The Naturepedic Organic Cotton Quilted Deluxe Crib Mattress is a non-waterproof organic crib and toddler mattress that is softer than their other mattresses, making it best suited for infants over 12 months old. This mattress features 252 coils with 9-gauge edge support and seemingly 15.5 gauge coils for the interior, given comments made by Naturepedic online but not on their own product listing.
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Naturepedic Organic Cotton Quilted Deluxe Crib Mattress
Highlights: Best suited for infants over 12 months old. Features square corners for a snug fit in standard size cribs. Optional organic wool filling will wick away moisture and help your toddler regulate their body temperature and feel more comfortable.
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Naturepedic Organic Cotton Quilted Deluxe Crib Mattress at a glance:
| Country of Origin: | USA |
| Materials: | Innerspring coils, organic cotton and optional wool filling |
| Certifications: | GOTS Greenguard Gold UL-certified Formaldehyde-free |
Note: It seems that Naturepedic is no longer offering this product, though you may be able to find it in other stores. Barring this one, we’re big fans of their Classic Crib mattress.
Overview
It weighs around 22-25 pounds, making it quite a bit heavier than the Naturepedic Lightweight Crib Mattress, but around the same weight as the Classic Crib Mattress.
The optional organic wool filling on this model is a nice touch that will wick away moisture and help your toddler regulate their body temperature and feel more comfortable. Wool also helps slow down heart rate and promotes a more restful sleep, plus it’s naturally fire retardant and antimicrobial.
This mattress is free from latex and soy, is GOTS and Greenguard Gold certified, and features square corners for a snug fit in standard size cribs. The mattress measures approximately 27 1/4″ x 51 5/8″ x 6″, fits toddler beds and day beds, and is a great fit for one of my top picks for an eco-friendly non-toxic crib, the DaVinci Kalani Crib.
It’s worth noting, though, that the standard size Naturepedic crib mattresses tend to run a little too big for Pottery Barn cribs, including the Kendall (a Leaf Score recommended product). Naturepedic offer a special crib mattress designed to fit Pottery Barn cribs (the MC34Y), so check with your local Pottery Barn if you’d like to order one of these.
Also, because Naturepedic crib mattresses have firm edge support (which you want!), they aren’t a good fit for certain cribs, such as the Baby Appleseed Chelmsford crib. The edge supports mean the mattress won’t squeeze into the lower setting of this type of crib, meaning the crib and mattress combination will only work on the top setting.
All Naturepedic crib mattresses come with a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee provided the product was purchased directly from Naturepedic. You have to pay all shipping costs (including outbound costs associated with any promotions), however. Naturepedic have a 10 year warranty against manufacturing defects, with full coverage in the first 5 years and pro-rated coverage thereafter.
Naturepedic vs. OMI, My Green Mattress, Soaring Heart, and Savvy Rest
This quilted mattress from Naturepedic is the only one in its range that isn’t covered with a waterproof polyethylene cover. The 2-in-1 infant/toddler quilted mattress does have a waterproof cover on the firmer side, so if you’re looking for a totally plastic free natural crib mattress from Naturepedic, the quilted single-sided model is for you.
Wool and fire resistance
If you’d rather not have wool in your crib mattress, Naturepedic offer some of the best wool-free options and are transparent about using a mixture of baking soda, silica, and eucalyptus as a natural flame retardant instead of wool. Their quilted mattresses do use wool, however, although there is an option to go wool-free.
OMI, Soaring Heart, Sleep Lily, and Savvy Rest also include wool in their crib mattresses. Lullaby Earth offer a decent wool-free crib mattress (View Price on Amazon) made with recycled polyester and polyethylene, but it’s not entirely clear how Lullaby Earth meet fire safety standards.
Cost
In general, Naturepedic can be considered an excellent mid-price option for an eco-friendly and non-toxic crib mattress. Naturepedic’s Organic Cotton Classic and Lightweight Classic both cost between $255 and $299 and boast a waterproof cover, unlike My Green Mattress, where you’d have to buy separate covers or puddle pads. My Green Mattress are still my top pick overall, however, priced at $289, with a heap of certifications.
Naturepedic’s 2-in-1 Ultra Quilted Deluxe mattress is a little pricier at $399, but it’s latex-free and dual-sided. SleepLily’s innerspring mattress costs $360, making it second only to OMI for most expensive innerspring crib mattress. Soaring Heart mattresses cost around $420, with Savvy Rest priced at $399 with similar certifications and specifications as a latex, wool, and cotton mattress.
As mentioned, OMI are the most expensive of my Leaf Score recommended crib mattresses at $599 for both their latex and innerspring models. SleepLily’s latex crib mattress costs $438, with slightly better certifications than Soaring Heart and Savvy Rest, but not quite so certified as OMI.
NaturalMat’s Quilted Coco Mat Crib Mattress retails for $424.00, and they also offer a Quilted Latex Mat for $574.00 and a Quilted Mohair Mat for $497.00, made with similar standards and construction but with latex or mohair for the core instead of coconut coir. I’m not convinced as to just how non-toxic and eco-friendly these NaturalMat mattresses are, however, given the lack of transparency over the materials and treatments used to make these mattresses and the fact that they are imported and therefore likely to be subjected to fumigation upon arrival in the US.
