Proper care can truly extend the life of your mattress.
No matter how well you clean your home, you may be overlooking one important area that impacts your indoor air quality: your mattress. Every night, our bodies make about half a liter of sweat and shed nearly a gram of skin. Your mattress can easily become home to fungal spores, bacteria, and dust mites that feed on your shed skin. The average mattress is home to about 2 million dust mites. It’s no surprise that without regular mattress cleaning, your mattress can be the dirtiest thing in your entire house. With that being said, you should make mattress care an important part of your cleaning schedule.
How Can I Take Care of My Mattress?
Cleaning a mattress thoroughly takes some time but it can help protect your health. Here’s what mattress cleaning traditionally involves:
- Vacuuming: The first step is vacuuming the mattress to remove skin cells, dust, and debris that accumulates over time.
- Deodorizing: Your mattress likely has a good amount of sweat and dust in it. So, deodorizing the mattress neutralizes any odors it may have developed.
- Cleaning and stain removal: Stain removal is one of the more time-consuming aspects of mattress cleaning but it keeps your mattress fresh and avoids giving bacteria and mites something to eat.
- Steam cleaning: If you have allergies or tough mattress stains, professional steam cleaning is an extra step that can protect your health.
How Often Should I Clean?
Most of us either turn a blind eye to whatever is living in our mattress or fail to give it any thought at all after we remove our sheets and put them in the washing machine. The bedding itself should be washed at least once a week to minimize the amount of oil, sweat, skin, and fluids that get into your mattress, while your pillows should be cleaned at least twice a year. When it comes to the mattress itself, aim for a minimum of twice a year or once every season.
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