Best Organic Mattresses (2026): Certified Nontoxic, Natural Sleep

There’s a Lot of greenwashing around the term “organic” these days. It often seems more like a reason to raise prices than anything else, which is why it helps to be selective about where you pony up for organic things. I’ve taken to buying organic by exposure—you’re going to sleep on a bed every night for years, and that’s a lot of exposure, so to my mind, it makes sense to invest in an organic mattress. The good news is that most of these aren’t much more expensive than a conventional mattress.

Conventional mattresses often have questionable materials in them. Everything from polyurethane foams with formaldehyde and TCEP (a flame retardant) to phthalates can end up in nonorganic mattresses, off-gassing into your home. How much these substances affect you isn’t scientifically settled, but it’s not hard to avoid them altogether with a mattress made from natural, organic materials. Most organic mattresses are made of a combination of wool, natural latex, and cotton. The construction is similar to conventional mattresses but without the chemicals.

I’ve been testing and sleeping on organic mattresses for seven years now, and these are my favorites out of the dozens I’ve tested. All of the prices below are for queen-size models unless specified.

Updated August 2026: We've revamped this guide to narrow down our picks and added some organic toppers and sheets you can grab to round out your organic bed.

To help you make sense of the often bewildering world of organic mattresses, here are some terms and certifications to know.

The big name in organic certifications, and organic cotton certification specifically, is the Global Organic Textile Standard , generally abbreviated as GOTS. It looks not just at how the cotton is grown and processed but also at ecological and social criteria , and it uses third parties to independently verify that standards are being met. If you’re curious, you can read version six of the standard online .

Most of the mattress brands here have GOTS certification. Our top pick, Avocado Green Mattress; our favorite kids’ mattress, My Green Mattress; and the Birch Natural are all GOTS certified. Awara is not. But cotton is not the end of the story for these mattresses, which usually also contain latex, which has its own certifications like GOTS. The latex certification is called Global Organic Latex Standard and is more or less the same as GOTS, but for latex instead of cotton. Again, the goal of GOLS is to look at the entire supply chain, not just the finished product. Avocado and My Green Mattress are the only ones in this guide certified by GOLS and GOTS.

While we especially like the big-picture approach of GOTS and GOLS, there are other certifications that test the finished product, and in some ways some of these are more revealing. The best one, Made Safe , certifies that mattresses (or other products) are not made with any known cancer-causing or hormone-disrupting chemicals. The Made Safe standard is one of the strictest in the industry.