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Re: Plush Beds - budgy
Oct 21, 2010 12:28 PM
Regarding the term organic and natural latex.  No matter how pure the process is, natural rubber foam should never truly be labelled as organic.  A company I deal with called Green Sleep has used organic farming methods on their own rubber tree plantation for years, they also process their own natural dunlop rubber and from the test sheets I have seen they are the purest most elastic rubber cores available.  They do NOT label their rubber organic, they can just merely say that it is organically grown.  There will always be small amounts of zinc oxide and sulfur ash added into the product to turn it into foam...although these are technically natural vulcanizing agents they are not technically organic.  Just for the same reason that you would not actually label a spring system organic.  Note that this does not mean in any way shape or form that natural rubber or...
Re: Body Impressions ... opinions from people who have been around for a long time? - budgy
Oct 18, 2010 4:26 PM
obviously as with everything there are varying degrees of quality to all types of materials.  There are 'bad' poly foam's and 'good' polyfoams.  Personally I would be weary of any claim that a plastic based material will be as durable as something rubber based.  Ask a chemist what he thinks and you will get a straight answer on that, ask a poly foam manufacturer and you get marketing.  As we have seen with polyfoam, although there are likely many factors the durability is almost directly proportionate to density.  And even the highest density polyfoams (7lb Tempur foam and 8lb Venus foam) do get tremendously softer with use.  As Phoenix pointed out, we had the resilitex stuff from foamex a while ago.  I remember when that stuff came out and I was told by sales reps from Serta at the time that the stuff was like latex on steroids.  I would...
Re: Body Impressions ... opinions from people who have been around for a long time? - budgy
Oct 12, 2010 10:50 PM
It used to be far more rare for spring mattresses to compress to the point of getting permanent 1.5~2" body indentations.  A certain amount of compression is expected in any mattress, although at a certain point it is no longer desirable. 

When you have a mattress that is made of closed cell foam such as what is mostly used today you have a structure on top of a spring system that is designed to support your body....think in some pillowtop mattresses now there can be copious amounts of foam (over 5 inches), enough in some cases that the spring system itself is essentially irrelevant.  The issue with closed cell polyurethane foam is that you essentially have trapped air inside each cell...when this is compressed you are forcing air through a closed cell wall into adjacent cells, causing degradation to the cell walls and reducing support.  Eventually leading to...

Re: Does Latex Sag, Indent, or otherwise deteriorate? Also: Costco & Sam's. - budgy
Oct 5, 2010 1:25 PM
i honestly believe any latex mattress will have to take atleast some minimal compression in the surface.  whether someone was using polyurethane foam, polyester fibre, or wool as a fire retardant layer they will all take some compaction in the surface.  open up the mattress (if you can) and inspect the actual latex it always looks virtually brand new.  This is my experience at looking at any customers bed whether it be latex international, latex green, dunlo-pillo, or green sleep latex cores. 

I don't know if there is a legal way to build any finished mattress that will not sag one bit.  you would almost just have to buy several different layers of latex yourself and get a simple cotton mattress cover for it, this would be the least amount of sag with a latex mattress.  Or in my experience it seems that Tempur Pedic mattresses hardly take...

Re: Heat issues of latex and memory foam - budgy
Oct 2, 2010 1:26 PM
I wasn't even trying to refute your statement as to why poly foam was introduced...I was speaking of heat.  On the topic of flammability, polyurethane foams without additional chemicals added are incredibly flammable, more so than even cotton batting which was the main upholstery of choice before polyurethane foam was being used extensively. 

There are MANY manufacturers of high quality latex mattresses that do not use polyurethane foam in some or most or all of their models.

-Natura, Flobeds, SavvyRest, SleepTek, Obasan, GreenSleep, Royal Pedic, OrganicPedic, VitalRest, WJ Southard, to name a few...there are many more that I have not listed. 

