Sustainable bedding brands can’t guarantee your sleep (no one can) but they sure can keep any eco-woes out of your dreams. And especially for those who get eco-guilt, that can go a long way to ensuring some shuteye.
Which is ‘kind of’ important considering how critical sleep is for our health and ability to function.
Losing only 1-2 hours per night can affect humans the same as if they hadn’t slept in a day or two. We need to pay attention to what we’re sleeping in.
To that end, we’ve researched, tested, and slept in a range of bedding made by brands that not only ensure responsible materials are used but also ethical labor and low-impact dyes.
We’ll also soon be using our new Brand Rating System to assess brands against a range of eco-related criteria, like chemical use and transparency. You can learn about its considerations here.
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Sustainable Bedding Sets & Sheets We Love
PlushBeds’ linens are as luxurious as they are eco-friendly. They combine the best of both and we’re happy to say we’ve had many deep sleeps in them.
Naturepedic is what you get when you combine organic fabrics with softness that will help you sleep like a child.
Just like guacamole makes the meal, Avocado makes your bed with a full spread of fabric, including sustainable organic cotton sheets.
Index: Eco-Friendly Bedding Sets & Sheets
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Plushbeds
About PlushBeds
Price Range: $149—$627
PlushBeds equals “pure eco-friendly luxurious comfort at an unparalleled price point”.
Don’t take their word for it, take our word and read our in-depth PlushBeds review.
Perusing their mattresses, pillows, and sheets, we can’t argue with that claim. Offering factory-direct means more transparency and some of the most affordable eco-friendly bedding in a variety of fabrics, colors, and sizes (twin, full, queen, king, Cali king, and oversized queen).
All of their luxurious bedding is impressive, but we’re extra big fans of the Vegan Silk Sheets. Instead of ethically concerning silk, they mimic the coveted silky texture using only plant-based TENCEL™. If you’re skeptical that TENCEL™ can feel as good as real silk, we were, too. Suffice it to say we were more than pleased the first time we touched them!
PlushBeds’ Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
You’ll find GOTS-certified organic cotton bedding as well as TENCEL™ or linen. You can also get TENCEL™ sheets, microfiber sheets, or those made of bamboo rayon fabric, though we don’t know much about the processing behind these latter materials.
Their quilt comforter is made from cruelty free Eco-Wool®.
Supply chain & labor practices:
PlushBeds owns a GOLS and GOTS-certified factory in California that makes all their organic mattresses, sheets, and organic pillows—meaning sustainable bedding made in the USA. When it comes to sourcing, they try to meet and establish personal relationships with their farmers.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
PlushBeds works with TerraPass Carbon Neutral to calculate the emissions of running their website and offset this footprint.
The brand is also a Green America Certified Business and member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council, working to promote sustainable practices in the industry.
Community & charitable giving:
The PlushBeds Green Scholarships program provides a $1,000 scholarship to a college student seeking an “eco-degree” (AKA environment-related major).
Naturepedic
About Naturepedic
Price Range: $49—$179
Naturepedic was founded by an environmental engineer who wanted to design a chemical-free mattress for his first grandchild. While they specialize in mattresses and toppers, Naturepedic also has sheets, pillowcases, pillow protectors, and a non-toxic crib bedding set.
If you’re investing in one of their top-tier mattresses, don’t forget the Organic Waterproof Mattress Protector to keep is safe and in excellent condition for longer.
Naturepedic’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Keeping up with the best organic mattress protectors out there, Naturepedic uses OCS100-certified organic cotton, organic wool, and organic latex (for the mattresses and toppers only). Naturepedic offers PETA-approved vegan options as well.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Naturepedic is family-owned and prioritizes working with Amish craftspeople and other US artisans. Their mattresses, pillows, toppers, foundationsm and dog beds are made in the USA, with select other options being manufactured in regularly inspected GOTS-certified factories in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India.
