Soma Organic Mattress Eco-Materials
An organic mattress is unlike other mattresses. Soma Organic Mattresses is not your typical mattress.
Soma relies on the highest quality organic cotton, organic sheep’s wool, organic rubber (sap from a tree) and renewable, natural wood. Combined and handcrafted in places such as Canada, the USA and Europe, all of these materials come together to create the perfect sleep product for you.
Ultimately, what distinguishes a Soma Organic product, comes down to the quality and characteristics in materials that we use to create the final product.
What makes a material organic is not only the fact that is comes from a natural source, for example: wool from a sheep, but that there is a quality, third-party organizing that is independent and will certify the materials used in manufacturing.
Our life is often heavily impacted by the time and quality of our nightly sleep. Most of our repair and growth happens during the time when our body, and mind, is able to rest and repair. Modern mattresses and sleep products contain components that affect the quality of our sleep, or body’s temperature regulation during the sleep cycle and can be harmful to our skin and immune system. Moving towards living a healthy and balanced life means that we must focus on the foundation – sleep and the environment in which we sleep.
When you select an organic mattress with Soma, you are choosing a mattress: made to higher standards, made with flexibility in comfort (through customization) and also great value for your money. Soma's expert team has carefully and deliberately hand-selected the best available mattresses and bedroom products with your health and lifestyle in-mind.
Organic Latex (Natural Rubber)
Natural rubber is a sap that is derived from the “rubber” tree, and is the foundation of many of our mattresses and pillows. Unlike conventional mattresses that use a combination of coils, memory foam and harmful glues, rubber also referred to as latex, is a natural product that is non-harmful and does not off-gas.
Soma mattresses are made with premium organic rubber, that is carefully harvested by tapping the sap (milk) of rubber trees in countries such as Sri Lanka and Malaysia. After the sap is collected, we mold and bake the spa into sheets or rubber, without the use of chemical preservatives and stabilizers before they arrive in Canada for use.
Benefits of Rubber: Optimal comfort and durability due to it’s elasticity, molding to pressure points on the body while offering support, temperature and moisture regulation and circulation and naturally anti-bacterial / anti-microbial and anti-allergenic.
Organic Wool
Wool has been used, traditionally, for hundreds and thousands of years by cultures all over the world. It can be naturally collected from Sheep, Lamb and other animals that produce specific fibres for textiles. Aside from clothing, wool is valued for its exceptional properties that enhance sleep quality.
Soma mattresses, pillows, bedding and other products use a variety of wool fibres cultivate and collected in places such as Argentina and the Netherlands. The wool is cultivated without chemicals or pesticides, nor is it processed with bleach or harsh chemical de-greasers. The sheep roam free for the majority of the year, and are gathered for shearing (their haircut) only a couple of times each year. This produces a more coarse wool that has more spring and resilience than other wools.
Benefits of Wool: Naturally flame-retardant and able to retain up to 35% of its own weight in moisture, while wicking the moisture away to remain dry. Great insulator and temperature regulation (warm up, cool down). It is naturally anti-microbial, anti-fungal and anti-allergenic.
Organic Cotton
Cotton is another very popular fabric that has been relied upon by people across time. It can be soft, durable and healthy for the skin, which is the largest organ in the human body.
Many of Soma products, from the mattress encasements to pillows, bedding to throws, cotton is a primary ingredient, especially in the external fabric. While cotton comes in many different qualities and weave-types, we tend to focus on Pima (Supima) Cotton and Egyptian cotton as they are long fibres that can be worked into soft and luxurious fabrics. Natural cotton is prized for it’s purity and breathability, and is grown without the use of harmful pesticides and chemicals, nor chemically bleached during the processing.
Long Staple GIZA: Giza 86, Giza 89 & Giza 90.
Extra-Long Staple GIZA: Giza 45, Giza 70, Giza 87, Giza 88 & Giza 93.
Benefits of Cotton: Soft, supple and breathable. It is durable and natural for the human body, without concern for negatively effecting the skin. It is hypoallergenic and works well with wool for moisture control. Cotton is a versatile, natural material that is strong enough to last, while also being a sustainable crop.
Additional Natural Materials
Depicted in the photo below, the Flax plant and flower in the fields of Europe. Flax (commonly known as Linen), is a fabric that has been traditionally used in bedding and clothing for hundreds of years. It is a natural fabric with incredible properties and safe for the skin.