Revamp Your Bedding For Healthier New Year's Sleep

For 2012, revamp your bedding for a healthier sleep in the new year.

Coyuchi, the first company to bring organic bedding to the US, has many eco-friendly and natural bedding options to give your bed a new look and feel for an overall better sleep. Buying organic will help you sleep easy, knowing your choices are healthy for the environment in your own home, as well as around the world.

According to the US Department of Labor, the average employed 25-54 year old sleeps 7.6 hours a day - which comes out to 2,774 hours each year, and far over 200,000 hours in the average lifetime.

With all these hours dedicated to sleeping, the need for a healthy sleep is imperative, and today's consumers go to great lengths by investing in noise machines, sleeping pills, strict routines and more to get a better night's sleep.

Unfortunately, aside from comfort, most people don't consider what they're sleeping on, and the fact is, most of the bedding available in stores is produced using harsh dyes and chemicals, so as we sleep, our bodies are exposed to toxins we may have never considered.

Cotton has long been considered the "world's dirtiest crop" due to its heavy use of insecticides, the most hazardous pesticide to human and animal health, and cotton linens can be covered in chemicals-even formaldehyde-to keep them wrinkle-free and looking new.

"Anything wrinkle-free has added polyester or is coated with chemical resin," says Karyn Barsa, CEO of Coyuchi.

"Also, skip super high thread counts: The thin threads may be strengthened with - you guessed it - more chemicals."

"Organic cotton, by contrast, simply softens over time, and generally lasts longer."

For more information: http://www.coyuchi.com/