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Organic Mattresses Surpass the Comfort of their Toxic Cousins

Mattresses, like cars, are usually available at different price points featuring different options.  Today I want to touch upon the issue of organic mattress comfort.  I’ve done some reading about ...

Why Buy an Organic Mattress?

I suppose that I bought my organic mattress for the same reason that I buy organic produce; I want to make sure that I’m not putting chemically laden food in my body or my home.  We all know about ...

Tempur-Pedic Facing Lawsuit over Claims of Formaldehyde and other VOC's

In 2013 a class action suit was filed in California courts alleging that Tempurpedic’s memory foam mattresses contain harmful VOCs. The lead plaintiff in the case, Michael Dodson, claims that Tempu...

How to Pick Out a Mattress

The whole process of selecting a new mattress can be intimidating and time consuming. But when you consider that you will be spending an average of 8 hours a day sleeping, it’s not a process that y...

Natural Versus Organic: What’s the Difference?

We work very hard to build furniture that is made only using natural fallen Ohio timber which we then coat with our own in-house, food-grade, Organic finish.  None of our furniture contains VOC’s a...