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The Vimala Sleep System is composed of the Green Sleep natural rubber mattress and flexible wooden Vimala dowel foundation.
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The Green Sleep Mattress:The Green Sleep mattress is made of 3 layers of natural rubber encased in a pure grow wool, silk, and cotton zip off casing. The bottom layer is a 2" firm layer. The middle layer is a 4" layer of your choice of soft, medium, or firm. The top layer is a 2" layer of soft. For the middle layer, you can choose different firmness levels for each of the two sleep zones (queen and king only). Read more about the natural rubber in the Green Sleep mattress. The casing of the Green Sleep mattress is an organic cotton velour quilted to pure grow wool and silk. Silk, like wool, provides great heat regulation. Read more about our pure wool, silk, and organic cotton.
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The Foundation:The European Flexible Wood Dowel Foundation supports your mattress using wooden dowels suspended on the frame with adjustable polymer anchors. The polymer anchors are flexible. As you lay on the mattress, the wood dowels adjust (flex downwards) where there is pressure, and help provide superb pressure relief. The wood is untreated pure seasoned kiln-dried maple; no synthetic glues, dyes, or finishing sprays are used in any stage of production. Read more about our renewable Canadian hardwood.
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Legs:The mattress and foundation set comes with 10" unfinished wood legs. This will allow you to have a complete mattress and foundation set that stands alone. Not needed if used on a bed frame.
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Availability: Full size (Mattress and Set) and Queen size (Mattress only) are IN STOCK (medium middle layer). Any mattress not in stock will ship approximately 1-3 weeks after your order is placed. Please call for more information.
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Where It Comes From
Rubber is harvested by tapping the milk (sap) of Hevea brasiliensis (the common rubber tree). The trees grow in North Malaysian plantations especially selected for their high-quality product. No herbicides are used in these operations, because sheep graze the plantations and control growth.
We also arrange for the Hevea milk to be processed close to the plantations, because the raw product destabilizes when kept too long. Other manufacturers avoid the problem by adding chemicals. Our pledge to bring you the purest products possible means that the rubber milk harvested in the morning is molded into sheets by mid-afternoon and is soon shipped to our Canadian mattress plant. By having our rubber manufactured where the trees' milk is harvested, we also help to sustain the local economy. Jobs are created without depleting the natural resources of the country--a kindness to ourselves and the planet.
Our Rubber - Natural methods only
An injection system produces the purest natural product--for mattress cores that will keep their shape. Only air, natural soap, and natural vulcanization agents are used. At the end of the mattress life cycle, the rubber breaks down, because it is a natural, biodegradable substance.
Benefits of Natural Rubber
Incomparable Care
The wool comes from a small island in Texel, Netherlands, where a family-run business takes exceptional pride in its organic production methods. The sheep are carefully bred and live a stress-free life. During the summer months, the animals graze on land that has never been used for agriculture, guaranteeing that it is free from contaminants such as pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers. In winter, a well-ventilated, climate-controlled barn with clean floors is stocked daily with fresh bedding and a non-rationed organic food supply. The animals are also checked daily for continued health. The resulting fleeces--shorn from live animals, carefully sorted, and washed with only hot water and vegetable-based soaps (no detergents, chemicals, or chlorine bleach)--contain wool fibers that are strong and springy. The fleeces are then processed without the use of oils or bonding agents into wool that retains between
4 percent and 6 percent lanolin, a natural dust-mite repellent.
We want to offer you a fresh-air sleep experience. Neither you nor your loved ones should be breathing any harsh chemicals during sleep. Therefore, all the wool used in our batting is certified to the Oko-Tex 100 standard (www.seamegypt.com/Manuals/ecolabell/App1-3.PDF) through the Öko-Tex GmbH certification organization in Germany. Moreover, we do not permit the use of plastic, baling twine, or mothballs during shipment of our wool.
Benefits
Organic Silk
For more than 4,000 years silk thread has been woven into the most luxurious fabrics, treasured for their beauty, softness and strength. More than ten million farmers in China, India and other Asian countries raise silkworms to spin the cocoons that provide the lustrous, long fibers that are reeled into silk fibers.
