Organic mattress lovers will be interested to hear about a recent article claiming some organic mattresses contain fire retardant chemicals. What a shock, surely the whole point is to get away from chemicals and sleep on a pure surface! Just so you know this is catagorically unacceptable at buyOrganics!
These companies site the reason for using fire retardants in their organic mattresses as due to fire safety regulations and law. This is actually not accurate, in the UK anyway. In fact what is required is that any mattress pass a flame test, the surface should not smolder if a light is held to it for a designated amount of time. This flame retardency can normally only be achieved through use of flame retardant chemicals, however it can also be achieved through natural means, some companies just don’t have the know how of how to do this naturally and without chemicals.
We can proudly say that our Organic mattresses have achieved fire safety tests and have the BS7177 test naturally without the use of any fire retardent chemicals and are Soil Association certified also
Studies have shown that flame retardants migrate into the blood stream of humans; In addition, Dioxin, a bleaching agent, and formaldehyde are two other unpleasant chemicals which may be found in a conventional mattress that can cause health problems.
To ensure that you are getting the most out of your organic mattress, ensure you get synthetic dye free organic cotton sheets, under blankets and protectors. We have combined the best organic mattresses with the most sumptuous organic sheets together at buyOrganics.
All in all, when buying, be careful to check that the organic mattress you are buying does not contain fire retardents and is in fact pure organic as ours are.
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