Dear Friend,
I have been in the mattress and home furnishings business for years now...One thing that experience has given me is an intense passion for bedding and what it can do for improving everyone's quality of life including our babies- after-all we spend a third of our lives in bed...Part of that passion has kept me looking not only for the best bedding available BUT a BETTER way to sell it---through facts & education.
The first thing I will not compromise when choosing a product to offer you is healthfulness ... it MUST be good not only for you but everyone it touches .... ALL of our products are carefully selected for the health of you and your family. The second thing is good-old-fashioned value .... our products MUST be worth what you pay for them. They must not only last years longer than other bedding but must contribute to your comfort and enjoyment for every year you own them. That is our pledge to you .. health and value for years to come .
The first thing I will not compromise when choosing a product to offer you is healthfulness ... it MUST be good not only for you but everyone it touches .... ALL of our products are carefully selected for the health of you and your family. The second thing is good-old-fashioned value .... our products MUST be worth what you pay for them. They must not only last years longer than other bedding but must contribute to your comfort and enjoyment for every year you own them. That is our pledge to you .. health and value for years to come .
I hope you can take time to watch the video on 10 American Babies created by The Environmental Working Group. If you are considering a memory polyurethane foam mattress, here is why you should reconsider. It also answers, "What is a Toxic Bedroom?"
There are two types of latex, (1) "Natural Rubber and (2) SBR, Styrene Butadiene Rubber, synthetic latex" We only sell 100% ALL Natural Rubber, with certified organic cotton & organic wool. Which is SAFE & NON-Toxic.
Here is what everyone else sells. Polyurethane and Synthetic Latex Foam: They come from the Urethane industry. They have a close knit relationship with the chemical industry. Synthetic mattresses are cheap to make, doesn't last and is toxic. I am disturbed by salesmen who claim they have organic all natural rubber latex mattresses when in fact they don't. Just because they have some blended latex in their mattress they are making outrageous claims. You can read their nice brochures over and over, it will not point out the fact it is a synthetic mattress until you start digging. I will show you how to distinguish between the natural and the synthetic. If you think you want to compare, we are more than happy to help point out the differences. Just to help you out I have listed 3 ways to tell the difference below.
Why Organic?
Synthetic mattresses are made from petro chemicals and have chemical flame retardants. Organic mattresses are made from natural fibers like organic cotton, organic wool & 100% organic latex rubber that comes from the rubber trees grown in the tropics. They have organic certificates. If you want to make sure you are getting the real thing, it is best to deal with a organic mattress store because they specialize in organics.
Botanical Latex Scam:
However, buying a mattress over the internet can be problematic if you are not a expert in the mattress industry. As convincing as sales people sound and as convincing as web-sites are. If you don't know what to look for then you can be easily misled. There are clues it's a red-herring, often in the warranty.
I have found several internet sites claiming to have "botanical latex" and it is all natural, when in fact it is NOT all natural and the casing doesn't have wool, it is soaked in chemical flame retardants. The mattress they are selling isn't fit for a 8 year old because it lacks proper support, $1,800 is a lot of money for a synthetic mattress designed for a 8 year old. They give away a "free PLASTIC mattress pad & a couple of pillows" Their zipper has no purpose, no layers to change around. It comes vaccume sealed, if it was in fact natural latex it can not be vaccume sealed. It ruins the latex.
Green Washing:
Also, sales people and manufacturers can claim their mattress are all natural or 100% genuine latex, lot's of fancy made up latex sounding names, when in fact it is synthetic, quilted to polyester, has polyurethane base, (we call that green washing) not as Eco friendly as they claim, why is that important?
Toxic Chemicals:
"SBR" Latex foam, not to be confused with all natural rubber, is made from styrene butadine, which is toxic to the lungs, liver & brain. Plus, being synthetic, they must also pour in chemicals to make it not so flammable.
If they don't have a better mattress then they have to Lie!
I used to preach look at their law-label. Usually it is located at the top of the mattress, kinda hidden. Sometimes the dealer will remove it because they don't want you to see it is made with FOAM. It is illegal for them to deliver your mattress without a law label or tear it off. Only you the consumer can remove that law label by law.
I would like to tell you a little story. A couple years ago when I first started this business. I was on the airplane and I sat next to a bedding designer for one of these "S" brands. We struck up a conversation. She told me she designed this beautiful bed for the company. The executives asked her to put on the law label and falsely claim their mattress as a "Organic mattress" She said, "there was nothing organic about the mattress just the bootie at the foot of the bed was made with organic cotton." I asked her, "Why would they ask you to do such a outrageous thing?" She said, "It's all about the profit, their goal is to make their mattress as cheap as they can and sell it for as much as they can, and if they can say it is all natural and organic then they are going to do it." I told her, "I appreciate your honesty and really appreciate you taking the high road." She said, "Yeah, I just don't know how long I can hold them off."
Is it genuine LANAUGA HIDE? Is there a LANAUGA out there somewhere?
Here is a photo of their demo box proving their sales tactics. It say's 100% GENUINE LATEX, but if you read further down it say's "synthetic latex" This word is often cut out at the stores because they really don't want the customers to see it.