Cultivated silkworms (actually caterpillars, not worms) live for 25-28 days and during that time they increase their body weight 10,000 times by constant eating. During their life cycle they molt four times, each times shrugging off the old skin and beginning the eating process again until the skin becomes too tight once again. After the final molting they scout out a place for cocooning and pupating into moths.
First they throw a safety net, and then toss their heads in a figure eight motion while extruding a semiliquid protein from the two silk glands that run the length of their bodies. This liquid silk, when exposed to air, becomes the
fiber that the silkworm uses to create - from the outside in - its own cocoon. Inside the waterproof cocoon, the silkworm pupates for two weeks and then metamorphoses into a moth, the females of which lay eggs to begin the cycle again.
In the majority of silk farming communities, while some cocoons are saved for egg production, most of the crop is not allowed to develop. The pupae are killed by hot air or steam to prevent damage to the cocoon by an emerging moth. The silk threads are reeled by child
labor and then bleached and dyed.
Our Silk - The Organic Difference
The silk in the Green Sleep mattress comes from Malaysia, a country that does not permit child labor and has normal social services. Our product is manufactured by an organic process that does not kill the pupae (growing
butterfly). You may notice that our silk is not pure white; it has a brown tinge that results from the fact that the cocoons are not boiled or steamed so the silkworm larvae are not harmed in the harvesting process. The cocoons are humanely harvested, once the
butterfly has left the cocoon.
Benefits of Silk
The main purpose of the silk is to absorb moisture, it does so better than the wool. This helps prevent the invasion of
dust mites in your bedding. Dust mites can only survive in a moist environment; with the wicking properties of silk, moisture is not retained even in the most humid climates.
Absorbing moisture also helps with heat regulation.
Incomparable purity
Cotton grown in industrialized countries is commonly saturated with pesticides and herbicides. The plant also absorbs all the chemicals that modern fertilizers deposit in the soil. In addition, machine-picked cotton is often full of impurities, oil, leaves, and dirt.
If all the cotton in the world were grown organically, the use of insecticides would be reduced by 25 percent. Working toward that end, we buy only hand-picked and chemical-free cotton. The crop is cultivated in a centuries-old traditional cooperative manner in the Cañete and Chincha valleys high in the Peruvian Andes. No defoliants, herbicides, pesticides, or synthetic fertilizers are used to control plant growth, fight pests, or fertilize the crop. No synthetic chemicals are used to strip the leaves in preparation for the harvest or during the manufacturing process. Hand-picking ensures that the resulting cotton fiber is the cleanest, purest, most resilient available. The fiber is then woven in Germany and Switzerland (again, to the highest standards) into the fine, soft fabrics that we used in all our products.
KRAV Stamp of Approval
Europe's oldest and most prestigious certification agency, KRAV of Sweden (www.krav.se/sprak/english.htm), has certified the organic cotton. Their stamp of approval is not only a guarantee of organic standards, but also that the social rights of cotton producers are respected.
Benefits of Organic Cotton
All of the cotton used in Green sleep mattress batting, filling, and fabric is the cleanest, most pure organic product available today.
Renewable Canadian Hardwood
Our Vimala Sleep System slat foundations are hand-constructed in our plant from seasoned, untreated, carefully selected natural woods such as spruce, poplar, and ash.
Where It Comes From
Incomparable selectivity in harvesting and manufacture The wood used in the
Vimala Sleep System is obtained by the sustainable harvesting method (called jardinage in Quebec). This method is a selective process in which a
government trained forestry specialist inspects trees in designated areas. The age and number of trees per acre that can be harvested are specified. Once approval for cutting has been given, other forestry personnel inspect the cutting operation to protect the forest from intrusive damage. If damage is found, it must be rectified immediately to restore balance.
Our Wood - Superior Construction
The Vimala Sleep System foundations are made exclusively of kiln-dried spruce. The slats are strong, yet flexible, providing perfect support and unmatched comfort.
Foundations can be set on legs or bed frames. The foundations are constructed of selected hardwoods, each piece individually crafted and fitted by a skilled cabinetmaker following a traditional European design. At the finishing stage, only the finest natural waxes and non-toxic oils are used on the wood.
Benefits of Untreated Wood
Vimala Sleep System wood is never treated with synthetic glues, dyes, or finishing sprays at any stage of production. Your home environment is therefore protected from the toxic "off-gassing" that accompanies the use of these harsh chemicals.
