Considering how many articles that are now labeled as organic or natural, how can consumers make the best choice?
Food Choices
USDA organic label offering certain guarantees with regard to food and other agricultural products as organic wool and organic cotton. Most conscious consumers still feel as organic food standards is now lower than the previous, although we may not be able to track all the variables that ourselves. Because there is more profit in ecological niche, participating big companies now more. These market forces affect the organic standards as well.
To move the standards, it is also clear that many "organic" labels as misleading, especially in the larger box stores.
Natural and organic mattresses are a little more complicated than food, because there is no supervisory authority supervises the labelling. As a manufacturer said, "you can say whatever you want until someone shows you error." We believe there are simply too much space to deceive customers, and chemical industry lobbying is a potent and massive force that undermines the legitimacy of smaller companies that are trying to do right.
Which leaves this consumer? If there are 20 mattresses, all with the same descriptive terminology, how do you know which manufacturer makes indeed an organic mattress and just got a ride on the words?
Here are some principles for the consumer to follow:
1. Rather than trying to choose your manufacturer from the beginning, start by eliminating enterprises that never had anything to do with Organics and recently pushing the concept, and then go down to the relatively few reputable companies with a genuine interest in organics.
2. where a manufacturer makes all types of mattresses with memory, polyurethane foam, and "breathe" cloth, as they are not the primary focus on organic and environmentally friendly mattresses. and terming of their products as "organic" can be misleading.
3. There is no such thing as organic memory foam, although some companies require a hybrid foam. Soya memory foam is today more than 30% natural, which means that 70% of the foam is made from petroleum products.
4. today, there are no large company which produces a certified organic mattress.
5. If a mattress is sold in a big box store, it is very unlikely to be organic. There may be an organic cotton cover on it (if that), but it is probably the only organic part.
6. If coverage is stretchy fabric, as well as a loose-knit, it is not organic cloth all the way through. Organic materials contain not stretchy thread. Often organic fabric is layered stretchy synthetic fabric, because it creates a nice space sense-so what you touch on the top is organic, but below is not. (Since it will be subject to litter yet, superficial impression of the cover should not be a determining factor.)
7. If a mattress is labeled organic, should the manufacturer and/or retailer is able to produce authoritative, third-party certifications that validate the ecological qualities of the materials used. If they are not the product is not likely to be organic.
8. the manufacturer's Web site and the mission statement should reflect genuine concern for the personal and environmental health.