Their vendors have an impressive collection of certifications (including GOTS, GOLS, and FSC).
Carbon commitments & green practices:
In addition to sustainable bedding fabrics, they use FSC certified or recycled paper tags, with their cardboard boxes being partially recycled.
They are also a member of Green America and are GreenGuard Gold and MADESAFE-certified, meaning that they have low chemical emissions and have several programs in place to reduce production impact.
Nest Bedding
About Nest Bedding
Price Range: $24—$499
We only want the best for our nest, so why not listen to the over 25,000 5-star reviews calling Nest Bedding exactly that?
Nest began as one of the first bed-in-a-box companies, let alone a sustainably-minded one. From there, they curated a complete collection of chemical-free bedding that includes pillows, protectors, comforters, blankets, duvet covers, sheets, and sustainable kid’s bedding.
For an all-season good night’s sleep, you can’t go wrong with the Washable Wool Comforter. Made of ethically sourced wool encased in an ultra-soft, natural colored organic cotton cover, this all-season comforter regulates temperature so well that you’ll find it on our own bed just about all year round.
Nest Bedding’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Choose between 100% Fair Trade and GOTS-certified organic cotton or OEKO-TEX certified bamboo bedding.
If you’re vegan, note a few products contain wool or mulberry silk, but if you like the feel of ethical silk sheets but prefer your covers to be cruelty-free, choose those made of eucalyptus-derived TENCEL™ Lyocell.
Their mattresses feature responsible materials like OEKO-TEX Dunlop latex, CertiPUR-US® non-toxic memory foam, and non-chemical silicon fire retardant—making them both GOTS, GOLS, and UL GREENGUARD Gold-certified.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Nest Bedding’s mattresses are made in the USA, specifically Phoenix, Arizona. Other products are “lovingly gathered” worldwide, through fair, conscious channels, like their sustainability tapped natural latex and USA-grown organic cotton.
Their factory participates in annual, voluntary SMETA audits. Per their last audit, there were only minor infractions that are being resolved.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Because they’re sure you’ll love their long-lasting mattresses, they offer a 365-night trial and free exchanges and returns. Rather than plastic bags as product protectors, Nest uses cotton bags.
Avocado
About Avocado
Price Range: $49—$829
Avocado is short for Avocado Green Mattress, which should clue you in as to what their main mission involves.
But apart from their over-qualified appearance on our sustainable mattresses guide, they offer everything that goes on or beneath it: from bed frames to sustainable linens. Their bedding options includes 400 or 600 thread count adult sheets, crib sheets, duvets (covers and inserts), and blankets.
If you’re a regular reader, you know us well enough by know to know we’re pretty hemp-phatic about the benefits of hemp fabric, so we can’t help but recommend the Organic Hemp Sheets—and not just because they’ll get softer with every wash!
Avocado’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
For organic sheet or a duvet cover, choose between organic linen, organic cotton, and organic hemp—all 100% in content and GOTS-certified. Two products are not vegan friendly: their Mini Silk Pillowcase made from 100% Mulberry silk and a Peruvian alpaca wool duvet insert.
Some materials, like their hemp, are MADE SAFE certified, too.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Avocado is a Certified B Corp. Products are made in-house in a GOTS-certified California facility that provides fair wages, healthcare, vacation, and other benefits.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
By offsetting through the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, Avocado is Climate Neutral and a member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council.
MagicLinen
About MagicLinen
Price Range: $34—$371
If the name didn’t clue you in, MagicLinen is a slumber specialist in linen bedding. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, they offer a selection of clothing and homewares like curtains, linen sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases, blankets, and sets. The delightful earthy solid colors will light up your bedroom—and help you sleep cool when the lights go out.
When given the chance to try some ourselves, we (obviously) went with Matcha Green for Linen Duvet Set, and just as hoped, it brightens up the bedroom so nicely while lightening up the feel of our covers (and their impact!).
