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The first thing that usually sends thinking people who care about their health running to the “organic mattress store” is the realization that most beds are soaked in flame retardant. For 99% of the beds out there, such a chemical treatment is necessary – beds have to meet certain fire safety standards, and the cheapest and best way to get synthetic petroleum based foams and highly flammable polyester fabrics, fillers and other junk to meet those standards is to cover them with poison chemical fire retardant.

If you are one of the enlightened and have made the decision to sleep organic, here is a checklist to help you compare organic mattresses and choose the one that is right for you.

Things to Consider When ‘Going Organic’

1. Get the facts straight. There is a lot of misinformation out there and you should be aware that a mattress can be called “organic” as long as it has some organic material in it. For example, a mattress may contain organic cotton as a filler, and be advertised as an organic mattress, even if there is glue and polyurethane foam inside and a have a toxic acrylic, rayon or nylon fabric covering the entire thing.
2. Make a list of known organic mattress materials so that when you are making comparisons, the process of elimination will be as simple as crossing off those beds that have anything else inside. Look for things like: organic wool, organic cotton, organic bamboo, organic steel, or special coir fiber which is made of shredded coconut shells. Organic wool is especially important because in its natural, untreated form, it is naturally fire resistant, antimicrobial, anti-allergen, dust mite and bed bug resistant. Equally important, it is supremely comfortable.
3. One important note about organic latex. If you are considering a natural latex mattress, make sure it is 100% from organic non-chemically treated rubber trees. However, there is no mattress company making a 100% organic latex bed. It is not possible to whip sap from the rubber tree and produce a natural foam. There must be at least some additives.
4. Last, just like food, if you have never heard of it, it is probably not good for you. Take mattresses with things like polyurethane foam, formaldehyde, boric acid, antimony, melamine, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers off of your natural organic mattress comparison list.

Brands That Use Organic Materials in Mattresses

We have done the research and here is our short list of acceptable organic mattresses.

1. Hastens: Renowned Swedish mattress masters Hästens make each one of their mattresses by hand using natural materials like horsehair, flax, wool, steel and pine.
2. Savvy Rest: Organic mattresses made in Virginia with natural latex, organic cotton and organic wool.
3. White Lotus: A great source for healthy bedding, including natural latex mattresses, organic wool and cotton mattresses, all handmade in the US
4. The Wool Bed Company: Natural wool mattresses, hand-made, free-form, include only material raised or grown on farmland in the USA, without any wood, metal, foam or latex.
5. Woodstock Organic Mattress: Handmade in the USA of 100% natural materials like organic cotton, wool, horsehair, and 98% pure latex. No polyester, polyurethane foam, or other harmful chemicals are used.
6. Editors Pick! Vispring: Hand made in England with natural materials including Shetland wool, organic cotton, and Austrian horsetail. Learn more about Vispring at Brickell Mattress in Miami.

So, Time to Go Organic?

Natural and Organic mattresses are much more comfortable than synthetic. This how people used to sleep, on top of all natural farm raised goodness, and it is still the best. You can experience the luxurious comfort of all natural organic mattresses at Brickell Mattress, South Florida’s Specialty Sleep Store.

Call. Speak with a Sleep Expert about the best organic materials for your new bed and mattress. Give us a call at 305-326-4000.

Appointments. In the Brickell/ Miami area? Drop by! We welcome walk-ins, and we welcome readers to contact Brickell Mattress online to schedule an appointment with a Sleep Expert.

With the fast pace lifestyle that many of us lead, there’s one thing we never seem to get enough of…. sleep. Sleep plays a vital role in our overall well-being, so we definitely pay the price when we don’t get enough. Here are some tips on how to get better sleep.

1. Set your bedtime, and stick to it

Go to bed and get up at the same time every day, even on weekends, holidays and days off. Being consistent reinforces your body’s sleep-wake cycle and helps promote better sleep at night.

