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What’s another thing a mattress is useful for, aside from sleeping and playing on it? Well, a mattress can help you in times of disasters. How is that? According to the Storm Prediction Center, mattresses, mattress toppers or pads can serve as protective coverings during a very strong typhoon or tornado.

When these disaster strikes, you of course need to immediately seek shelter such as a stairwell, in the bathtub or under the table and even then, you have to cover yourself with a mattress pad or sleeping bag to cushion yourself.

For more on disaster safety, visit SPC.

Dust mites are the leading cause of allergy in the house hold and you have the power to keep it from affecting you and your family:

• Enclose your mattresses, including your pillows, with a hypoallergenic barrier. If you own a box spring, make sure that your comforters and duvets are made of hypoallergenic materials as well. The full encasement will reduce mites from inhibiting the area, keeping your sleep sanctuary free from it
• Wash your beddings in warm water of about 130°F, to ensure that germs and mites are killed. Do this weekly. For mattress pads and heavier blankets, do this biweekly.

Research work conducted by Sustainable Technologies Initiative (STI), a company based in the UK, shows some very effective alternative ways by which mattress manufacturers can provide for more environment-friendly sleeping solutions.

Mattresses are conventionally made using various synthetic materials that often carry adverse effects to the environment, especially when these are not properly disposed. By pushing the use of natural fibers from recycled wool, cotton and other organic materials, in place of foam padding or synthetic fibers which used to be the common practice, Sustainable Technologies Initiative believes that the move does not only help the environment, it also improves the competitiveness of the industry through lowered manufacturing costs. Further to that, consumers are provided better sleeping alternatives as studies have also indicated that natural products bring bigger and better benefits.

Our folks at Bedzine is giving away a king-size mattress-in-a-box to a lucky US Resident. All you have to do is be the person with the most participation on the website, by actively posting comments.

Visit BedZine now.

It’s now charred beyond recognition but do you wonder what reduced this red Mitsubishi Chariot to this state? A kapok mattress which was left without care at the driveway. See, what happened was the owner of the car parked right below it and the heat from its engine ignited the mattress to flames.

Fortunately the house was spared from the fire, as the wind blew the flames into the other direction.

The complete story  is here.

While the federal government pushes through with its new mandate for mattress safety standards effective July 1, there are those that say the safety precautions set may actually be more dangerous. The chemicals to achieve a flame-proof mattress are said to cause more harm than good, ten years down the line. Below are the points People for Cleaner Beds Org have made regarding this:

The chemicals used to flameproof mattresses have never been studied for human exposure risk in this application. (Except now the CPSC has released a limited study.)

We know almost all the chemicals to flameproof mattresses are acutely toxic and many also cause cancer.

New mattress standards will go in effect today, July 1st, in the USA. Will neighboring Canada follow suit? Exporters from that area are complying with the current USA laws but locally, the move to amend it remains unchanged:

What’s the best mattress for your tired and aching back? A green mattress from Keetsa!

* The Core: Patent-pending waffle cores; one for each side of the bed for individual firmness settings. Designed for superior spinal alignment. Dual controls for each sleeper, with memory settings. Foam rails along all four sides makes every inch of the bed surface usable, with no roll-off effect.
* The Comfort Top: High Density Memory Foam, a recyclable material, conforms to your body shape and temperature. The memory foam layer instantly receives your body with a custom-fit.
* All-Natural Ingredient: EverGreen™, made from all-natural green tea, is embedded into the memory foam for long-lasting natural odor control. SilverScience™, an all-natural anti-bacterial, is embedded into the fabric to protect the mattress.

In an uplifting turn of events, a Ukrainian teenager was found two days after she drifted on her air mattress in the Black Sea. Reports say that her friends and her went to the beach to tan themselves and she eventually chose to cool down in the water on top of an air mattress. She fell asleep and did not realize she was drifting farther away from the shore.

In the absence of a fully functional warm mattress pad which could cost hundreds of dollars, you can still keep yourself warm this winter season with this heating pad from Sunbeam. Those who have bought this marvel at the fact that it doesn’t have an auto off feature, so you can keep warm for as long as you like. The easy to use controller is ideal for people with arthritis or those with limited mobility. Other features include a 3-heat setting (low, medium and high) and an absorbent sponge providing moist and heat relief. Even set at low, the pad can already provide you comfort. The heating pad is also useful for small pets. Made available for purchase here.