What are the flame retardant chemicals?
Most major mattress brands treat their sleep products with hazardous and cancer-causing toxic chemicals in order to acquire the anti-flammable property necessary to withstand the two-foot thick open flame blowtorch test. The regulation does not mandate the labeling of chemicals used in fireproofing; manufactures are free to use any and all chemicals including those that have yet to be tested for hazardous side effects. Hazardous chemicals found in toxic fire retardants are boric acid (causes weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, skin rash, anemia and convulsions), antimony (causes heart, lung, and liver damage, irritation, dermatitis, itching, and pimple eruptions), decabromodiphenyl oxide (causes hair and memory loss), vinylidene chloride (causes irritation, symptoms of drunkenness, lung congestion, liver damage, convulsions), bromine (causes blurred vision, redness, pain, severe tissue burns and eye damage), and formaldehyde.