2. Create a bedtime ritual

Do the same things each night to tell your body it’s time to wind down. Your body needs time to shift into sleep mode, so spend the last hour before bed doing a calming activity such as reading. Relaxing habits can promote better sleep by easing the transition between wakefulness and drowsiness.

3. Exercise Regularly

Regular exercise has been shown to improve sleep quality, as long as you don’t work out too close to bedtime. A post-workout burst of energy can keep you awake. Aim to finish any vigorous exercise 3 to 4 hours before you hit the hay.

4. Avoid Napping

Power napping may help get you through the day, but if you find that you can’t fall asleep at bedtime, eliminating even short catnaps may help you doze off later on.

5. Get Comfortable

Design your sleep environment to provide the conditions you need for sleep. Your bedroom should be a cool temperature, and should also be free from any noise that might disturb your sleep. Finally, your bedroom should be free from any light. Make sure your mattress is comfortable and supportive. The one you have been using for years may have exceeded its life expectancy – about 9 or 10 years for most quality mattresses.

It is no surprise that sleep plays an important roll in your overall health, but it may be a bit astonishing to find out how critical your mattress is in this equation.  To put it in simple turns, sleeping on a bad mattress is like trying to scuba dive without the right equipment. In a 2011 poll, by the National Sleep Foundation over 90 percent of people said a comfortable mattress is important to a good night’s sleep.

By now, I’m sure we’ve heard all the benefits of getting a good nights rest from, weight loss, to a longer life span. What most people aren’t aware of are the negative effects of sleeping on a low quality mattress.

Not only is sleeping on a low quality mattress uncomfortable, but studies have shown that sleeping on a bad mattress effects stress levels, allergies, and mood. That doesn’t even include the negative effects it can have on your back.  Here are some signs that you might be ready for a new luxury mattress. If you are no longer sleeping like you used to it may time for a new mattress, especially of you’re sleeping better away from home.  You don’t need to wait for the springs to start popping out to know that its time to move on.  Dust mites feed on the dead skin cells you shed, and a whole host of them can be found in and on your bed. As many as 20 million Americans are allergic to the dust mites, so if your allergies are acting up more than usual it may be time to upgrade to a luxury mattress. Another key sign that its time to part ways is if you’re experiencing worrying, racing thoughts, nervousness, etc. before bed. These symptoms maybe related to sleep quality and maybe signs that you need a new mattress.

The most important thing to remember is when it comes to your health; sleep is not something you can sacrifice. So when choosing your new luxury mattress, remember you can’t truly put a price tag on good sleep.

For the finest Beds in Florida there is only one place to go, Brickell Mattress of Miami. At Brickell Mattress we offer THE FINEST selection of luxury bedding available anywhere. Shop brands like Vi-Spring and Carpe Diem, bed makers that are widely considered the producers of the best beds in the world. The goal at Brickell mattress is to provide with the world’s best bed, while providing world class service and consultation.

Brickell Mattress carries both Ultra-Luxury brands Carpe Diem and Vi-Spring, indisputably two of the best mattress brands in the world. These beds are some of the most exclusive and can only be found in a few select luxury retailers across the country. If you are looking for simply the best in innerspring comfort, quality, durability, and the use of natural materials, you absolutely need to come in and experience these beds for yourself. Carpe Diem of Sweden has been making beds for almost a century, producing beds so unique, elegant, and luxurious; they truly have no equal, and are considered by many in the mattress world to be the most comfortable bed they have ever slept on. Vi-Spring of England makes beds that are literally fit for royalty; the Queen of England sleeps on a Vi-Spring. Utilizing some of the finest and most exotic natural materials on the planet, Vi-Spring makes beds with a passion for excellence; don’t you think you deserve to sleep like royalty?

