The Sheared Comfort of Wool

The Sheared Comfort of Wool

Wool: An Ancient and Modern Textile Fiber   Along with linen and cotton, wool is one of the oldest textile fibers in the world, and the oldest animal textile fiber. Along with this, sheep, the major producers of wool, join goats and cattle as animals with the...
Varieties of Memory Foam

Varieties of Memory Foam

Not all Memory Foam Is the Same   When a Swedish foam manufacturer, Fagerdala, introduced mattresses made with its Tempur Material to consumers over 25 years ago, it was the only memory foam on the market. Now when you shop for memory foam products, especially...
Cotton, An Ancient and Modern Fiber

Cotton, An Ancient and Modern Fiber

Many Uses in Mattresses As Old as History Cotton rivals linen as one of the oldest major textile plant fibers. According the Fair Trade Foundation, “Cotton is the world’s oldest commercial crop…” Cotton textiles were produced for trade thousands of years before the...
Healthy Foundations

Healthy Foundations

What is Healthy Foundations? Healthy Foundations is best known for its 10” Healthy Foundations Memory Foam Mattress. Notably, with hundreds of reviews, this mattress still received a 5-star average – most mattress models with 100 or more reviews (this mattress has...
More about Mattresses

More about Mattresses

History, Trends, Types, Marketing, Innovations, Etc.   This blog section is about memory foam mattresses in particular (as is this site) and mattresses in general. The first two articles here are about (1) the 25th anniversary of the memory foam mattress, and (2)...