What Are the Benefits of a Medicott Treatment on Your Mattress Cover and What is It?

Medicott is a series of special treatments designed to make cotton and the various cotton mixes so clear that the ticking used for our mattress cover becomes truly hypoallergenic in terms of dust mites and mold.

The first step in the process is to remove substances which cling to cotton fibers while they are growing, harvested, processed or made into cloth. These may be natural substances or fluff, dirt, etc. or chemicals such as pesticides, dyes, etc. Next comes the second, and most important, part of the treatment. This treatment is similar to that used for cotton bandages. First, the cotton is treated with alkali and then bleached in hydrogen peroxide. This cleanses the cotton of all substances that molds can feed. These are the very molds that dust mites survive on. The process is not designed to kill the dust mite directly, but to change the environment in order to prevent the dust mite from thriving. Even after multiple washes, the microscopic cleansing process used in Medicott retains all the properties that prevent mold from thriving. The material basically denies an ideal environment for the dust mite.

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