Vacuums & Mattresses

So recently I have been going through our house cleaning our mattresses. I heard a long time ago that a mattress can actually gain weight. The mattresses on our beds literally weigh more then they did when we bought them. The adverage pillow increases two pounds from the build up of "micro-toxins". If a pillow gains two pounds I can't imagine what a mattress gains. What are mico-toxins? I am so glad you asked. Micro-toxins are dead skin cells, dust mites, and their waste, mold spores, pollen, and even pet dander. We’ve been breathing dust, dander, and dust mites that build up in and on our mattress, and that’s bad if you’ve got allergies. So to clean them off first I remove our mattress covers. These should be washed about once a week. Then I very thoroughly go over the mattress with the attachments of our vacuum. Since Andrew sometimes has problems with allergies I try to vacuum more frequently and we all have mattress covers. And inorder to have a very clean bed I also wash our pillows in hot water. It takes a long time to dry them, but hey who wants to breathe in dust mites all night?

Happy Cleaning :)