Natural Wool and Organic Cotton Futons With ColorGrown Covers

VitalBodies has been selling naturally pure futons for many years. We have many sizes and thicknesses to choose from. Our futons have an Organic ColorGrown cover. ColorGrown color means that no dyes are used as the color is naturally part of the cotton itself in that the cotton grows that color.

Many people have questions about natural futons and this blog post will help answer many of those questions.

What is the Fill? We have wool filled and organic cotton filled.The wool fill has some organic cotton batting in it also and the organic cotton is pure cotton.

Flame retardants? With the wool filled futons the manufacturer does not add flame retardants to the futon as the wool is naturally flame resistant. The manufacturers are required by law to add flame retardants on the cotton filled futons unless you have a doctors note saying that the flame retardants are not recommended for you for health reasons. If you want to avoid flame retardants get the wool futon or have your doctor write you a note on their letter head saying you should have the flame retardants added if you what the all cotton futon.

Futon Frames? As for a futon frame, you really want to have a futon frame that was made or intended for a futon. What is important is that you have slats under the futon. A futon must breathe or they can mold from the moisture they pick up from the person sleeping. Slats should not be spaced to far apart. The thinner the futon the more slats you need and the smaller the gaps between them or you will feel the slats. The normal 6 inch futon and standard frame should be a guide for what works. You can buy or build a frame. If you buy one try to avoid the cheap metal kind as they tend to bend from normal use and do not last long and end up junk you have to reuse or recycle. VitalBodies would advise against plywood under a futon as you run the HIGH risk of mold. Often plywood works for a while and then boom, major mold.

Foundations? Yes we have foundations for futons. They are basically a wooden structure with slats covered with fabric and such and sized to make the futon be more bed like in height and looks. This can allow you have use standard dust ruffles and the like. This kind of foundation is not springy, like the old box spring, it is stiff and firm.

Do the futons compress? Even if you have the perfect frame a futon will compress down in the area that the most weight is commonly on which tends to be the upper torso. The futon will not compress or settle that much where no one is laying or sitting. It is the nature of the beast so to speak. It is generally suggested to flip, rotate, flip, rotate etc to help ensure the futon compresses more evenly. If you flipped this time, rotate next time and so on... One can some what fluff a futon to some degree but they are heavy and bulky so it is limited how much one can do so. One can stack things on the outer edges (by day) for a time, to get the unused parts to compress also. One can also buy a number of thinner futons and stack them but that is more costly. This does allow the ultimate freedom to fluff, rotate and flip. Additionally one can take them out and sun them sometimes. Sleep all over the futon and not just in one place if the futon compressing bothers you. Also consider adding a topper.

Natural Curves? Most people love the nest like curve of a futon. Others tend to think it should be flat as a board, but this is just not natural for a futon...

Hand made? Our futons are hand made and made to order.

Sourced? From the manufacturer to the sheep herders, every thing is sourced in the US.

Custom Sizing? Yes, just let us know. Most of the time unless they are much larger there is no extra cost.

Can you Price Match? Yes for the exact item or at least apples for apples. Remember though, these are not commodity items, these are hand made one at a time by caring people and they do not have high margins. Hand made items are not generally the best items to try to save big bucks.

Are They Real? If you were to ask every question you could think of to see if they are natural, pure and such, you would know these are the real thing. We do not offer the fake organic stuff and wish no one else did.

If price were no object what is the ultimate? We would say having a number of thin 2" wool futons. You can stack them for comfort. Plus having a number of them allows you to sun them, flip them and rotate them with relative ease. You can also do yoga on them, lay out in the sun and sun bathe, have a sleep over, or sleep out under the stars on your deck etc. Plus you still might find they were comparable in price to a latex mattress.

We were looking to buy a 3 or 4 inch Full Wool Fill Organic Cotton Futon. We are concerned that the 3 inch would not offer as comfortable sleep as a thicker mattress but at the same time we are very interested in the ability to roll it up during the day. Does the 3 inch provide a very comfortable mattress (on a solid surface not slats)? Or would you recommend the 4 inch and if so does it roll up fairly easily. Currently we have a 6 inch and it does not roll up out of the way at all, and we want to make sure that while we are comfortable we can tuck this futon away during the day.

That is a hard question to answer. My parents would not sleep on a 3" futon but I might. Most would be challenged by their bones feeling the frame unless one sleeps in certain positions or unless one is more flexible to roll off the bones in question.

You do want to be careful with a futon on a solid surface. They need to breathe and dry. We had two stacked 2" futons on a solid surface and the futon got moldy.

Your results will vary depending on the relative moisture and how much moisture your body puts out and if you heat the room and how much and and... And yes we were living in a rain forest near the ocean. A 6" would indeed be hard to roll. If someone I asked I would say a 6" is not really roll-able, but one could roll them if they really wanted to. I think a 4" would be roll-able and would be comfortable. A 3" is getting slim/thin and would appeal to a younger or alternative type of person. Would not suit the main stream at all. Would not be classically comfortable. The main stream thinks they want firm, but sleep on 2 feet of mattress, not really firm, but firm if you know what I mean. A classic Thermo-rest on solid ice is firm in my book. Some like firm and some really firm and others firm but cushy. A 3" with a topper would be really nice also in many ways as that is firm and cushy.

If you do thin, like a 3" (or even a 4" which is light but not thin) and you shift to slats, you need more narrower slats and less space between them than the usual wood slat futon frame. The usual futon frame is made for a 6" or better for sure.

We want you to happy with your futon no matter who you buy it from. We hope you buy from us as we offer the finest futons made that we know of in terms of quality and purity. You are supporting many small caring businesses if you buy one or more of our futons. Whether you buy from us or someone else go natural and go organic.

How firm / soft are the various thickness options?
They are all firm. That said, futons compress from Soft to Firm.

So an 8"=6", 6"=4", 4"=2.5-3" and 3"=2". No many people will find it comfortable sleeping on a 3" (2" compressed) futon.

How thick are the wool and cotton layers individually (how much wool vs cotton)?
Organic Cotton core wrapped in 1/2" wool batting - that means there is 1/2" of wool on each side.

...And if you can buy hand made.