Looking for a mattress that is comfy, organic and won’t break the bank? Check out my My Green Mattress review (plus I fly to Chicago to take a tour of their certified GOLS/GOTS factory).

In 2019, I was invited to tour the My Green Mattress factory—and I said yes in about .2 seconds flat. It’s no secret I love My Green Mattress. Over the years I’ve purchased a queen Natural Escape, a full Kiwi, a twin Kiwi, a queen mattress protector and four latex toppers. I’ve also gifted 2 latex toppers to family members too. Because, basically, if My Green Mattress is selling it? I’m buying it. Here’s why.

First of all, My Green Mattress is where comfort meets clean meets affordability. I truly believe sleeping on a clean, nontoxic mattress should be accessible to everyone and My Green Mattress is the closest I’ve found to that without compromising comfort or integrity. I’ve tried 4 organic mattresses before I landed on My Green Mattress—you can read what I thought about each one here.

IN THIS POST:

• Best Organic Mattress: My Green Mattress factory and showroom tour
• My Green Mattress specifics
• The lowest priced organic twin mattress on the market
• What’s inside a My Green Mattress?
• A breakdown of My Green Mattress’s 5 nontoxic mattress options
• What if you have a latex allergy?
• My My Green Mattress organic mattress top picks
• 5 reasons you should buy a My Green Mattress organic mattress

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Best Organic Mattress: My Green Mattress factory and showroom tour

Check out this video👇 for a peek inside the My Green Mattress showroom and factory. It’s a mashup of some of my Instagram stories and raw footage I took on the tour…(press the cc button to enable captions).

The My Green Mattress showroom is located in the back of the Quality Sleep Shop showroom in a suburban Illinois town called La Grange—about 25 minutes away from downtown Chicago. You can actually see the city skyline as you drive from La Grange toward town. It’s a stone’s throw away, with a large commuting population. 

My Green Mattress is a family owned business with 14 employees total. The original company opened its doors in 1968 and current owner, Tim Masters, was hired on as an employee at the age of 20 in 1990. Soon after that, Tim bought the company in 1995 at the age of 25 and has owned it ever since.

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In the early days, Tim lived above the original factory/showroom in an apartment (which made for the world’s shortest commute to work). The phone in his apartment was connected to the showroom and Tim was full of stories about answering and fulfilling orders at 1 a.m. from people who couldn’t sleep or people who may have had one too many. It also means that when their young daughter “played phone” at home, she didn’t answer her toy phone with the typical “hello” but with a toddler version of “Quality Sleep Shop.” 

Tim also talked fondly of the early days when he would pick up Cindy, his future wife, for a date in his delivery van. The van was always (romantically) stacked high with mattresses in the back to be delivered. Or taking family trips to Wisconsin for the day (or weekend) with a mattress or two strapped to the top of the family car because, well, “It’s on the way.” 

Now the original factory/showroom has been sold and they’ve upgraded to a showroom in La Grange, Illinois with a manufacturing factory located about 10 minutes away.  

The showroom is built in two sections. Quality Sleep Shop is the main showroom which is basically conventional mattresses which have not been certified organic. Owner Tim says the mattress store has been around since the 1960s and there is a local cliental who just want what they want. 

These look and feel more like a traditional mattress and cater to the conventional market in terms of what a mattress “should look and feel like.” BUT the cool thing is, Tim still uses natural materials in his Quality Sleep Shop mattresses like cotton and organic cotton and he never uses anything that’s been treated with fire retardants. So in the end, even his conventional customers are getting a better option, whether they know it or not. 

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My Green Mattress specifics

GOLS/GOTS Factory Certification

Then there is the back showroom, which features the My Green Mattress line. My Green Mattress is a subset of Quality Sleep Shop and was inspired by Tim’s third child, Emily, who suffered from severe allergies and eczema. Tim had the idea of building her a 100% clean mattress to see if it would help reduce her symptoms and guess what? It did—and practically overnight. 

With this, Tim wondered if there would be more people interested in a mattress like this too—and he was right. 

My Green Mattress has continued to grow and as of 2019, they are officially GOLS and GOTS FACTORY CERTIFIED from Control Union Certifications. This is huge considering there are only a handful of GOLS/GOTS certified mattress factories currently in the USA. A factory-certified GOLS/GOTS mattress is different than a mattress “made with” certified GOLS/GOTS materials. Here’s why: 

• The factory is audited every year for materials used.
• Every material is tagged, indexed and marked for traceability.
• The certification by the Control Union meets strict requirements in the craftsmanship of organic textile and organic latex sleep products.
• My Green Mattress has always sourced eco-conscious and nontoxic materials to create luxurious, healthy sleep solutions, and now the process by which the products are crafted is also certified organic.
• Mattresses are made from sustainable, biodegradable and recyclable materials including carbon-neutral, GOLS certified organic Dunlop latex made from the sap of rubber trees and GOTS certified organic wool.
• Other criteria the factory meets to be certified organic include maintaining top standard cleanliness, operating state-of-the-art machinery and ensuring a safe and educated work environment.