MagicLinen’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
They join the ranks of other linen clothing brands, by using refined…you guessed it, organic linen in their sustainable linen sheets and bedding. Specifically, OEKO-TEX-certified European linen that naturally hypoallergenic.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Lithuania is the world’s linen hub and the ancient plant plays an important part in the country’s culture and economy.
MagicLinen helps preserve these traditions and manufactures ethically under the approval of third-party auditors.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Since all raw materials are sourced from Lithuania and surrounding countries, they minimize shipping. Your linen bedding will come in biodegradable cornstarch PBAT mailers.
Products are made in-season only to prevent overstock waste and their in-house manufacturing means they have complete control over waste, which is used to create smaller items like tea towels and oven mitts.
Community & charitable giving:
MagicLinen donated products, volunteer time, and funds to various organizations and social initiatives.
Antipodean Home
About Antipodean Home
Price Range: $189—$712
Antipodean Home has “The Right Fluff” for your bedroom via a simple but essential range of sheet sets, duvet covers, duvet inserts, and a bundle of all three.
We tested out the Organic Sheet Set and the Regenerative Wool Duvet Insert ourselves, which they say can improve natural sleep cycles by up to 25% thanks to the temperature regulation, moisture-wicking properties, and hypoallergenic materials. Now we’re not sleep experts so we can’t say for sure if our recently improved sleeping patterns are a result of this or not, but we do feel like we’ve been sleeping more soundly and waking up less since putting these on our bed.
It might be because we started testing ours right as we rolled into our first summer heatwave—in a house without central AC and only a small, portable AC unit—and these highly breathable materials have done an excellent job keeping us cooler and more comfortable.
The slightly heavier sateen weave came out of the durable and heavy-duty storage tote feeling a little stiff and starchy at first, but by washing it with the wool dryer balls that came complimentary with the set, it immediately softened up and gradually continued to do so as we slept on it over time.
Plus, we have a fairly deep-fit PlushBeds mattress and had no trouble easily stretching these over to fit the whole frame, since they’re rated for mattresses up to 16” deep.
Antipodean Home’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Their bedding features organic and regenerative materials, including ZQ-certified Regenerative (ZQRZ) merino wool—sourced from hand-selected fleeces to be the highest quality fibers arounds—RWS-certified wool, and GOTS-certified organic cotton. Even the buttons of their duvet covers are all-natural and made from corozo nuts.
OEKO-TEX certification ensures you won’t be sleeping in any nightmarish materials like formaldehyde and heavy metals.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Antipodean Home sources wool primarily from the New Zealand Merino Company (NZM), whose 3.7 million acres are bringing regenerative agriculture to the industry on a mass scale. All wool is fully traceable to the farm of origin, who comply with the highest animal welfare standards.
The organic cotton is sourced from regenerative, small-scale farms in India.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Wool fibers are processed in a New Zealand facility accredited with New Zealand National Farm Assurance (NZFA), which, in addition to requiring full farm traceability and animal welfare, has biosecurity and sustainability standards, like cleaning the fibers with the lowest level of fiber residue.
Having joined Textile Exchange’s Climate+ goal, the brand is using SBTi to measure and reduce scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions in this processing facility by 46%
The ZQRX program also uses machine learning and other tools to further reduce the impact of sheep farmers.
Pact
About Pact
Price Range: $30—$210
Pact believes “style & sustainability can coexist” and they’re using organic and Fair Trade-certified cotton to prove it.
In addition to basics, activewear, and pajamas, they also sell home textiles like eco-friendly towels and bedding. In sizes twin to California king, ethical bedding by Pact includes bed sheets, duvet covers, shams, pillowcases, and crib bedding sets.
Gor the real hotel at home treatment, be sure to invest in their Organic Room Service Sateen Sheets. Available in a selection of gorgeous earthy colors, these 100% organic cotton sheets are “buttery soft to the touch and look undeniably luxe”.
