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Click here Natural vs. synthetic blend. Since I loved the Talalay pillows by LI I just wondered what chemicals were used. Does my pillows (all 4 of them) have chemicals in them, are they blended? This message was modified Mar 21, 2010 by Leo3
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I would take the "information" Saavy Rest posts on their website with a grain of salt. Anytime a company touts their product and claims that another process or product is not as good I automatically discount all of their information. This is one of the reasons I wouldn't personally buy from Saavy Rest. 100% natural Talalay and blended Talalay latex are both excellent products and in no way inferior to Dunlop - in fact, the reverse could just as easily be argued. |
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EDIT: Edited for accuracy see post #9 Looking over the savyrest link they list small amounts of "sodium silicofluoride" used as a gelling agent in the latex. sodium silicofluoride is used in small amounts to flouridate water. Is it safe ? ..... well I'm not going to loose any sleep over it, because I know it's a 100 % ionic compound that will not soak into my skin pores even if I sleep on the bare mattress and sweat. Also sodium silicofluoride is a compound with no vapor pressure. PBDE's used in Memory foam products are covalent-organic compound that could slowly soak into your skin when you sweat. This message was modified Mar 23, 2010 by zzzombie
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| I did read at Latex International that they do rinse out the chemicals used to process the latex. Click here LI says they rinse 5 times. I feel better now. |
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I believe they all rinse out their finished products. Latexco and latex green do this also. EDIT: Edited for accuracy see post #9 This message was modified Mar 23, 2010 by zzzombie
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They definitely are much safer than normal materials that are used in mattress construction. However they feel so vastly different from 100% natural rubber. I have heard that Styrene Butadiene (synthetic latex) is a suspected carcinogen, although what exactly that means I don't really know....do you think there could be any potential truth to this? |
| I was unable to sleep on a 100% synthetic latex pillow due to my allergies but I have no problems with the Talalay latex pillows due to the rinse cycle so I feel that Talalay Latex rinses away the chemicals enough that they don't bother me at all and I am highly sensitive to chemicals and I could not handle the roll out containers under my latex bed for keeping out of season clothes. I am now leaving nothing under my bed so I can vaccuum my room real good. After my busy season, I plan to remove the carpet in my bedroom also like I have downstairs. |
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budgy wrote:
They definitely are much safer than normal materials that are used in mattress construction. However they feel so vastly different from 100% natural rubber. I have heard that Styrene Butadiene (synthetic latex) is a suspected carcinogen, although what exactly that means I don't really know....do you think there could be any potential truth to this? This message was modified Mar 23, 2010 by zzzombie
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| I don't know of any company outright labelling blended latex as being 'natural'. There are even some latex foam companies that list SBR rubber as an ingredient. If the polymer used was indeed just isoprene whether it be synthetic or natural than how would a 3rd party company actually test for this? |
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budgy I stand corrected. Right from the horses mouth. http://www.latexfoam.com/index.php?did=12#10 This message was modified Mar 23, 2010 by zzzombie
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@budgy google this term "styrene butadiene cancer". Seems that the studies relate to factories that deal with the monomers. Butadiene monmer is quite volitle and also carcinogenic. Styrene is probably also carcinogenic. The polymer of the 2 is probably relativly safe, however there's always going to be small amounts of un-reacted materials present, however most latex mfg's wash their unfinished products which would remove 99% of that. thanks for correcting me. that changes my purchasing decision to only 100% natural latex. |