Organic Crib Mattress

What makes ours the best baby mattress, bar none?

• All Savvy Rest quilting is free from cotton fiber. Cotton fiber attracts moisture and compresses. With moisture come allergy-triggering dust mites, mold, mildew and fungi. Instead of cheap cotton fiber, we fill our quilting with certified organic wool fiber. Wool is naturally repellent to dust mites. It also keeps the mattress’s inner environment dry, so your baby sleeps cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
• Dust mites also cannot live in latex, which is the core of every Savvy Rest mattress.
• We use only natural latex, which is free of toxic chemicals that are believed harmful to babies’ developing brains.
• Latex is comfortable, supportive for growing bodies, and very durable.
• The mattress cover is removable for eco-dry-cleaning.

Toxic chemicals: A ‘silent pandemic’

More than 100,000 industrial chemicals are contaminating the air,  water, and our homes, causing a ‘silent pandemic’ of brain diseases in children, a new report warns. Neurotoxin experts Philippe
Grandjean and Philip Ladrigan say the widespread use of pesticides, cleaning products, glues, and other chemicals represents an uncontrolled experiment on developing brains, with little or no research on its impact. It’s already been shown that minute amounts of lead, mercury, and PCBs can cause serious brain and neurological damage. Researchers say that tons of other, unregulated chemicals being poured into the environment could be causing an increased incidence of autism, attention deficit disorder, cerebral palsy, and retardation. “The human brain is a precious and vulnerable organ,” says Grandjean, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Even limited damage may have serious
consequences.”

THE WEEK, November 24, 2006