NBD-Organic™
Baby Products
NBD-Organic™
Baby Products:
The NBD-Organic™
Baby Products are manufactured under our private label in Canada by a leading
natural beds/bedding company -- exclusively for Natural Beds Direct™.
We previously offered identical products from the same manufacturer at
considerably higher prices under a major brand name (that we are not permitted
to mention online).
We sell NBD-Organic™
Baby Products with our highest recommendation.
The following is derived from
information provided by the manufacturer. We do not guarantee the accuracy of the manufacturer's product claims.
NBD-Organic™
products are designed for those who wish to live in a cleaner, safer
environment, while enjoying a top quality, hand-made product. Our products
are made with the finest materials nature can provide -- certified organic and
handpicked cotton, organic wool, and Natural Rubber.
A growing number of people are sensitive to the chemicals
used in the manufacture of everyday items. Traditional bedding contains
synthetic materials and chemicals, such as formaldehyde and arsenic. Such
bedding off-gases harmful vapors throughout the night for years after your
purchase. Such off-gassing has been associated with a variety of health
problems, such as asthma, sore backs, and multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS).
With such considerations in mind, NBD-Organic™
products feature the purest natural materials that maintain such purity during
the manufacturing process.
Organic Cotton:
All
NBD-Organic™ products
-- mattresses, foundations, pillows, comforters, etc. -- contain pure,
organically grown and harvested cotton.
Cotton grown in industrialized countries is generally
saturated with pesticides and herbicides and absorb all the chemicals that
modern fertilizers deposit in the soil. Machine picked, it is full of
impurities, oil, leaves, and dirt.
The manufacturer informs us that the cotton it uses is
cultivated and hand-picked (click image to enlarge) in the traditional cooperative manner that has been
followed for centuries in certain valleys high in the Peruvian Andes.
It is grown organically, without the use of synthetic
pesticides, herbicides, or defoliants to fertilize the crop, control plant
growth, or fight pests. No synthetic chemicals are used to strip the leaves in
preparation for the harvest or during the manufacturing process. Hand
picking
ensures that it is the cleanest, purest, least aromatic, and most resilient
cotton fiber available. Click image to enlarge.
Europe's oldest and most prestigious certification agency,
KRAV of Sweden, has certified the organic cotton used on our products.
This stamp of approval is not only a guarantee of organic standards, but also
that social rights are observed in the production of the cotton. All
cotton used in
NBD-Organic™ batting,
filling, and fabrics is this clean, pure, organic product. It is woven to
very high standards into the finest, softest fabrics, in Germany and
Switzerland.
Pure Wool:
The
wool in NBD-Organic™
products comes exclusively from Texel, an island off the coast of Holland.
It has a population of about 13,300 people and more than 100,000 sheep!
The people of Texel have been raising sheep for hundreds of years and have
developed a unique breed of sheep that is both hardy and produces wool of
exceptional quality.
Texel sheep (click image to enlarge) have adapted to a very windy and harsh
environment to produce a unique, long wool fiber, with a high crinkle factor and
high natural lanolin content. Products made from Texel wool are softer, thicker, warmer, and longer lasting.
It is especially well suited to sleep products because of its superior
durability, insulation, and moisture regulation.
Texel wool is harvested from a sustainable source without detriment or harm to the animal.
Each sheep is shorn every spring, producing about 11 lb. of high quality wool.
The sheep are raised organically on a land
that has never been used for agriculture and, thus, has been protected from
chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides. Click on sheep image
below to enlarge.
Using
craftsmanship based on experience and environmental sensibility, the raw fleece
is processed without the use of any dyes or bleaches.
According to the manufacturer, bleached wool contains toxic compounds, including
highly toxic dioxin -- something we can all do without. The wool is
cleaned using a unique chemical-free process that produces exceptionally clean
wool, while retaining high natural lanolin content.
All wool used in NBD-Organic™
products must be processed under strict requirements to be considered safe for
use. In this way, we can be sure of the purity of finished products.
Note that NBD-Organic™wool
must be free of any sort of plastic, bailing twine, and mothballs. Fleece
must be well skirted; it must not contain hay, burrs, belly hair, manure, etc.
Processing is restricted. Usual processes performed on
wool are not allowed, such as carbonizing (a process that uses carbonic acid to
dissolve chaff), shrink-proofing, chemical scale removal, and moth-proofing.
The manufacturer states that it strictly prohibits any
process that uses chemicals or produces toxins in the wool.
Finished batting can only be washed
with vegetable-based soaps, instead of chemical pesticides. All
fiber lubrication, static control, or wetting agents are vegetable-based and
petroleum-free. Finally, the manufacturer requires that the wool be stored
in an unscented atmosphere.
97% Natural Latex:
We
feature an NBD-Organic™
Natural Latex Crib Mattress made of 97% pure latex, 100% Organic Cotton, and
pure wool. The latex
is made from Natural Rubber, which is the most durable and
elastic material available. A 97% latex core is flexible yet stable, absorbent, resilient, and provides excellent heat
and moisture regulation and air circulation.
Click
on images to enlarge.
Natural
Rubber is a renewable resource. It is the milk or sap tapped from the
Hevea Brasiliensis -- the common rubber tree -- grown on Malaysian
plantations especially selected for their high quality product. The
supplier is located in an area that produces the finest quality rubber for
mattress use, an extremely durable, elastic material characterized by its
ability to retain its shape and original firmness. Because the product is
manufactured where the sap is harvested, the manufacturer is able to sustain the local
economy and provide jobs, without depleting the natural resources of the country
of origin. To assure consistency in rubber quality, the manufacturer uses
only bud-grafted rubber trees -- meaning that rubber from one tree to the
next will be chemically identical and thus will mix well.
An important element of the NBD-Organic™ manufacturing process is
that the processing of the Hevea milk is done close to the Malaysian plantation.
This is done because rubber destabilizes when it is kept in a liquid form for
too long. This can be avoided by the addition of chemicals, but since
the manufacturer wants its product as pure as possible, the manufacturer represents that it cannot
add chemicals. For NBD-Organic™ products, the milk is harvested in the morning,
and by the afternoon it is being molded into sheets, later shipped to Canada,
where they are expertly covered at the plant.
Click image to enlarge.
The manufacturer uses the Dunlop system to produce a 97% pure
latex
for our NBD-Organic™
Natural Latex Crib Mattress. The process involves only air, natural soap, and
vulcanization agents (soda ash and zinc), which are used to ensure that the rubber keeps its form.
Note: We
make no guarantees about degree of firmness or comfort of baby products sold.
Those subjective measures are determined by individual experience.
