n Debra's List you will find more than 1000 links to products that benefit your health and the environment. After more than 25 years as a consumer advocate for health and the environment and looking for products to use in my own personal life, I know where to buy a few things and how to choose toxic-free and green products. 
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Beds & Bedding
White Lotus Home
This is the site I recommend most for inexpensive natural fiber mattresses. "Handcrafted natural fiber mattresses, pillows, and accessories without toxic chemicals" since 1981. They make all-cotton mattresses without springs because "the use of steel in mattresses is responsible for enormous amounts of air and water pollution every year, not to mention the devastation that strip mining has on the land where coal and iron ore are extracted." In addition, each and every mattress has been made entirely by hand. "I can put a mattress-crafter in a room with a natural fabric mattress case, a bale of cotton, a needle, some thread, and just her two hands, and she will come out with a 100% handmade mattress that is more comfortable, more supportive, will not poison the earth or the sleeper and costs less than $300." Made from "green" cotton scrap fibers (they are too short to spin for textiles) which have had had no chemical processing after harvesting--no bleaching, fungicides or dyes. They also make pillows filled with kapok, buckwheat, wool, buckwheat/wool, or organic cotton, wool toppers, and "The Stowaway"--a smaller version of their mattress that can be rolled up, tied, and carried for an exercise mat or traveling. Also organic cotton sheets, 100% cotton mattress pads, and bedroom furniture. "The environmental stewards at White Lotus believe that if the cost of saving the earth and protecting one's health was out of reach for most people's budgets, true progress would never be made. For that reason, in part, White Lotus is very efficient with resources and keeps its prices where almost everyone can take part in making the world a better place." 100% of their energy is supplied by wind power.
New JerseyVISIT WEBSITE
Shepherd's Dream
This company is about wool--sleeping on it and under it, cuddling with it, and loving the wool and the sheep and the land. Founder Eliana Jantz has been working with wool as long as I've been writing about natural products (her daughter now runs the business). Eliana led the development of EcoDomestic Wool, "a collaboration which involves the sheep growers, wool processors, product makers and promoters in gradually developing an infrastructure which ensures environmentally friendly and sustainable practices and fair prices to the woolgrower." All within a few miles distance, the sheep are pastured, the wool is milled, and the products are sewn by local women in a renovated storefront, all in site of majestic Mt. Shasta in northern California. Outfit your entire bed with wool mattress, comforter, and pillows, and you won't need to count sheep to get a good night's sleep. They also sell materials to make your own beds and bedding, including their gorgeous Montague Ecowool batts, scrap wool batting (great for stuffing pillows, soft toys or insulation for drafty spots), organic cotton (twill, sateen, muslin), wool fabric, and melton wool blanket fabric.
CaliforniaVISIT WEBSITE
Rawganique
Luxury goes organic with these bedding items made with cotton, wool, French linen, and hemp. Futons and mattresses, mattress covers, top quality organic bed linens, comforters and duvet covers, pillows, blankets--all made from organic materials. Also mattress covers and organic wool moisture pad protector. Many items are exclusive to this site. "Our hemp products are, of course, sustainably made with no sweatshop, child, or underwaged labor involved at any step of the cultivation or manufacturing process -- this is something which we have taken pride in from the very beginning."
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Allergy Buyers Club
Royal-Pedic mattresses plus a good selection of bedding items. Because this is an allergy-oriented website and not a natural products website, some of the items are "hypoallergenic" synthetics, so read descriptions carefully. This website excels at creating product comparison charts (with special features, + and -, user profile, and price) for the products they sell and has them for Royal-Pedic beds, pillows, sheet sets, comforters, and dust mite covers.
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Carolina Morning
A unique natural bed system designed to exponentiate the regenerative power of sleep, based on years of sleep science research. "We have designed a set of modular bedding that is comfortable in a revolutionary way. Our bedding is supportive, well ventilating, and easy to clean and keep clean and MODULAR." Pieces include a futon made of organic kapok/wool, modular platform bedframe, buckwheat pillows, organic kapok pillows, supportive pillows for reading in bed, eye pillows, and body pillows. They also make a quantum calming mat that enhances deep rejuvenitive sleep, protects from EMFs and cell phone radiation, increases body circulation, protects from pests (bedbugs, mold, dust mites, fleas), provides 'grounding' similar to walking barefoot on the earth, and much more (recommended for home use and travel). All are manufactured in their small factory in the mountains of North Carolina.
North CarolinaVISIT WEBSITE
Dax Stores
Organic cotton and wool innerspring mattresses and 100% natural latex mattresses. Fine quality organic cotton, untreated cotton, linen, and luxury silk bedding, including sheets, blankets, and comforters. Also solid wood bedroom furniture.
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EcoChoices EcoBedroom
Mattresses made of organic cotton, pure grow wool, hemp, and natural latex. Natural bedding, including comforters, blankets, pillows, organic cotton sheets, duvets, shams, muslin covers, and mattress pads. Pillows filled with your choice of organic cotton or pure grow wool. Also darling animal-shaped pillows made of organic cotton (color-grown or dyed with low-impact dyes) and filled with certified organically grown herbs in specific blends for beneficial effects. Bedframes and coordinating bedroom furniture are made of solid pacific maple, grown in managed forests in Washington and Oregon, hand rubbed with a combination of linseed oil, tung oil, non-toxic varathane, and pure beeswax. Also a hemp cloth bedframe to support natural mattresses.
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Ecosleepshop.com Organics
Mattress/boxspring sets made with organic cotton and wool, or natural latex. Fairtrade bedlinens made in India from handpicked organic long staple cotton and low-impact dyes plus other organic cotton linens. Organic cotton and wool comforters, organic wool-filled mattress pads and toppers, cotton and wool comforters, wool- and latex-filled sleep and specialty pillows.
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Essentia
A latex mattress with NO latex odor (I smelled it myself). This unique, natural latex "memory foam" mattress is made with a special process. The natural latex is expanded into foam using water, essential oils, and plant extracts, rather than chemicals, resulting in a natural latex that is 100 percent natural in both the raw material and processing. This foam was developed by a man who had been in the latex foam business all his life and was diagnosed with cancer. Their custom molding process also eliminates toxic glues. Their proprietary memory foam recovers 72% faster--making it easier to move around in bed--and is 80% more breathable, which prevents building excessive body heat and sweating. I have a sample of this and it has very little odor--nothing like the odor from other samples of latex I've tried. NOTE: be sure to ask for their unscented foam, unless you want a mattress that smells of fragrant essential oils. Your choice. Canada
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Good Night Naturals
"Just about everything natural and organic you could want to transform your bed and bath into an oasis of health, vitality and beauty." Chemical-free organic mattresses, eco-friendly adjustable bed frames, organic wool comforters, pillows, latex mattresses, latex toppers, organic cotton sheets and luxury linens. Beautiful, high quality pieces made of natural-color and dyed organic cotton, PureGrow™ Wool, bamboo, lyocell (wood-pulp fiber and cotton blend) and other specialty natural fibers (check out their supersoft microcotton).
MassachusettsVISIT WEBSITE
