Decryption - How Much Do You Know About The Production Of Pure Latex Mattress?
December 15,2021
The pure latex mattress is favored by more and more people because of its natural comfort, skin affinity, cleaning, and mite prevention. When choosing mattresses, more and more people tend to choose mattresses with latex. Are latex mattresses 100% pure latex? How is a latex mattress made? Let's decrypt it for you today.
Is there a pure latex mattress containing 100% latex?
First of all, we should make it clear that a latex mattress cannot be all-natural latex. Natural latex is a liquid, which is composed of 20% - 40% rubber hydrocarbon, protein, lipid, sugar, inorganic matter, and water. Natural latex liquid can not be formed without an external auxiliary agent.
After the natural latex is extracted from the rubber tree, the impurities are filtered out first, and then foamed through a series of complex processes. Only by adding external chemicals and processing through multiple processes, the mattress can be formed, so it is impossible to have a 100% pure natural latex mattress.
We often say that the purely natural latex mattress, whether at home or abroad, marked with 100% natural latex, generally refers to the absence of synthetic latex, rather than a single material made of natural latex. The latex cotton for making latex mattress materials must be processed into finished products by adding natural latex into all necessary auxiliary mixtures such as vulcanizing agent, gelling agent, and antioxidant. So there is no absolute percentage latex content.
Description of latex foaming auxiliary agent
Generally, there are 5 kinds of auxiliary agents added in the foaming of latex.
Antioxidants
It is generally white or light yellow powdery material, and its main components are derivatives of polynuclear phenols.
Accelerator
Zinc DIMETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE and benzothiazole. Their function can be simply understood as increasing reaction speed and reducing vulcanization temperature.
Vulcanizing agent
The sulfur, vulcanizing agent is similar to noodles, for example, flour and water will be boiled directly into a batter; and after the noodles are processed, they can be formed into ramen noodles.
Activator
Zinc oxide can promote the vulcanization, activation, and reinforcement of rubber, prevent aging and strengthen the vulcanization process.
Gel
Silicate
Will the chemical foaming agent added during latex foaming be harmful to the body?
These components are relatively stable, basically will not volatilize, and will not harm the human body. Of course, this is not a complete guarantee. The final analysis depends on the strength and conscience of businesses.
When we choose products, we don’t necessarily just look at brands and gimmicks. The key is to look at the merchant’s precipitation power in the industry. If they can go through the industry for 20 to 30 years, most of the company’s materials will tend to be standardized and mature. Credibility will also be different.
What is synthetic latex?
Synthetic latex has been produced and widely used since World War II. The professional name is styrene-butadiene rubber (styrene-butadiene composite), and the cost is about 20% lower than that of natural latex.
Styrene-butadiene rubber is non-toxic, but styrene used in the synthesis of styrene-butadiene rubber is likely to have some residues in styrene-butadiene rubber.
Styrene is volatile and can be decomposed into anisole and formaldehyde. Formaldehyde, colorless, but with a pungent smell. So when you buy latex mattresses, you'd better smell the smell. Generally, the products produced by large factories and technologically mature enterprises will not taste too much.
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