Brickell Mattress is truly unlike any mattress store you have experienced. With an inviting and open feel, the store presents its mattresses in a calm stress-free environment, absent of the pressure from hassling salesmen. The interior was designed to present the beds as they would be seen in the home, a refreshing experience from the bland white sea of beds in your traditional department store. The store is almost reminiscent of an art gallery, presenting the beds amongst a façade of elegance and flair. The idea of this environment is to give you time to try out the beds, talk with the sleep experts, and collaborate to find a bed that will truly fit you the best based on your personal preference and your body type. The true end-goal being to find you the best sleep you have ever had.

Come in today and get a luxury mattress experience unlike any other. If you do not live close to Miami but are interested in seeing the Ultra Luxury beds in store, Brickell mattress will fly you down to the store free of charge. Located at 1030 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33129, come in today and start your one of a kind mattress experience. For more information go to www.brickellmattress.com or call 305-326-4000 to talk to a sleep professional who will guide you every step of the way. Come to Brickell Mattress, and start your life changing luxury mattress experience today, don’t you deserve to sleep like royalty?

We often take our sleep and the benefits that go along with it for granted, when really sleep is an essential activity to not only our physical health but our mental health as well. A better sleep can make such a difference in our lives, a fact that many don’t realize. Here are ten tips for a better sleep, resulting ultimately in a healthier, happier life.

Prioritize Sleep

Sleep is really the next healthiest thing you can do for your body everyday besides eating healthy and exercising. The more importance you assign to your sleep, the more of a health benefit you will receive.

Find Your Balance

Not all of us need the same amount of sleep. Eight hours may be good for some and not enough for others. Work out the amount of sleep that is the best for you.

Keep a Regular Routine

Our bodies, when put into a sleep routine, are programmed to a rhythm of activity and inactivity. The more regular you are in your sleep patterns, the better the body will adapt to that particular pattern, leading to a deeper, more beneficial and more restorative state of sleep.

You Need Space

Invest in the largest bed possible you room can accommodate so that you can better allow yourself to have a more luxurious, undisturbed sleep.

Time in the Sun

Your body reacts to natural light waking you, and does the same for when it gets dark, prompting sleepiness and assisting your natural sleep routine. Make sure you get a reasonable amount of time outside each day.

Be Active

The more active and engaged we are during the day, the better we sleep at night. Make sure you partake in some amount of physical or mental exercise each day to get the most out of your sleep.

Ease Yourself into Bed

Try to avoid late night stimulation from caffeine, alcohol, or nicotine before going to bed. These stimuli, closer to bedtime, may knock your body off of its natural sleep schedule, causing you to lie awake or avoid a deeper sleep.

Relax Your Body and Mind

Before going to bed it is important you prepare yourself for sleep. Calming activities that slow your breathing and heart rate down, like reading a book or doing a word puzzle, are excellent for preparing you for bed. Find a routine that works best for you.

Right Atmosphere

Ensure that you are in a dark and quiet environment that is the ideal temperature for your sleep. This will not only help you fall asleep but will help you stay asleep, again promoting a deeper and more restorative sleep.

Invest in a Quality Bed

This is one of the most important tips for a better sleep. So many of us go out and buy a cheap bargain mattress that has bad support and hardly any pressure relief, a ticket for tossing and turning and excessive back pain. A good quality bed is the key to a good night’s rest, so make sure that you invest in a bed that is truly comfortable and provides the right feel and support for your particular figure. It is important that you sleep on a bed that is personalized to you. Carpe Diem and Vi-Spring are both excellent luxury bed makers that build beds geared to provide the best sleep possible. These beds are designed to be fit to you, and exhibit the most quality and comfort of any other bed makers in the Ultra-Luxury category.

There is no better place to find the unique and luxurious bed you are looking for than Brickell Mattress, a premium mattress provider centrally located in the heart of Miami Florida. In store or online you can find the finest selection of air beds, adjustable beds, latex beds, and Ultra-Luxury beds. No other store in Florida can provide the breadth of selection from high quality Select Foam to the Ultra-Luxury mattresses of Vi-Spring and Carpe Diem.

