3 Benefits of giving your mattress a deep clean

When was the last time your had your mattress cleaned?

It can be a confronting when you’re told that your bed is the dirtiest thing in your room.  Some even conclude that it is dirtier than a toilet seat. Gulp - not something I want to consider. The fact gets significantly harder to swallow when you consider that you spend around 8 hours per night  - or a third of your life time – on your mattress.

You spend a third of your life sleeping in your bed.

I am sure you might be changing the sheets on a regular basis, but unfortunately you cannot prevent some microorganism and particles making their homes in your mattress over the years. While most of these unwanted substances are not directly harmful to you, they can overtime become the cause of health issues including different types of allergies and asthma. Impact here is from the dosage or continuous exposure.

Let’s look at the various types of micro-organisms that might be living in your mattress and how to get rid of them with a mattress deep clean.

Bacteria

The most common microorganism found on a mattress is bacteria. The dampness from the sweat and your dead skin cells are perfect for creating bacteria. Older mattresses are breeding grounds for skin, oral and intestinal/fecal bacteria such as Staphylococcus, Lactobacillus and Streptococcus. These can sink into your mattress and multiply in numbers overtime.

Dust mites

Another common bed companion are dust mites. These mites basically originate where dust gathers. When you lay in bed and shed skin cells, these little dust mites like to eat the decomposed skin cells. If there is a good supply, they like to breed and make lots of new little dust mites. An average mattress can have anything from 100,000 – 2 million dust mites. They can poop twice their body weight every day and it is mostly the poop and cast bodies that cause dust mite allergies and contributes to hay fever, asthma, eczema, dermatitis and various other serious diseases

Fungal spores

Fungal spores are also some of the commonly found bedtime friends. Feather and synthetic bedding are most likely to contain different types of fungi including Penicillium, Alternaria Cladosporium and Aspergillis.  These are known to facilitate the occurrence of different allergies and even asthma.   While substances like dust and fungi originate in our environment, there are also things that the human body produces like sweat and shed skin cells, that also contribute to the dirt that accumulates in our beds. This along with the heat that is generated by your body being trapped in the mattress provides the perfect environment for fungi and bacteria to grow and multiply. 

The bacteria, dust mites and fungal spores can become harmful over time especially if you are allergy prone.  Many people can also develop allergies and asthma triggered by ongoing exposure to these microorganisms. 

Futhermore you can find food crumbs and liquid food spills that provide nutrition for bacteria and other microorganisms as well as lotions, creams, makeup and hair product that can bleed from your skin or hair into a mattress. Finishing agents from a mattress, bed sheets and bed covers can include plasticisers, flame retardants and isocyanates, which can be harmful to your health.

So you can see that you might be rolling around in and inhaling an amalgamation of nasty particles — including allergy-causing dust mites, fungal spores, bacteria, plasticisers, flame retardants, and human skin cells — 8 hours a day, 365 days a year.

It could be time to consider a mattress deep clean.

Benefits of a clean mattress

Besides the fact that it is pure bliss climbing into a freshly made bed, a clean mattress offers a lot of benefits such as:

Increased air quality

A dirty mattress is one of the major contributing factors to polluted air in a room. When you factor in how much sweat, dust, oil, and shed skin there is on your mattress, it’s easy to see why it can pollute the air around it. The room starts to smell a bit and you will be breathing in whatever there is on the dirty mattress. The main benefit to having your mattress cleaned is to instantly increase the air quality in your home.  It removes biological contaminants caused by a dirty mattress and fights odours that may affect your sleep at night.

Reduces the risk of allergies and itching

It’s hard to sleep at night when you’re constantly itching, sneezing or blowing.  Dust mites and fungi can trigger allergies which can disrupt your sleep. Cleaning your mattress reduces the risk of allergy triggers, itching, and prevents certain illnesses by getting rid of harmful bacteria.

Prolonged lifespan of your mattress

A mattress can be a fair size investment.  Cleaning your mattress is essential if you want it to last for years.

Conclusion

We all know the importance of cleaning our homes; it reduces stress levels and fatigue, removes allergens and pollutants, and makes our overall quality of life much better.  The same thing can be said of a clean mattress.  A clean mattress goes a long way in improving your quality of sleep as well as the quality or air that you breathe.

Give you mattress the deep clean it needs by booking a professional mattress cleaning service through SafeSnooze Treatment.

Vacuuming alone or cleaning with water/detergents will not fully remove bacteria, pathogens and dust mites found on the mattress surface. You need mattress sanitisation to ensure that all micro-organisms (which cannot be seen by the naked eye) on the mattress surface are fully destroyed, and odours eliminated, which indicates that the mattress is completely clean and free from bacteria.

The SafeSnooze sanitisation device is one of the most environmentally-friendly, non-chemical, high performance mattress sanitising machines available in the world. It sanitises using a safe, odourless and non-toxic GUVL (Germicidal Ultra Violet Light) guaranteed to destroy harmful microorganisms. Our UVC device has been certified by the Therapeutic Goods Authority (TGA) Australia, as a Grade-1 Medical Device which provides superior mattress cleaning, sanitising and disinfection.

Sleep better, breathe better, live better.

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Contact us today to enjoy the benefits of a clean mattress.

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