What exactly is "natural"

[Nom_de_Plume]

I recently stumbled upon a website that offered off the grid retreat cabins for rent and came across the phrase "king sized natural foam mattress" and couldn't rectify my definition of "natural" with "foam mattress"
Anyhow so I went on the internet for a bit of a search and found this:http://www.plasmabed.com/voc-tested/

Tested by Hall Analytical Laboratories (third party independent testing facility), our pressure relieving memory foam layer is:
Made without ozone depleters
Made without PBDEs, TDCPP or TCEP (“Tris”) flame retardants
Made without mercury, lead and heavy metals
Made without formaldehyde
Made without phthalates regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Low VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) emissions for indoor air quality (less than 0.5 parts per million)
No chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Performance-tested
Durability-tested
Emissions-tested
Content-tested
Environmentally innovative
Analyzed by independent, accredited testing laboratory

So I guess my thing is, ok so it doesn't have all that stuff, but can you really sit there and call it "natural"???

[Poindexter]

True, there is nothing natural about memory foam. Anyone who has a bed made out if it know it's supernatural. :)

But seriously, I didn't know they could sell anything without flame retardant, one of the most detremental scams imposed on consumers by regulators for the benefit of chemical manufacturers of all time.

[GordonH]

Natural foam Hmmmm......... moss fill mattress naturally forms to your body. lol

[Nom_de_Plume]

I was all excited when I read the resort had "natural foam" for some reason I thought "sea sponge" or something.
But no... apparently you can call anything natural....

[Poindexter]

Naturalish may be more accurate.

[Lady tehMa]

I guess a straw tick would be a natural bed, provided it were stuffed inside a cotton or woolen sack.

[oneh2obabe]

The only natural memory foam in the world is made using hevea milk (rubber tree sap).

Only 2 bedding companies in North America manufacture their own foam.
1) Essentia
2) Tempur-Pedic

[Poindexter]

There used to be wool mattresses. Was given one by my 90 year old aunt when I first moved out and had no furniture. Was like sleeping on a big lumpy cloud. Imagine a mattress that has a foot of pillow top, just absorbed you. Hung onto for years and ended up in my son's playroom because it absorbed stuntman leaps softly instead of launching him like current beds. I could see wool mattresses in some environmental retreat, you may wake up with a stiff neck and back but at least you acheived it naturally.