Latex Allergies

It is common for people to ask about latex allergies when they are considering a latex bed. My experience is that people that have a diagnosed latex allergy are easy to talk to about latex beds because they know a lot about the condition.

There are two approaches; we have found that overwhelmingly the first of these two is better.

Latex allergies are topical allergies. That means when your skin comes into direct contact with latex, it is irritated. Many people that are allergic to latex learn that they are allergic when they used a latex band-aid or someone used latex gloves during a medical examination directly on their skin. Of course, in a bed, consumers don’t come into direct contact with the latex. Consumers are removed from the latex because of the layers of material between them and the latex. For most people that means this:

They have a fitted sheet on the top of their mattress.
There is a mattress protector under that.
There is a 400+ gram weight mattress cover, which consists of three layers of fabric under that on every Pure LatexBLISS bed.
There is a fire retardant layer under that on every Pure LatexBLISS bed.
The natural latex rubber is under that.

The other way to talk about it is this.

Many times, consumers are allergic to the proteins in latex. Natural Talalay Latex Rubber is rinsed five times in the manufacturing process. Dunlop Process Latex is rinsed one time. Here is the problem in using this as an explanation; whether the latex is washed out once or five times, how do you guarantee a consumer that ALL of the proteins were washed out in either process. It certainly makes sense that five times is better than one, but lingering in a consumer’s mind is always whether everything is gone.