A couple of months ago my husband and I decided to bite the bullet and “invest” in an organic latex mattess. With all of the news about the chemicals in mattresses, it wasn’t a difficult decision. I mean – we SLEEP for HOURS on our mattress – and I just could not imagine doing that on something laden with toxic chemicals.

So, me being me, I wanted to try to shop local which meant I did lots of research and found what seemed to be a great New England company, based in Maine. I contacted a few other companies but decided to go with the Maine company, SimplyOrganicSleep.com. Well, were we in for a treat.

First they told us the mattresses were made in New York, but it turns out only the mattress cover is made there. The latex is actually poured in Sri Lanka. Hmmm.

Second, the mattress was on backorder. So a VERY long story (involving 2 days off from work, shipping NIGHTMARES with DHL where the packages went from NY to PA to OH to PA to RI back to OH back to RI) short, we finally got the mattress parts about a month late.

Then – we got to put it together. Yes – it came in 3 pieces. Each one is a dead weight – a huge floppy 70lb piece of latex. The great thing is that you can customize how you want it – soft, medium, firm layers – any combination. But it was a bear to put together the first time. Plus we found lots of rips, tears etc crom the shipping experience. What a nightmare. We asked to have new latex shipped. It arrived a week later – but it was terrible. It was all really soft – totally different from the first set.

Well – I’ll spare you the rest of the details and frustrations but the end result is that we kept the original set to avoid putting the mattress together for the 3rd time.

And you know what? We actually LOVE the mattress. (Thank goodness). I have to say it is incredibly comfortable. We sleep very well and have far fewer aches and pains in the morning. But would I recommend the company we used? Probably not. There are plenty of others out there – so definitely check them out.