The Essentia Blog

Ok, so you want the skinny on soy memory foam mattresses?

The Soy memory foam available is a maximum of 15% soy…the rest is the same old petroleum based foam. When i say 15, it’s generous. It’s usually only 2-10% soy.

- Is it healthier to sleep on? No
- Does it prevent the strong chemical odor? No
- Is it green? Depends on your standards

Soy in not included in the top layer of the mattresses….which is the actual memory foam portion of the mattress. The soy in added to the base foam. This is the industry’s way of going green. Let’s put salad in our 3 patty hamburger and call it the Healthy Supreme Burger . Big Mattress Co are like every other billion dollar industry. Smoke and Mirrors.

Ford developed a foam which replaces an impressive 40% of the standard petroleum-based polyol used in seating materials with a soy-derived material. Their new tv commercial boasts this soy-based Bio-Foam seat filler. More soy for everyone! Let’s start burning down the rainforest for soy fields. Oh yeah, we’ve been doing that for years now. Silly me.

Big $$$$$$$$ is also saved by going with soy because it reduces the amount of petroleum used in the foam.

Now if they’d used recycled bedding foam in the car seats, that would have impress me!

All this to say that soy memory foam available in beds is the same old stinky foam that’s hot to sleep in wrapped in a nice green bow

We have only true natural memory foam.