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Re: Natural Latex mattress Sam's Club - roy1
Sep 29, 2010 7:15 AM
KimberlyH wrote:

 

Roy, I don't know whether Marlene's misinformation is "deliberate," but it is misinformation.  I replied to her about the issue in this thread:

 

http://www.whatsthebest-mattress.com/forum/costco-latex-mattress-vs-sams-club-latex-mattress/11296-0-1.html.

Specifically:

"No Marlene, you are wrong. 

Sam's Club sells two latex mattresses.  One is 100% latex and the other is not.  These mattresses are made by Innomax.

The American Sleep Organic Mattress  sold by Sam's Club is a 100% latex mattress.  It is the same as the White Night Premium Organic Sleep System sold by Innomax.  The "ultra form" you mention just refers to zoned Dunlop latex.  Innomax sources their latex from Latexco, which makes zoned Dunlop...

Re: Plush Beds - Phoenix
Oct 21, 2010 1:06 PM
Latex green already has an organic certification for their latex cores ... several of the links I posted have them in their mattresses. This is different from their 100% natural product.

Up until recently most people (that I talked to anyway) believed that this was simply a "relabeling" of their 100% natural product (at a higher price of course) using latex that had been segregated from their "main" plantation and certified as not using any pesticides in the early years of the trees growth and all the other things that "certification" requires, however there are some indications that their organic latex is qualitatively different from their 100% natural latex.

NAOMI "organic"

http://www.naomiorganics.com/naomicertifiedvendors.html

Phoenix

PS: Changed one of the links to the Bedroom magazine article instead of a vendors article.

Added later: link to USDA certified latex article...

Re: Plush Beds - Phoenix
Oct 15, 2010 7:04 PM
Just to give a few more examples of natural and organic.

 

I didn't include these guys in my previous list but you can get an idea of how far some stores will go in their search for something really organic. They actually do third party testing on their materials apparently (not just rely on manufacturer specs and testing).

http://www.purerest.com/Mattresses/100-Organic-9-Pillowtop-Mattress

Queen with 8" of organic Dunlop latex is $2378

http://www.purerest.com/Mattresses/10-Certified-Organic-Rubber-Mattresses

Queen with 9" of organic Dunlop latex is $2548

They also have a mattress which has 9" (3x3) of Dunlop latex which is identical to the 9" organic except the Dunlop is only 100% Natural and it is on "special" for $1399.

The outer stuff (cotton wool etc) is the same they told me.

http://www.purerest.com/Mattresses/10-Budget-Mattress-Comparable-to-Other-Suppliers

 

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Re: Plush Beds - Phoenix
Oct 15, 2010 2:56 PM
You'll notice that Habitat didn't make it into my top 10 (or so) list from a previous post and wouldn't make it into my top 20 either. Great marketing but I'd question the accuracy of some of what they're saying ... and I'd love to be making his profits.

About OMI and "organics" in general.

There is a lot of misinformation here and this misinformation was part of a long conversation I had today and has also been the topic of other long conversations with many others.

In general, people are misusing the term "organic" and confusing it with "natural". People are also putting organic covers on mattresses that have all natural materials like 100% natural Talalay or Dunlop and then calling the mattress organic. This is absolute misinformation.

At the moment (and this may soon change) there is only one type...

Re: Adjustable Bed-Latex-OMI OrganicPedic-Flobeds - Phoenix
Oct 8, 2010 3:01 PM
I lay on the OMI terra bed and it was absolutely wonderful. Unfortunately wonderful here meant insanely expensive. The other OMI beds I lay on were also very nice but I believe also overpriced and not as nice as the Terra. While I acknowledge that their level of "organicy" (if there is such a word) is probably higher than any other manufacturer, their price definately shows it.

I have done a lot of research into latex beds and I discovered that many smaller or medium size mattress manufacturers will sell direct to the public at prices lower even than Sleep EZ which in turn has lower prices than flo-beds and savvy rest. The problem with this is that most of them will make a custom bed for you but they do not have "layer exchanges" like Sleep EZ or Flo beds or savvy rest or foam sweet foam...

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