Brickell Mattress is truly unlike any mattress store you have experienced. With an inviting and open feel, the store presents its mattresses in a calm stress-free environment, absent of the pressure from hassling salesmen. The interior was designed to present the beds as they would be seen in the home, a refreshing experience from the bland white sea of beds in your traditional department store. The store is almost reminiscent of an art gallery, presenting the beds amongst a façade of elegance and flair. The idea of this environment is to give you time to try out the beds, talk with the sleep experts, and collaborate to find a bed that will truly fit you the best based on your personal preference and your body type. The true end-goal is to find you the best sleep you have ever had.

Carrying both the Ultra-Luxury brands of Carpe Diem and Vi-Spring, Brickell mattress provides a selection of indisputably the two best mattress brands in the world. These brands represent simply the best in innerspring comfort, quality, elegance, durability, and the use of natural materials. It is a must that you come in and experience these beds for yourself; they are truly life-changing. Brickell mattress also carries 100% natural latex beds for those who want a bed that will be both good for them and the environment. Adjustable beds, water beds, and air beds are also available, representing some of the best brands you can find anywhere.

Brickell Mattress is located at 1030 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33129, come in today and start your one of a kind mattress experience. For more information go to www.brickellmattress.com or call 305-326-4000 to talk to a sleep professional who will guide you every step of the way. Come to Brickell Mattress, and start sleeping like you never have before.

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Brickell Mattress has teamed with Venue Magazine, (www.venuemagazine.com) to raise awareness for healthy sleep!  Venue Magazine is the brainchild of Alex Echevarria, the best Real Housewife of Miami.  Venue magazine interviews prominent Miami professionals, recaps outstanding local events, and explores amazing new products.

Venue Magazine will be hosting Brickell Mattress’s Grand Opening Party near the End of October.  Many of Miami’s prominent professionals and celebrities will be in attendance- keep reading this blog for an update on the exact date!

We’re very excited to be working with Venue Magazine and to provide all of their readers with the best sleep possible!  Turn to page 62 in the September-October 2011 edition to see our Ad.

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So you’re part of the new, hip neighborhood called Midtown Miami.  Chances are, you need a mattress for your new apartment in Midtown 2 or Midtown 4.  You could go to ZzzMattress down the street and bore yourself to sleep, or you could even go into West Elm and pay an arm-and-a-leg for some Chinese piece of bedroom furniture.  Sound about right?  Well, help is on the way as a new mattress store as fun and exciting as Midtown Miami has opened just a short drive away.  Worried about lugging the mattress back to your spot?  Don’t!  We’ve got free delivery and in-home installation.

Your art here!

Art and Beds- Who Knew?

Brickell Mattress has embraced Midtown’s nearby art district by dedicating an entire wall to a local Miami artist each month.  Walk into our store and you can tell we’re different- you’ll see huge prints of cool Miami buildings, all available for sale.   The featured local Miami artist will have his own section that will be seen by thousands of store goers each month! If you’re a budding local Miami artist and would like a place to hang your work completely free, please drop us a line and let us know.   If you’re a store visitor, come see some modern and contemporary art while sipping a complimentary crisp chardonnay.

Better miami mattresses at Affordable Midtown Prices

Besides the huge influx of corporate stores Midtown has experienced in the last few years, there is still a considerable amount of eclectic, cool stores found only in the Midtown area.  You can find quality products at working-man prices.   We try to hold the same philosophy at our store.  Sure you can find Legget and Platt adjustables,

4.9 miles away from Midtown – all highway driving.

and other name-brands; but we also have incredible and affordable new brands such as Select Foam, Select Water, and Select Air.  Looking to spend $700 to just get a mattress? –We have that.  Looking to pimp out your pad and spend $8000 on a top-of-the-line bed?- We have that too.  Here at Brickell Mattress, we consider ourselves a no-frills organization, meaning you get what you want, at the price you want.

