Fiberglass is in Nectar mattresses which is proven by the warning and law labels - and this includes other online brands. Recently, one of my customers sent me an email with a law label and warning label off of their Nectar mattress. The warning label says, do not remove cover from this mattress. Removing the cover from this mattress will void your forever warranty. Using your mattress when the cover is removed could compromise the integrity of the mattress. If the cover is removed at any point, do not sit, lay sleep, stand, jump or otherwise use the mattress until the cover is put back on the mattress and secured. Failure to follow this warning could result in serious injury, death and or property damage.

What could possibly be wrong with removing the cover? It's zipped on and it would give you the impression that you can take it off and wash it if you want to. But the warning label says do not remove it. And if you do, don't you dare touch the mattress. The reason is, is because it's covered in fiberglass to make it flame retardant. And this fiberglass is extremely harmful to your health and can get out of the mattress, into your home, into the ductwork of your house, into other clothing and other materials. You breathe it in your lungs. It's very harmful. The Consumer Product Safety Commission began requiring all mattresses sold in the U.S. must be flame retardant. Now, most companies are using toxic fire retardant chemicals, but some companies are advertising they don't use harmful chemicals in their mattresses. Okay. So they replace it with fiberglass, which is also very harmful. Now, on my website, I have a blog where I talk about this and there is a post there of a news report of people having a mattress with these fiberglass, with this fiberglass, they've removed the cover and the fiberglass has caused them tremendous problems in their home and in their health.

Now, to prove that this has got fiberglass in it, this customer sent me also the law label off of this Nectar mattress. This is common among a lot of mattresses today. And as a matter of fact, it is very common among online only mattress companies. The label it says Glass fiber, 23%.
So that proves that it has fiberglass and it's no wonder they don't want you to remove the cover. It is harmful. Now the cover is thin, will the fiberglass get through that fabric? The answer is yes, it will over time, using the mattress, you are going to expose yourself to these glass fibers. Lots of companies are advertising chemical free. Some are even saying they meet the standards with wool. Well, why wouldn't this company who's using fiberglass just simply use wool? I mean, wool won't be harmful. It implies that if they used wool, they would be lying because wool has to be treated. So there are other companies out there saying they use wool to meet the fire standards. Wool burns. The wool itself has to be treated with a fire retardant to make it impervious to the flame. So this is a little bit revealing on several fronts. Any company that claims they use wool to meet the flame standards is not telling you the whole truth.
Companies that say they use no toxic chemicals, they are telling you probably they're using glass fibers which are also harmful to your health and to your home and so forth. The only way to get a chemical free mattress is through us as Sleep Essentials.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has regulated this stuff for the chemical industry's benefit. So we consumers are now sleeping in terrible substances, whether it's chemicals or glass fibers, to make it flame retardant. We do not need flame retardant mattresses. There is absolutely no need for a flame retardant mattress. Not even by the standards of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

They claim by making the mattress flame retardant, it gives you more time to get out of your house. Most people die from smoke inhalation, so by the time the fire in your house starts in the kitchen or starts in the basement, or our electrical source or heat source and spreads through your house to your mattress in your bedroom, you're dead from the smoke.

This is a lie to make the chemical industry, perhaps the fiberglass industry, more money. Do not believe anything these mattress companies are telling you that they don't use chemicals. If they claim they're using wool, the truth is, the wool has been treated.

There is no way to make a mattress flame retardant without these terrible substances. I'm the only mattress retailer out there that is telling you the whole truth about the industry.