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Waterproof Mattress Protector to Protect Your Mattress for Life

If you’ve gotten a new mattress recently, of course you want to keep it looking good for many years to come. Regardless of who you’ve gotten the mattress for, though, a waterproof mattress protector is going to help preserve the life of your mattress, as well as keep it from getting soiled, both essential things to long mattress life. A mattress is no small investment, and will probably cost you at least several hundred dollars, so protect that just like you would any other investment.

Important Tips For Cleaning Your Duvet Bedding

Laundering duvet bedding takes a long time, so before you embark on this journey make sure you have some type of entertainment available to you while you wait. Taking your duvet bedding to a laundromat is a sure fire way to make sure there is enough room in the machine, but if you have a large front loading machine at home that will do also. A machine capable of a ten to twelve pound load will work best. It is advisable to launder your duvet bedding semi-annually, but if you shake it out and hang it up to air out every few months you can usually extend the time between washings, depending on the amount of usage it gets.

The Six Great Myths About Bedding

6. Down feathers can cause increased allergy symptoms. While feathers are connected to allergies, it may surprise you that it is actually the dust mites that are to blame for your symptoms. Dust mites feed on things like hair and dead skin cells we leave behind. This means that they also feed on the dander left behind in feathers too. When the mites are done eating they leave behind entrails with a protein in them that causes allergy symptoms when they are inhaled into our bodies.