Call Us Today 305-326-4000

Or Visit Us at 1030 SW 8^th St Miami, FL 33130

The Awful Truth – An Insiders View of the Miami Mattress Industry

Miami is an incredibly vibrant city growing at an astonishing rate.  With this growth, these people need to know where to find beds.  After living in the Miami area for over 6 years (Coral Gables, Key Biscayne, South Miami, and now Brickell), I’ve learned a thing or two about the Miami mattress industry.  This blog is intended to give you a brief understanding of some tricks and malpractices of local Miami mattress retailers, and the steps Brickell Mattress have taken to address them.

Miami Mattress Tricks and Out-Dated Business Practices Exposed!

1. The mattress with the highest profit margin will be promoted to you as the best.

Salesman are taught in the Miami mattress industry to sell you the “best” bed, when, in actuality, it is the bed the retailer makes the most money on.  Do your due diligence!  Read what the mattress is composed of and decide for yourself.

Does this really help you find the best bed?

2. Terrible Presentation and Out-Dated Mattress Collections

Let’s face it, mattresses are about as exciting to buy as used cars….but it shouldn’t be that way!  Miami mattress retailers such as zzzmattress, mattress firm, and mattress giant pack as many beds as they can into their stores, barrage you with sales signs and numbers at every corner,and light the store with anxiety-inducing fluorescent lighting.

To top it off, many of these retailers promote last year’s mattress lineup from the 3 S’s (Serta, Sealy, Simmons), as this year’s mattress collection.  Why do they do this?  They know that the customer really won’t be able to tell the difference and need to get rid of their excess inventory.

3. The Customer is Not Always First

I hate to say it because I’ve seen it, but some Miami mattress retailers will train someone for a week and then throw him/her out on the sales floor.  Do you want to be hassled by a pushy, unskilled salesman for a few hours while considering to invest thousands of dollars in a purchase?—I sure don’t.

Mattress lineups should be arranged in a layout convenient to the customer (segregated by firmness, type of mattress, price).  Unfortunately, more often than not, Miami mattress retailers have jumbled, jig-saw-puzzle store floors.

4. Owners are as Old as Dinosaurs

There’s a reason why marketing in the Miami mattress industry hasn’t changed in say…..50 years- owners are old!  The sheep-jumping-over the fence, free shipping marketing strategies Miami mattress stores use are about inventive as a rock. The names of some mattress products I’ve seen are reminiscent of the 1950s: “Go-go gadget Sleep Massager!” We’re in the 2000s, it’s time for mattress companies to catch up with the times.

Brickell Mattress- New, Honest, Inventive

Brickell Mattress is owned by a group of young entrepreneurs aged 24 to 33.  We have the products and services to make every generation of consumer feel good. From the baby-boomers who are simply looking for honest, personal-tailored help to get them a better night’s sleep, to Generation X who want and expect service from a company up-to-date with modern day technology and social networking- Brickell Mattress works to serve all.

Now, we’re not perfect, but Brickell Mattress has attempted to address some aforementioned issues in the Miami mattress industry.  When people walk into our store we want them to instantly relax and feel at home.  Our collections of latex foam, airbeds, waterbeds, and adjustable beds are tastefully displayed amongst modern art. The store layout is designed to feel open, inviting, and convenient.  A sleep expert will greet you and ask if you’d like any help, but are trained to leave you alone if you don’t want it.  Each mattress is displayed with a “mattress menu”- easy-to-read material describing the composition of the bed. You are able to peruse this information at your leisure in our Free-Wifi Coffee lounge.  Ready to make a purchase?  Our fast checkout can get you an emailed receipt in under 2 minutes.  And for the crème-de la crème, Brickell Mattress offers the free VIP service of in-home installation.  Sorry Miami mattress retailers, there are new kids on the block.

Brickell Mattress

1030 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33130
305-326-4000