Memory foam mattresses usually have the highest ratings for comfort, durability, and customer satisfaction. One of the only complaints owners have is about memory foam smell. This unpleasant odor is caused by the materials used to make the mattress and lasts up to 4 weeks. The good news is that some mattress brands make their foam from better components that reduce or eliminate memory foam smell. This article explains how, and tells you what to look for to make sure your mattress comes odor-free. What causes memory foam smell? Memory foam smell comes from a reaction called “off-gassing.” If you’ve ever smelled fresh paint, dry cleaning, or the inside of a new car, that’s off-gassing. New foams and many other manufactured products experience off-gassing. It happens when “volatile organic compounds” (VOCs) break down. As opposed to being stable, these “volatile” (or unstable) compounds break apart, most commonly forming gasses — hence the term off-gassing.
In mattresses, the most common place to find VOCs is in the foam and adhesives. They can include chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), formaldehyde, benzene, methylene chloride, toluene, trichloroethane, naphthalene, perfluorocarbons. These "volatile" (or unstable) compounds break apart, mostly forming gasses.My daughter is going to college this fall and we are getting ready. Her school recommended a number of items for her dorm which we dutifully purchased. Having worked on getting toxic flame retardants out of the foam in our couches over the past several years, it occurred to me that I should have the school-recommended foam mattress toppers for my daughter tested for those same toxic chemicals. So I bought both recommended toppers and sent samples to Professor Graham Peaslee at Hope College in Michigan. Testing revealed that both the egg crate and memory foam toppers contained toxic flame retardants: "The egg-crate mattress topper was approximately 1.2 percent bromine. Brominated flame retardants are usually persistent, bioaccummulative and toxic.
The flame retardant mixture called Firemaster 550 is the most common source of such levels of bromine in new foam, and although lacking extensive study, Firemaster 550 has been associated with obesity and anxiety in animals. In addition, one major component of Firemaster 550 has been linked to decreased sperm count in men, neurotoxicity and disruption of heart development and endocrine and metabolic function." It wasn't just the recommended egg-crate mattress topper that was found to contain toxic flame retardants, the memory foam pad did too: "The memory foam pad tested positive for bromine, but quantitative levels were not reported. Firemaster 550 is again a prime suspect, but further testing is needed." "Flame retardants have been linked to cancer, reproductive disorders and brain damage in children, among other ills, " reports Lynne Peeples. It shouldn't take a chemist and out-of-state testing to determine whether or not toxic flame retardants are in our sleeping areas.
It's time to eliminate toxic flame retardants from our stores, schools, hospitals and homes so we don't have to send products out to be tested in the first place. Fortunately, some are seeing the light and change is happening. For example, Kaiser, the largest US health management nonprofit announcing that they will stop buying furniture treated with flame retardants. They are leading the way in working to eliminate unnecessary and harmful chemicals in our surroundings, and putting pressure on manufacturers. You can read more about it in this Huffington Post article. Mattress toppers are incredibly common in dorms around the country ,and it appears that most contain flame retardants that seep out and become part of our children's toxic body burden. This is far from healthy for our kids. I don't want my child burdened in this way and the wonderful thing is, she doesn't need to be. It is easy to not put flame retardants in mattress toppers. We as consumers can use our purchasing power to demand this change.
In the 70s they put flame retardants in children's sleepwear. When research revealed that children were absorbing these harmful chemicals, they took the flame retardants out! We can do this again.If you´re tossing and turning all night, your body´s desperately trying to find the support it needs for a proper and restful sleep. With a healthy and non-toxic Sleep Aid® memory foam pad, which includes the patented Heat Reduction Channels, you won´t ever have to struggle for comfort again! Sleep Aid® memory foam pads provide the support you need to fall fast asleep. The Heat Reduction Channels also keep you cool for a sound sleep that lasts all night long. Simply lie down and relax as the natural Sleep Aid® material conforms to your whole body. You will receive the most restful sleep of your life! Your health is the most important; don´t settle for anything less than a Sleep Aid® memory foam mattress or topper. Sleep Aid® memory foam mattresses and toppers
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The progressive design also provides the extra support where you need it and softness where you want it. Sleep Aid is the only manufacturer we this patented system. Again we have been tested again all others and test after test shows conclusively our design is superior in providing the most comfortable and Overseas memory foam mattresses and toppers are not manufactured to the same high standards as domestic toppers. One reason for this quality difference is foreign memory foam products aren´t required to pass the strict quality and health standards that the United States foam manufacturers do. These foreign memory foam products often contain highly toxic chemicals that can cause allergic reactions. They are not safe toThe leading brand actually has a label on the material that says "The odor willIf you can´t be in the room with it, how do you sleep on it? Aid® guarantees the highest quality, toxin free, healthy, safe, fire resistant, and best
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