I don’t want to know about this, but I have learned from a friend about all the chemicals that they put into mattresses to make them flame retardant. Apparently, the amount of mandated anti-fire chemicals in mattresses has been upped and now people are taking notice. I watched this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt20q-WezOc from an ABC News Chicago report and of course read blogs/website rants.
So yeah, broke but need to buy an organic mattress … or three…I guess. It was alot easier and cheaper to replace the sippy cups for BPA-free ones.
I found several sites that have organic beds but this one looks to be the most affordable so far: www.nontoxicbeds.com. The flame retardant junk is sprayed onto a mattress cover that you can zip off. The site claims that your chances of dying in a bed fire are more than a million to one vs. sucking in chemical crap nightly.
Since we have to buy mattresses anyways and now that I know this, I cannot really ignore it. But it’s pricey and frankly annoying that there are all these chemicals everywhere that we don’t know about.