Also, don't be mislead when the salesperson claims there are no chemicals in their mattress. Since when is a mattress made out of petroleum oil, chemical flame retardants & boric acid not contain chemicals?
Quality and Real Value:
Foam is cheap to make, easy to over-price and run on sale. The last thing they want is you to be able to compare mattresses, especially on-line. We are not afraid of that because we know we have the best product at true Internet pricing. We started out as a Internet business & now we have both a showroom at Internet prices. Polyurethane mattresses have a planned obsolescence of 5 years. $1,000 every 5 years is $5,000 in 30 years. Invest 1/2 that in a Savvy Rest & never have to buy another mattress in your life.
Customer Satisfaction:
We know you can't tell anything about a mattress by layer on it for 5 minutes in the showroom. This is why we have a Comfort Exchange program. You will never be stuck with a mattress that doesn't feel good because our mattresses have a zipper. You can change the layers out as many times as you want for $45 each way for 1/2 layer during the first 3 months.
Savvy Rest also have a 20 year warranty on the mattresses that have zippers. 10 year full replacement & 10 year prorated. See Warranty page. Since the mattress has 3 layers it is easy to fix any warranty issue that may arise.
Ways to identify a Synthetic mattress:
Since you can no longer trust the law label or the salesman. Two other ways to tell if the mattress is synthetic, if you see quilting. Manufactures must quilt to polyester. Therefore they must use flame retardant chemicals such as boric acid (rat poison) & antimony (heavy metal such as lead, mercury) CPSC says " Children absorb .5 mg antimony every night, they have 63 times more antimony poisoning in their body due to chemical flame retardants than the FDA claims is safe. Adults 12%, you absorb antimony every night as you sleep. Our quilting is to organic wool which is completely safe and passes government regulation for flame retardancy naturally without the use of flame retardant chemicals.
The third way to tell if the mattress is toxic is the layers are glued together with solvents. Manufactures must glue them together so they don't shift & creep up on you at night. Savvy Rest does not need to use glue because the latex layers grab each other and are locked in place.
Savvy Rest has all the benefits of memory foam without all the problems. It relieves pressure better, no motion transfer, sleeps cooler naturally, more affordable.
The government does not require a manufacturer or retailer to distinguish between synthetic and natural latex on their mattresses or law-labels. The labeling can vary wildly from state to state. But, third party research does distinguish between natural and synthetic latex mattress manufacturers.
Unlike synthetic SBR rubber, all natural rubber last longer & doesn't take body impressions or break down like polyurethane does. We are always pleased when someone call us up and they want to replace their "all natural latex rubber mattress they had for 40 - 50 years" The longest I heard was 54 years from a sweet lady in Bella Vista. If the mattress has lots of wool padding, you can get body impressions from all that wool. But, not with a Savvy Rest. You can also expect a Savvy Rest to last decades depending upon your weight & the density of the layers you choose. The firmer the mattress the longer it last.
DENSITY = LONGEVITY
Polyurethane Foam - 1.9 lb
Tempurpedic (tm) - 5.3 lb
Savvy Rest Firm Dunlop Latex - 40 lb (last 8 times longer than Temper's 5.8 lb density)
We have the only 100% organic mattress in the state of Arkansas and Oklahoma. We deliver and set up. Just because someone else sells a mattress that has organic cover doesn't mean the whole mattress is organic. Savvy Rest is the only organic mattress manufacturer in the country that has not only organic cotton but also organic wool and organic latex. Every one else just sells Eco Safer wool and latex and they often make their mattresses out of Talalay latex which either they use just a little of it or it lacks support which is why we don't recommend it in a mattress.
Eco-Friendly Process
The process to manufacture Dunlop latex is much better for the environment than any other method of foam production, polyurethane foam, soy foam, memory foam also including Talalay latex. 95% of the latex manufactured by Latex International is synthetic and sold to the be "S" brands. This leaves only 5% that is not synthetic and it cost a lot more money to produce.
Have you noticed there are lot's of videos on how natural latex is made but no videos on how polyurethane foam or memory foam is made? That's because they don't want you to see the 55 gallon drum of petroleum oil, the chemical flame retardants, the liners that are soaked in Boric Acid is used in their production. Because if you did see that you probably wouldn't want to buy one of those mattresses. In sharp contrast our mattress is grown from rubber sap, picked from cotton, sheared from sheep. That is it! Nothing is cut down or harmed. Our sources for making your mattress goes on to make more mattresses and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Not manufactured in some chemical plant. The Dunlop process is earth friendly, the Talalay process is not Eco-friendly.
Do you sleep hot?
A lot of people sleep hot, it doesn't help when the synthetic mattress & bedding you are sleeping on makes you sleep even hotter! If you want to sleep cooler, go with natural fibers, if you want to breathe better go organic. Wool is a great body temperature regulator. Cool in the summer, cozy in the winter. Even Presidents wear wool suits in the summer.
Thank you for your time & hope to hear from you soon.
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Warmly,
Joyce Robertson
Owner (479) 966-2262
