Hi Taylorajay,
I would agree with you that it’s a good idea to do some research before you buy any mattress and it’s unfortunate that you didn’t read their website before you made your purchase.
I think highly of Berkeley Ergonomics and they certainly make some very high quality mattresses. While I wasn’t part of your conversation so I don’t know what any specific salesperson may have told you … I don’t know of any Berkeley Ergonomics dealers that make any claims about their mattresses being certified organic and they provide accurate information about all the materials and components in their mattresses so it would have been very easy to confirm the information that they provided just by reading their website. Their covers actually do use certified organic cotton and certified organic wool but the latex is 100% natural Talalay (there isn’t any Talalay latex that has an organic certification) and of course the steel in their innersprings doesn’t have an organic certification either. As you mentioned the only synthetic material in their mattresses is the polypropylene they use to cover the pocket coils but it’s also a completely “safe” material.
Most people that are looking for an “organic” mattress or materials are usually concerned more with “safety” than whether the materials have an actual organic certification. There is more information about the three different levels of organic certifications in post #2 here and some of the benefits of an organic certification in post #3 here and there is more about the different types of organic and safety certifications such as Oeko-tex, Eco-Institut, Greenguard Gold, C2C, and CertiPUR-US in post #2 here and more about some of the differences between organic and safety certifications in post #2 here and there are also some comments in post #42 here that can help you decide whether an organic certification is important to you for environmental, social, or personal reasons or whether a “safety” certification is enough.
There have been some recent and unfounded criticisms about BE by someone that is on some kind of “vendetta” that is almost certainly from a competitor that is very misleading and include some comments that are very similar to yours so hopefully your comments aren’t being influenced by some very misleading online information.
Phoenix
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