The GOLS/GOTS factory certification allows for 5% of the total mattress to comprise non-certified materials. My Green Mattress sits way under that at 2.3%, which accounts for things like metal coils. 

USA sourced EcoWool®

Their wool used to be sourced from New Zealand, then it was sourced from the Netherlands and France for a while and now it is 100% USA sourced from The Woolgatherer. This is a California-based company that produces the highest quality of EcoWool® from sheep raised on family-run farms that follow strict guidelines ensuring that their wool is grown in a thoughtful and sustainable manner.

MADE SAFE Certification

Plus, as of 2023 My Green Mattress is MADE SAFE certified.

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The lowest priced organic twin mattress on the market

My Green Mattress offers THE MOST AFFORDABLE GOLS + GOTS certified mattress currently on the market. 

And they can do this because they have built their company from the ground up since 2007. Plus they offer direct sales only cutting out any middlemen costs. And, they have a solid local following and a growing national following with very little spent on advertising. Newer mattress companies have to allocate a significant amount more of their budget on advertising to get their company off the ground which automatically inflates prices.

The other benefit of being around for a while is that My Green Mattress offers a 20-year warranty, which can actually stand on its own two legs. On the other hand, when a newer company that offers a 20 or 25 year warranty…who knows what that actually means? It could be good for a year or less considering the fact that 80% of new businesses fail within the first 5 years. 

The other cool thing about being around for a while is owner and craftsman Tim has been making mattresses with his own hands for 30 years. THIRTY YEARS. And he is super passionate about always improving his materials, process and manufacturing. He told me he’s LITERALLY ordered and taken apart almost every organic mattress on the market to see how it’s made to gain insight into his own designs and to beat out the competition. 

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A peek inside a My Green Mattresses

That being said, I was shell-shocked at how simple his mattresses are designed. I’ve been sleeping on them for years now, but seeing the mattress assembled kind of blew my mind. I mean, it’s just a coil spring topped with latex and surrounded in an organic cover. That’s it. And they are literally HANDMADE. 

You can see above, this mattress is just coils sandwiched between latex and wrapped in a cotton cover. Here is a closer look below. It’s really that simple.

And each mattress cover is hand sewn. 🤯

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My Green Mattress mattress options

Currently, My Green Mattress sells four mattresses, each with their own unique selling point.

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Questions about latex allergies 

I’ve had several people ask if the latex My Green Mattress is safe for people with latex allergies. Now, while I can’t personally answer that, I did talk to My Green Mattress and this is what they had to say.

“We use 100% GOLS organic Dunlop latex, with no fillers or additives.

Dunlop is made from taking the sap of the rubber tree and using a mixture of sulfur and vegetable fats that causes it to puff up and gives it the spongy texture.  The mixture is then fired in molds in kilns and hardens this way. It is repeatedly washed with pure water after to wash away impurities and is then thrown into the fire again to fully dry off any excess moisture.

Because it is fired in this way, the vast majority of plant proteins from the rubber tree sap burn off. This makes it much more hypoallergenic, and only those with the most severe anaphylactic responses to the actual plant protein would have any sort of reaction at this point.

Synthetic latex, such as what’s used in the medical field in things like gloves and bandages, have harsh additives that cause people to react on the skin. This can lead some people to believe that they have an undiagnosed allergy to latex, when really it’s just contact dermatitis from the powders and such.

Anyone concerned with a potential latex allergy should consult with their physician and we are always willing to send a sample of our latex to anyone who wants to experience it and test their reaction.”

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My MGM organic mattress top picks

For adults, the Natural Escape is a hole-in-one. Do you like a firm mattress? Keep it as it is. Do you like a little more give/plushness? Add a latex topper to it. If your partner prefers firm and you prefer plush, add a topper to one side of the king mattress for the perfect compromise. 

For kids, the Kiwi is where it’s at. It has a little more bounce/give than the Pure Echo and it costs less. You can even get it two sided so you can flip it to extend the life of the mattress. Add a topper for extra comfort. 

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5 reasons why trying My Green Mattress is a no brainer

1. They offer a 20-Year warranty. My Green Mattress warranties any mattress for a period of 20 years against defects. If your mattress has a defect covered under warranty, My Green Mattress will provide you with a replacement mattress, of the same model and size of the original mattress. More here.
2. They offer a sleep guarantee or a 120-Night Sleep Trial which means you can return your mattress for a full refund within 120 nights from date of purchase. 
3. In the event that a replacement mattress is sent, My Green Mattress will ask that you donate the used mattress to charity to help repurpose the mattress for someone in need.
4. They use recycled and recyclable shipping boxes. 
5. My Green Mattress also offers an additional $50 off to veterans. More here.

Check out this video that compares My Green Mattress to their competitor:

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Have you tried My Green Mattress?

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