The Nook Pebble Pure Crib Mattress retails for around $395 and is made with organic coconut coir blended with natural latex foam and covered in organic wool. However, I’m not all that confident in the non-toxic, eco-credentials of this mattress either, given the lack of transparency over the cover materials including an organic cotton ‘non-toxic poly blend’.
And, finally, Lullaby Earth offer a much less expensive version of the Naturepedic lightweight mattress for $169-$259 made with recycled polyester and polyethylene. While this one has some decent eco-certifications, if you’re going to spend over $200 on a crib mattress, I’d strongly suggest going with My Green Mattress or Naturepedic instead. If it’s a lightweight mattress you’re after, the Naturepedic Lightweight is arguably your best option.
Non-toxic and eco-friendly credentials
OMI crib mattresses carry more certifications than Savvy Rest, Soaring Heart, Naturepedic, and every other mattress on the market. Their adult mattresses have been rigorously tested and found to be durable and high-performance, but they are quite a bit more expensive than most other crib mattresses.
Naturepedic boast only Greenguard Gold, GOTS, and UL-certified formaldehyde free, but these mattresses don’t include latex, so GOLS doesn’t apply. It would be nice to see a Made Safe certification or other more robust EcoInstitut certification, given the polyethylene component and natural flame retardants used in these mattresses.
If you are concerned about multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) or simply want a high-quality crib mattress free from toxic chemicals and made with care from sustainably and humanely sourced materials, OMI are the top choice.
Weight
Naturepedic’s mattresses also fall squarely in the middle in terms of weight. Both of the Sleep Lily crib mattresses are very heavy, weighing in at 33 and 35 lbs for the innerspring and latex mattresses respectively. In comparison, the My Green Mattress latex, coconut coir, wool, cotton, and innerspring mattress weighs just 15 lbs and 6 ounces, while the Naturepedic models weigh between 21 and 25 lbs for the cotton and innerspring models and just 8 lbs for their Lightweight mattress. Nook’s Pebble Pure also weighs in at 25 lbs, but no weight details are available for OMI, Soaring Heart, Lullaby Earth, or Savvy Rest unfortunately, nor for NaturalMat.
Size
There are some size differences between these mattresses that are worth bearing in mind if you have already bought a crib. The Soaring Heart mattress, for instance, is a little bigger than Naturepedic’s mattresses and at the top end of the standard size measurements for a crib mattress (although it’s also thinner at just 3.5 inches compared to most crib mattresses measuring 5 or 6 inches. Savvy Rest’s crib mattress is also slightly longer and wider than Naturepedic’s crib mattresses, while OMI’s mattresses are as long but a little wider. For comparison, here are the mattresses listed from largest to smallest in terms of width and length:
- Nook Pebble Pure – 28” x 53” x 4”
- Soaring Heart – 28 5/8” x 52 3/8” x 3 ½ “
- Sleep Lily – 28” x 52” x 6”
- OMI – 28” x 52” x 6”
- NaturalMat – 28” x 52” x 6”
- Savvy Baby – 27 ½” x 52” x 6
- My Green Mattress – 27 1/4″ x 52″ x 6″
- Naturepedic – 27 ¼” x 51 5/8” x 6”
- Lullaby Earth – 27 ¼” x 51 5/8” x 6”
CSR
In terms of charitable giving and corporate social responsibility, Savvy Rest have the most robust charitable giving program and B Corp status (none of the other mattress companies have this currently).
Soaring Heart are also socially engaged, with quarterly Charity Pillow Builds and a goal is to direct 1% of annual gross sales to charitable causes. Soaring Heart also created a Scholarship at Seattle’s Pride Foundation to fund students working in the area of mental health and compassionate care.
OMI don’t appear to have any charitable arm to their businesses. Naturepedic are members of 1% for the Planet, at least, although they don’t seem to do much else. My Green Mattress offers a discount to members of the U.S. military, but there’s no indication that the company has a charitable arm other a donation/refund program if you return your mattress after your 100 night comfort trial.
Sleep Lily, Nook, and NaturalMat don’t mention any charitable side to their business and seem focused purely on their products.
Warranty and refunds
All Naturepedic crib mattresses come with a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee provided the product was purchased directly from Naturepedic. You have to pay all shipping costs (including outbound costs associated with any promotions), however. Naturepedic have a 10 year warranty against manufacturing defects, with full coverage in the first 5 years and pro-rated coverage thereafter.
OMI offer a more generous 90-day sleep trial and a 20-year limited warranty on all mattresses, and My Green Mattress has a 100-night sleep trial. If you don’t want to keep the mattress after your 100 nights, My Green Mattress will work with you to donate it to a local charity and then refund your money.
Savvy Rest are rather miserly in terms of their return policy. Unlike most other companies, they just don’t do returns, claiming that to do so would necessitate them spraying their products with toxic chemicals.
Overall, OMI is pretty much unbeatable for a non-toxic, eco-friendly, high-quality, latex or innerspring crib mattress, but my top pick is My Green Mattress because they make a fantastic eco-friendly and non-toxic crib mattress with great certifications for less than half the price of OMI’s mattresses. For an innerspring mattress, however, Naturepedic are a great option, especially if you’re looking for a dual-sided mattress to last your baby through their toddler years too.