Hi nate_man123,
Thank you for your update on your SleepEZ mattress, and I’m glad that you are happy with your selection of product and configuration.
And you are correct that you should hopefully notice an increase in your time spent in the deeper phases of sleep with the minimization of your use of electronics closer to bed time and the changing of your sleep schedule on weekends. It’s amazing how much small changes in those areas will positively impact your restoration.
For more information on pillows, you may wish to visit the pillow thread here.
And while not necessarily a main concern of yours (and more for others reading this thread), regarding the MSDS, while I’m no expert in materials science or chemistry, while there may be precursor chemicals used in the manufacture of various types of foams, for example the manufacture of styrene and butadiene, when they’re combined to create synthetic rubber and then combined in the creation of foamed rubber (latex foam) they become inert and aren’t considered to be harmful, yet they can still be listed as “ingredients” in the foam. They could present a risk to the people who manufacture the foam or handle the unreacted chemical itself (which is where people commonly incorrectly relate the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) to be representative of the “safety” of a finished product), but the risk to consumers that purchase the final product would be minimal. The only reliable way to assess the “safety” of different materials in more general terms is based on lab tests and the certifications they have for harmful substances and VOCs (regardless of whether they are organic or natural or synthetic) so that you have some assurance than the VOCs are below the testing limits for the certification. If the materials in a mattress or the mattress itself has a reliable “safety” certification then for most people they would certainly be “safe enough”, regardless of the MSDS, type of material or the name of the manufacturer on the label.
Thanks again for talking the time to provide an update, and I’m looking forward to your future updates.
Phoenix