wools in producing organic mattress is its ability to insulate where then your body can naturally regulate your body temperature during the nights. You won’t feel hot or cold spots when sleeping and therefore you are less than likely to turn and toss on your bed. In short, you will be sleeping more comfortably on organic mattress than the regular comfort mattress.

How do we avoid our mattress from breeding dust mites? It will cost you a lot to buy repellants to repel dust mites. By the way repellants got chemicals in them and therefore they just defeat our intention to not using inorganic materials in our house. This is where organic mattress gains more popularity than standard mattress. Why? It is because of the wool. From what I have learned, each strand of woll has a coating of lanolin (wool wax or fat) that help to repel dust mites. This is due to the fact that each wool’s strand create a dreary environment that make it impossible for dust mites to settle in. As you know, mites only live in a damp environment. So they just can’t stand the dryness.

I believe so far we have covered few things that you should know before making an informed decision to get yourself a natural organic mattress. There are still few things we need to cover and we will do that in our next discussion.

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.