Can an Organic Mattress Help With Bedbugs?
This past year bed bugs have received a fair amount of press, namely for infestations around the country. If you have recently traveled and stayed in hotels, you may worry about the risk of bringing home a few critters in your luggage – if you feel that is the case, keep your luggage out of the house (preferably in a garage) until you have determined your house is clean. Then you can work on cleaning the contents of your luggage, including the case. That done, however, you might wonder if there is a bed you can buy that will repel bed bugs. Some manufacturers of organic mattresses will have you believe that their products are designed to keep bed bugs from infesting your sleep space. Mattresses made of wool batting as opposed to cotton may work to keep bed bugs at bay, though when it comes to these tiny pests – which can grow as large as five millimeters and feed on human blood – they may not be eliminated entirely. Having a mattress made of wool, or at the very least a woolen mattress
