Did you know that natural latex foam mattresses, created from rubber tree latex sap, are a way safer various to the popular memory foam mattresses? Yes, it’s true. Memory foam mattresses, like most commercially out there mattresses, are created from petroleum based mostly polyurethane foam, an extremely flammable material. Known as “solid gasoline” by firefighters, the polyurethane foam in most commercially offered mattresses burns thus furiously that strict new fireplace resistance standards are written into law, beginning with California in 2005 and going nationwide in 2006. These strict new fireplace resistance standards are being met by tripling the amount of fire retardant chemicals, called PDBEs, that are added to manufacture memory foam mattresses and mattress toppers.
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