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Organic Bedding and Organic Mattresses by Prescription Only?
Effective January 1, 2005, California law requires all mattresses contain chemical based fire retardancy for "public safety". This law may become national within a year, and is under consideration by the Consumer Products Safety Commission. California residents can buy chemical-free organic mattresses with a letter or prescription from a doctor, which can be mailed or faxed to at time of purchase. Unfortunately, this legislation may eventually extend to organic bedding and organic clothing. The primary chemicals required to meet state and federal flammability guidelines include Boric Acid (which effectively kills roaches), PBDE's, Formaldehyde, Decabromodiphenyl Oxide, Melamine, Zinc Borate, Vinylidiene Chloride, and Antimony Trioxide. Up to 1 1/2 pounds of these deadly chemicals saturate just the surface of a larger size mattress! It's not that legislators aren't aware of the toxicity and health risks of these chemicals. The law grudgingly nods to purchasing organic mattresses by prescription only. Imagine having to pay a doctors visit just to purchase organic bedding and clothing as well. For those with health insurance, an inconvenience. For those without health insurance, a potentially devastating and insurmountable health menace. Your family spends 8 hours every day lying prone on mattresses, and will steadily inhale these toxins for years. This is being mandated by law regardless of scientific proof that these chemicals are highly carcinogenic, cause high prenatal mortality, birth defects, reduced fertility, plus liver, kidney, brain and heart damage. Americans with allergies, asthma and multiple chemical sensitivities, are keenly at risk. Infants are notoriously vulnerable to Boric Acid poisoning. The authors of the legislation have good intentions, and expect to save 300 lives every year from mattress-ignited fires. Over 40 years, this law could harm more than 100 million people as a direct result of chemical saturation. Organic bedding with wool fill and organic mattresses, naturally meet and exceed fire retardant standards in all cases, but will never contain a dram of toxic chemical inputs. If this law becomes national, doctors will hopefully suffer an epidemic of writers cramp, and judging from their strenuous opposition to this legislation, will be more than happy to continue writing prescriptions for safe, healthy organic mattresses, and if necessary, organic bedding and clothing as well. Susan Fullen-Yurek of Kushtush.com Organics, http://www.kushtush.com, is an online retailer of organic bedding and organic cotton products.
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How to Choose the Best Mattress For You
Having the wrong type of mattress could lead to all kinds of avoidable complications that you should not have to put up with. I?m talking about things like, aches and pains, joint pain, overall feeling of ill health, breathing difficulties, fatigue, feeling less alert/awake etc. This list can go on and on.
Air Mattress Tips - Air Pumps For The Air Mattress Bed
When you are looking at air mattresses, have you considered how they are inflated? Many people do not realize what it takes to actually inflate an air mattress. Some people have actually been under the impression in the past that people would blow into the air mattress as if it were a balloon. This method was awful and would take forever to complete.
P.M. Bedroom Gallery Meets Consumer Demand for Extra-Large Mattresses; Also Sells Coordinating Furniture to Create Stylish Bedrooms
P.M. Bedroom Gallery, retailer of 100% handcrafted American-made furniture, has responded to consumer demand for larger mattresses, offering three 'super' sizes, plus a full line of coordinating bedroom furniture with many custom options to make decorating easy. Delivery and set up is available anywhere in the United States.
Time To Change To A Waterbed Air Mattress?
A waterbed air mattress can be a good replacement for an old waterbed mattress, or just a new choice for your bed. These air mattresses are specifically designed to be able to fit into water bed frames, making it very convenient to change your mattress from a water-filled one to an air-filled one. In particular, these air mattresses are sized to fit snugly into a hard side waterbed?s wooden frame.
The Honeymoon Bed - Queen Size Mattresses Are The Perfect Size
Queen size mattresses are going to be the perfect bed for newlyweds to buy When choosing your first bed, you are going to want to go shopping together and pick out the perfect size and the perfect firmness of mattress
Little Known Facts About Waterbeds And Waterbed Mattress Safety Tips
Whether you?re an existing waterbed owner or you?re considering to buy a waterbed, the following are some important facts about waterbeds which you don?t usually find in the vendor websites or any waterbed stores. Some of the information you?re about to read could be shocking that even most existing waterbed owners who have been sleeping for years, are unaware of.
The Foam Mattress Review: So You?re Comfortable With Your Choice
One of the best and quickest ways to determine whether a foam mattress is right for you is to spend some time reading over the many foam mattress review sites on the Internet. A foam mattress review written by a consumer can give you an objective opinion about the comfort of a particular brand of foam mattress, and help you sort out which foam mattress features you would like for yourself.
A Back Pain Mattress: When You Need Eight Hours
The average person spends one-third of his or her life asleep, or tossing and turning while trying to fall or remain asleep. That one-third of life can have a drastic effect on the other tow-thirds, especially if it is spent on a poorly designed mattress. If you have been waking up each morning with s stiff back or aching neck and shoulders, you will probably benefit from a well-constructed back pain mattress.
A Mattress -- Your Most Valuable Home Investment
Honestly, how productive you think you were today at work? Do you think you could have performed a lot better if you have had more time to sleep the night before? -- most people will answer yes to these questions without giving much thought to them, it is because it is very common to lower our performance at anything we do if we haven't had a proper night sleep.
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