Walt Bader - Biography

"Many popular mattresses are a chemical nightmare, constructed of polyurethane foam, which is made from a petrochemical base combined with a chemical potpourri of stabilizers, catalysts, surfactants, fire retardants, antimicrobial additives and colorants. These chemicals are associated with environmental problems as well as human health hazards such as chronic bronchitits, impaired lung function, breathlessness, nausea, vomiting and allergic reactions. Some are potential carcinogens and reproductive toxins. Sleep Safe details how beds may be one of the single-most overlooked causes of people’s health problems in the world today. Author Walt Bader shows the reader how to shop for a safe and healthy organic mattress, and provides tips for eliminating toxins in all parts of your bedroom--from the walls to the floors to the closets."

— Sleep Safe in a Toxic World by Walter Bader

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Biography

Having been chemically sensitive his whole life, Walt Bader is intimately aware of the chemical challenges that bombard us on a daily basis. His continual quest has been to find safer alternatives for the everyday products that he uses, and by so doing, to avoid the health risks associated with products that are routinely made with chemicals.

In 1995, he decided to share these products with others and co-founded Lifekind®, Inc., a national catalog company specializing in organic and Naturally Safer® product alternatives. Several years later, Walt and his partner created the first organic mattress Eco-Factory™ — Organic Mattresses, Inc. — to produce their mattresses and other top-of-the-bed products.

Walt did his undergraduate work in business and his graduate studies in law, and although they gave him the tools he needed to become a successful entrepreneur, he had to learn how to survive in this toxic world with a great deal of help from other individuals and publications.

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