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