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The quality of your sleep and rest often determines the quality of your overall health. And the quality of your rest and sleep often depend on the type of bed.<br>
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The quality of your sleep and rest often determines the quality of your overall health. And the quality of your rest and sleep often depend on the type of bed.
The mattress of course is a critical variable since it can either cause or avoid back neck injuries, loss of mobility in middle age or other conditions that prevent people from engaging in physical activities and in keeping keep their strength,
stamina, balance and over-all healthy lifestyle. Depending on the hardness of the material, a mattress can give help improve posture and result to the best rest or cause unnecessary stress on pressure points
and may cause misalignment or joints to twist and cause bad posture or eventually, pain. The same is true for pillows.
One often over-looked part of the bed however is the bed linen since it does not directly contribute to the quality of mattresses or bed.
Nonetheless, they do provide substantial health benefits in terms of avoiding allergies and skin irritations.
Commonly, cotton sheets are considered the best material for bed linen since pure cotton is breathable, that is, it transfers moisture from the skin and feels cool in warm days but warm in cooler seasons.
The shape of the face: It is also hypoallergenic which protects skin from allergies and irritations. In addition, 100% cotton sheets are more durable.
Today, the due to the demand in green or environment-friendly products there are more luxury bed linens in Singapore made from various materials such as wool, silk, bamboo, hemp and wood pulp which are grown without chemical pesticides and herbicides.
Although they do not provide the same advantages of cotton, they are more and more becoming affordable and can often be found on bed linen sales in stores and shops especially in Singapore.
When considering buying alternative fabrics for luxury bed linin, it is also important to check fair trade certifications that assure if manufacturers engage in environmental and just trade practices since these, after all, are the main value and appeal of green products.
In terms of health and clean considerations, many customers consider cotton as one of the dirtiest crops since these products are often sprayed with large amounts of pesticides and herbicides during its cultivation and the residue of these chemicals remain in finished textile products even after cleaning.
Synthetic fabrics also often contain plastics and other chemicals and also pose health risks since these plastic chemicals can be readily absorbed by the skin and cause serious irritations.
Many bed linen sheets are also treated with chemicals to make them flame retardant, stain resistant or water resistant, and a person sleeping in these materials can easily breathe the vapors from these chemicals during sleep.
Many families in Singapore are now shifting to organic fabrics which are ideal natural bedding set can even last for years.
These organic bed linen are made from non-dyed, natural materials. Many environmentally safe bed linens in Singapore use low-impact dyes or dyes that are free from chemical bleaches, azo or heavy metal dyes, and formaldehyde or silicone sizing.
