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)...
Ecocert

Ecocert

  Organization An inspection and certification body for sustainable development. Ecocert is a third party inspection and certification firm based in France. It was started in 1991 by agronomists interested in promoting organic and sustainable agricultural...
Layla Sleep

Layla Sleep

Company Layla Sleep is described as a “family owned” mattress manufacturer. It is located in Fremont, California, but the manufacturing is in Phoenix, Arizona. It has a Facebook page and a Twitter account (@LaylaSleep). It started in 2015, a year when several other...
IMO Certification

IMO Certification

The Organization   IMO stands for Institute for Marketecology, also known as Control Body IMO. It is a for profit business employing more than 400 experts in over ninety nations, which inspects, tests, evaluates and verifies businesses as to whether they meet the...
Intertek

Intertek

The Company   Intertek is an international corporation whose business is testing, evaluation and certification of products and their manufacturing processes for safety, performance, and verification of claims. According to it’s history goes back about 130 years...
Dynasty Mattress

Dynasty Mattress

Dynasty Mattress: Gel Memory Foam Mattresses   Dynasty Mattress (DM) is a brand which has been around at least since late 2008. A promotional video was uploaded to YouTube on July 17, 2011, ten days after a review of three DM models (10 Inch Deluxe, 12 Inch...
A Time to Sleep – Part 1

A Time to Sleep – Part 1

How much sleep is enough? This is Part 1 of a two-part article For Part 2, click here. A Time to Sleep and a Time to Wake The third chapter of the ancient Book of Ecclesiastes begins with, “There is a time for everything.” It follows by listing fourteen pairs of...
Fair Trade Certifications

Fair Trade Certifications

From the Coffee Cup to the Mattress   For the past 20 years or more, public awareness of Fair Trade and related issues has been increasing. News stories about working conditions where celebrity brands of apparel are made have made the front pages and covers of...