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First, please do not let yourself be caught up in the ridiculous marketing schemes of mattress companies. Every mattress is man (or robot) made and all foam products, including latex, are man made and contain artificial substances in some form. Calling any mattress "organic" is a joke. Mattresses are not food and what kind of fertilizer used on the rubber tree plants or the cotton or what is fed to the horses has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of the mattress or if it is healthy for you or not. Frankly I would stay away from almost any company advertising "organic" mattresses.

That being said, there are mattresses that are more natural then others. At the top of the chain are companies like Hastens of Sweden and VI-Spring of the UK that use primarily horsehair and cotton for their comfort layers. They...

Welcome to the club!<BR>Trust us, we all feel your pain, but this isn't new, its been like this for at least the last 20 years or so. <BR><BR>You have barely touched the surface of the scams. <BR>Don't forget the bait-and-switch advertising,<BR>the never ending sales that are always ending tomorrow unless you act today,<BR>the $800 dollar mattresses that are sold for $3,000 just by adding $50 dollars of foam and calling them &quot;pillow-top&quot; so they can then be sold at a &quot;50% off&quot; deal,<BR>the complete lack of quality (Just try to buy a two-sided mattress with a box spring that contains real springs!),<BR>the contracts with mile long fine-print that guarantees you will never be able to return the mattress even if they have an exchange (and if they do have an exchange, beware of getting someone else's instead of new),<BR>the snake-oil sales tactics,<BR>the don't tell the customer that &quot;high-end&quot;...

This is the sad, sad reality almost all of us realized and the reason we hang out on this forum even years after our purchase. The current mainstream mattresses are not made as well as they were 5 years ago, much less 20. Just try to buy a two-sided mattress with a real box-spring with springs.

Fortunately there are some companies still making good mattresses. Unfortunately they are way too expensive for the average person and often sold in only one or two stores in the US. The list would include VI-Spring, Hastens, McRoskey, Relyon, the high-end Shifmans and also local brands like Charles H. Beckley and a few others. Most of these are still hand-made and high quality but can easily run $4,000 to $50,000 depending on what your looking at.

This is the reason so many choose to build their own all-latex mattress....

Scottsdale has a Hastens store and used to have a VI-Spring dealer as well and may still have one. These cost as much as a car, but are arguably the finest mattresses money can buy.

www.hastens.com
www.VI-Spring.com...

IMO the finest mattress sold in the USA today. I have now had my Hastens Naturally for almost 4 years and it has been wonderful except that I went with soft when medium would have been a slightly better fit for me. These mattresses are so comfortable you just want more and more, but you need to remember that most need the support of a medium.

The only real problem is the price. Back when I was auditioning them The prices ranged from $4,000 for a Naturally King to $11,000 for a 2000T which seemed obscene at the time but was doable if you went for a queen and made a deal. (I only paid $3400 for my Naturally Queen) Today at double+ those prices Hastens sadly seems to be only for the wealthy. This is particularly unfortunate as the "S" companies are only making complete junk...

Back at the hight of my mattress search I compared Hastens to Dux and Hastens won on both comfort and construction, but foam free was, and still is, very important to me. For others, your milage may vary, however at that price Dux is up against not only Hastens, but VI-Spring, McRoskey, Shifman, Hypnos and several other IMO superior companies....

Next to buying a tombstone, this is probably the hardest decision you have to make.  Sadly, there are many people in my industry who take advantage of people and give all of us a bad name.  I will try to remedy that with some honest advice.

For the most part, the advice given on the welcome page is solid.  Follow those guidelines and your experience will be a good one.  As far as the types of beds, you generally have firm, plush, and pillowtop.  For many years, people were told the firmer the better.  This could not be further from the truth!  That myth led to generations of back problems.  It drives me crazy when a person comes in and says my doctor or my chiropractor told me to get the firmest bed you have.  I usually tell them to get a new doctor!  For the people who do not walk out on...

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Michelle, I've been through so...

Please help me, or at the very least point me to some past post or links.  I'm at my whit's end with this whole mattress thing.

All I want is a mattress that's not built with memory foam . . . that's all . . .

We spent all day Father's day looking at mattresses in the stores telling them we didn't want foam.  Turns out the mattress we were writing a check for had memory foam in it.  Ugh!

Anyway, I think Shifman makes mattresses without memory foam.

I saw a thread where IanS posted these manufactures as making "organic" beds

www.hastens.com
www.vi-spring.com
www.chbeckley.com
www.mcroskey.com
www.flobeds.com

I don't know that I'm looking for an "organic" mattress, all I want is a GOOD one without foam.  Does that mean organic?  Any thoughts on Shifman?

Thank you for reading my post and any suggestions that...