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Coco-latex vs Latex Green? Any info?

Feb 14, 2010 6:52 PM

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katarina2000

Joined: Feb 14, 2010
Points: 7

We have been comparing product & prices of latex beds and we are interested in dunlap latex. Which appears to be most eco friendly. We also do not want latex/mattress/cover that has any chemicals that are meant to make the mattress flame retardant as we don't want to breathe all the off gasses for the 8-9 hours of sleep. From research, the organic cotton & wool blend make the mattress naturally flame retardant plus the wool helps minimize bed bugs, not to mention that i makes the bed feel cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Also, bed bugs do not thrive on latex, thus less allergens.

I was curious to see compare prices on organic cover 10" king mattress....lets say from Sleep EZ vs Savvy Rest and it is a significant $500 difference. So, I am doing a little more digging......this is what I uncovered so far:

Coco-latex is made in India, eco friendly, bio degradable, etc. - This appears to be used by savvyrest.

There is a lab report on SavvyRest's website that shows that most of the chemicals that were tested were not detected.

Latex-Green is made in Sri Lanka - natural dunlap latex used in the organic line on SleepEZ
http://www.latexgreen.com/fr.html
this is what caught my eye and made me wonder how many undisclosed chemicals are used by this company to make the latex since they claim that:

"Fire Retardant Cores / Sheets

Latex Green has designed and manufactured a Flame Retardant mattress, which conforms to BS and EU Standards. On the tests carried out by SATRA Technology Centre, it was confirmed that FR mattress meet the requirements of Schedule I part III of the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988, (amended 1989 & 1993).

In the first application during the test it was observed that there were NO flames after the removal of the flaming source and smouldering ceased after 21 seconds .In the second application, flames self-extinguished 4 seconds after the removal of the flaming source and smouldering ceased 24 seconds later. According to BS standards the time should be less than 60 seconds."

So.....what I uncovered about Latex-Green makes me a little concerned about how 'all natural' and healthy it really is.

Any helpful info would be appreciated.

Thanks.

organicmom

Joined: Jun 7, 2010
Points: 1

The only thing I have on these is that the 2 test results for chemicals are very different. Cocolatex has a lot of toluene equivalent chemicals and some ash as a filler. Latex Green Test results posted on a site I was perusing, were very clean for vocs. As for quality, I had heard ash was bad as a filler, will break down quicker, but I also heard that the difference was 20 years or so for Latex Green and about 10 years or so for Cocolatex. However, not sure I would keep my mattress more than 10 years anyway. But the chemical issue kept bothering me. I guess I prefer a clean voc-free mattress and would not consider buying a mattress that I had seen results proving they had vocs, vvocs, and other strange chemical content.

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