Organic Toddler Bedding
December 19th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Organic Toddler Bedding and the Advantages over Synthetic Toddler Bedding
We want only the best for our babies and toddlers, but we also have to be sensible. Toddlers are unbelievably messy and grow faster than the national debt. There is no sense buying top of the line baby/toddler clothing and bedding if they outgrow it or destroy it in less than fifteen minutes. With organic toddler clothes and organic toddler bedding, you not only get something good for your toddler but also good for the planet.
Disadvantages of Synthetic Materials
Modern methods of farming, with vast amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, are proving to be more and more of a health hazard. The run off from farms, using these chemicals inevitably washes into drinking water or ground water. Pesticides, although killing off insects, have a tendency to kill any species that eats insects, including birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. With organic toddler bedding, you know that no pesticides or fertilizers were used in growing the cotton or other material.
If you don’t care about the environment, then maybe you are wondering if there are any immediate disadvantages to your toddler. There certainly are and here is why. Synthetic baby/toddler bedding tends to be loaded with dyes, traces of pesticides and other questionable chemicals. Your baby’s skin is far more sensitive than an adult’s, so they have a tendency to get irritated easily and irritated babies and toddlers mean irritated parents. Organic toddler bedding lacks irritants that can cause your toddlers skin to break-out.
Also, synthetic toddler bedding is not as long-lasting as organic toddler bedding. Sure, synthetic might be cheaper at the cash register, but you will have to replace it a lot sooner than organic toddler bedding. After 100 washes, synthetic toddler bedding will fall apart. But organic toddler bedding will still be ready for use. So, just know that synthetic bedding will hurt your wallet in the long run.
Materials Available
The three best available kinds of materials in organic toddler bedding are sheepskin, wool and cotton. If you are vegetarian, your only choice is cotton. There are some things made from hemp, but they can be hard to find. And silk is just not a practical alternative. If you opt for wool or sheepskin, the sheep have to be raised according to standards for organic farming of whatever country they come from and the skins or wool must only be treated with natural oils or cleaners. And these materials are usually non-allergenic for anyone’s skin, let alone a baby or toddlers.
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