| Conventional Beds | Organic/Natural Beds |
| Potentially toxic ingredients are commonplace. Urethane foams and chemical fire-proofing finishers are common. Formaldahyde is also common. | Wool, Cotton, Canvas, Steel, and hard labor. The same things used for hundreds of years before foam or chemicals were available. |
| These type of substances have been shown to "off-gas" derivitives of themselves into the surrounding air. | Toxic off-gassing is eliminated with organic and natural materials. All beds will breathe, just like their owners. Both breath easier with organics. |
| Shipped in a plastic bag to your door, potentially toxic mattress fumes are waiting to escape. | Shipping won't affect this puppy, unless plastic-wrap or lack of wrap leads to surface contamination during shipment (ulikely). |
| The Frame of the bed, if wood or plastic can be covered in paint or varnish which will "off-gas" as well. | Untreated or "non-hazardous" treated wood, or metal frames will last a lifetime without exposing anyone to anyhting harmful. |
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