Pact’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
Snuggle in GOTS-certified organic cotton while dreaming of how the sateen and jersey sheets save at least 400 gallons of water during their production. It comes in a reusable bag that you can use for storage or laundry-day.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Dream happy knowing the cotton bedding is produced in Fair Trade factories in India. Pact’s Fair Trade program also goes back to the organic cotton farmer, providing them with finances to help end poverty in their communities.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Pact products come in recycled and compostable packaging via carbon offset shipping.
Ethical Bedding
About Ethical Bedding
Price Range: $37—$776
Ethical Bedding…on the nose, right?
And creating some of the best ethical bedding sets is what they stick to. Their vast selection includes bed sheets, pillowcases, duvets and covers, blankets, mattress protectors and natural mattress toppers, and money-saving bundles.
All are woven from dermatologist-recommended long-staple fibers that are zero static, temperature regulating, and most importantly, “soft on your bed, soft on the earth…”.
Ethical Bedding’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
This brand believes the softest sustainable bed sheets are made of 100% eucalyptus. It’s grown in “non-farmable” biodiverse forests without harmful chemicals, uses 95% less water than cotton, and bears FSC and OEKO-TEX certifications.
If you’re looking for the recycled bedding, their BottleBounce Snuggle Blanket filling combines 50 recycled plastic bottles with bamboo.
Supply chain & labor practices:
They’re both the only Certified B Corp and Vegan Society-approved bedding company in the world. Paying more than a living wage to their family-owned manufacturing partners, they ensure fair conditions through third-party accreditations and personal visits. Total supply chain transparency is a must for them.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Eucalyptus is transformed into sheets using a closed-loop system and one non-toxic chemical—Amine Oxide—99.9% of which gets recycled. They received the Environmental Award from the EU for this process.
Each piece comes with a lifetime warranty, and if it wears out, it’s biodegradable (AKA zero-waste). Their minimal packaging is recycled and recyclable and they offset “every atom of carbon”.
Boll & Branch
About Boll & Branch
Price Range: $89—$757
“Change your sheets, change the world.” Scott and Missy Tannen, the co-founders of Boll & Branch started their company with a heightened sense of responsibility following the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh.
Voila! One of the best bedding brands was born.
They also have sustainable sheet sets, pillowcases, duvets, fair trade blankets, and baby bedding—in many sizes and thread counts. If you’re dreaming about quilt bedding, check out their “meticulously stitched” Reserve Lattice Quilt Set.
Boll & Branch’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Materials:
All components are made of 100% organic cotton, (almost) 100% of the time. The only exception is the filling in their comforters, which consists of either RDS-certified American down feathers or partially-recycled PrimaLoft polyfill.
Supply chain & labor practices:
They were the first 100% organic linen manufacturer to become Fair Trade-certified. Their organic cotton travels from India and Turkey (where it’s farmed) to Portugal (where it’s woven) to the USA, where the bedding is made.
Carbon commitments & green practices:
Shipping by boat rather than air reduces carbon emissions and their products are made using responsible water management. Everything is packaged in recycled paper.
Jenny is a UK-based sustainability writer and tea-drinker extraordinaire who has a Masters in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. Her travels have taken her to organic permaculture farms in the UK and Nepal but you’ll mostly find her working on the veg patch with a garden fork in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. Jenny writes for ethical brands and purpose-powered publications on a broad range of sustainable living and conscious consumerism topics. She is passionate about organic and regenerative farming, nature reconnection, and the small things we can do each day to better care for our planet.
I’m surprised I’m not seeing brands like avacado and coyuchi, any reason for that?
Hi Samantha, no reason – we just feature Coyuchi and Avocado on a ton of other articles so wanted to share the love around a little more with this list given there are so many great sustainable bedding brands out there.
Thanks for the great information on brands and important facts regarding business practices that support being eco-friendly and reducing emissions etc. Awareness is the key!