Top Features include:Impressive 3" Thick SlabHigh Quality Made in the USA Memory FoamDensity of 2.5 lbsSized for College Dorm Bedding (Twin Long dorm beds)**Check out our Video below on why dorm beds are less than the quality you need and how impressive our 3" Topper truly looks on a dorm bed**Note: Internet Explorer users cannot view videos due to Internet Explorer putting a block on YouTube. We recommend Firefox, Safari or Chrome. Other retailers $129.99 Our Price: Dorm Co. Tip: Dorm beds need all the cushion & support possible! Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours When shopping for a Twin XL memory foam topper it can be tricky. You want high quality, but you do not want to over-pay either. So how do you know? For starters Dorm Co will always give you the highest quality dorm bedding toppers at the lowest price, but beyond that we will teach you about the product's quality too. Memory foam is a very tricky product to shop for because there are so many grades of memory foam at prices that are quite frankly all over the place.
There are two areas that you want to pay attention to most. First and foremost is the product's density and second is the product's thickness. Most retailers are quick to mention the thickness as you need to know the topper thickness, but the density is sometimes hidden or not stated at all. How high of quality your memory foam is directs relates to the density. As a general rule, the higher the density number, the higher the sink in softness. If you are familiar with the hand print image after touching memory foam this is created by good quality, high density memory foam. Our 3" Twin XL Memory Foam Topper is a high quality 2.5 lb density. You'll be sure to see your hand print, but more importantly you'll get the high quality bedding comfort that you are looking for! So remember when comparing memory foam toppers the density is the key to quality. You can trust Dorm Co's quality and density. If you still aren't sure and you decide to shop around just remember if you find a lower density memory foam the quality will not be as high as this Twin XL Memory Foam Topper.
Our pricing is so low the next cheapest cost you'll find for equal quality is $129.99. Dorm Co has all your college dorm bedding covered at the cheapest prices! We literally have you covered. Pure Heaven, Memory Foam Mattress Topper for Dorm Bedding (Twin XL Beds). Pillow topsPlace a pad on your mattress for an even greater night’s sleep. It’ll help keep your mattress in better condition too. You can choose between various fillings and materials – but all of our pillow tops are easily removed to air and clean. So you can keep your bed fresh and inviting every day. IKEA FAMILY products & offerssusan greenfield and her girlfriend Llina Kempner couldn't wait for their new memory-foam mattress top to arrive. For months, they'd heard friends rave about how the high-tech material molds itself to your body. But when they unwrapped the three-inch-thick pad in their Manhattan apartment, they noticed a strong, acrid odor. "My nose and my lungs were miserable," recalls Greenfield.
For the two nights Kempner slept on the mattress top, she felt nauseated. After Greenfield, who is chemically sensitive, had an asthma attack in the middle of the night, the couple returned the mattress pad. But its stench lingered in the apartment for weeks.Reactions like Greenfield's are relatively rare, but you, too, might lose some sleep when you find out what's really inside your mattress—memory foam or not. The place where you spend one-third of your life is chock-full of synthetic materials, some potentially toxic. Since the mid- to late '60s, most mattresses have been made of polyurethane foam, a petroleum-based material that emits volatile organic compounds that can cause respiratory problems and skin irritation. Formaldehyde, which is used to make one of the adhesives that hold mattresses together, has been linked to asthma, allergies, and lung, nose, and throat cancers. And then there are cotton pesticides and flame-retardant chemicals, which can cause cancer and nervous-system disorders.
In 2005, Walter Bader, owner of the "green mattress" company Lifekind and author of the book Toxic Bedrooms, sent several mattresses to an Atlanta-based lab. A memory-foam model was found to emit 61 chemicals, including the carcinogens benzene and naphthalene. There is no proven health risk from the substances in mattresses, however, mostly because tracking their long-term effects is virtually impossible. Heather Stapleton, an environmental chemist at Duke University, says there's simply not enough data to determine whether low levels of these chemicals will eventually make people sick. "It's the dose that makes the poison," she says. "If they're not getting out, maybe it's not a problem—but we don't know. There are plenty of lab studies that show that these compounds are harmful. It's just a question of what levels people are exposed to." Still, more and more consumers are seeking out mattresses made of natural latex, organic cotton batting, and organic wool. Sales of California-based Vivètique's latex mattresses have increased by 40 percent annually for the past five years—they now comprise 45 percent of the company's total sales.
And they are even sold by discounter 1-800-Mattress. It's hard to say whether you should ditch your conventional bed in favor of a green one, since you'll likely have a tough time figuring out exactly which toxins are lurking under your covers. Take, for example, fireproofing chemicals: Pentabde, a member of the polybrominated diphenyl ether (pbde) family of flame retardants, was used in some mattresses before 2004, when it was phased out. (Pentabde is now known to be toxic to the liver, thyroid, and nervous system.) So let's say that just to be on the safe side you toss your pre-2004 mattress and buy a new one. Last July, the Consumer Product Safety Commission began to require that all mattresses sold in the United States be able to withstand 30 minutes of exposure to an open flame. Mattress makers aren't using Pentabde anymore—but it's not clear exactly what they are using to meet the new standard. Major manufacturers such as Simmons, Sealy, and Tempur-Pedic won't divulge their flame-retardant formulas, which are considered trade secrets.
A Simmons press release touts a "proprietary blend of char-forming, intumescing, flame-resistant components." Tempur-Pedic vaguely states that its products "consistently meet all safety standards." A best guess at what's in today's mattresses comes from Ryan Trainer, executive vice president of the International Sleep Products Association, an industry group. He says most companies use "various types of barrier fabrics" such as cotton treated with boric acid or rayon treated with silica—both relatively benign chemicals—as well as fire-resistant materials such as modacrylic fiber (which contains antimony oxide, a carcinogen) and melamine resin (which contains formaldehyde). With a doctor's prescription, people who are chemically sensitive and have allergies can order a mattress that doesn't pass a flammability test. But organic-mattress companies have found a simple way to fireproof: wrapping their bedding in a layer of wool. Their prices aren't so warm and cozy—a queen-size latex model from Virginia-based Savvy Rest starts at $1,599.