inBed Organics: Inexpensive Locally-Made Organic Mattresses

While at The Green Living Show Vancouver this past weekend, I noticed inbed Organics and I just had to stop by and chat with them. I wasn't familiar with this company, though they are located on west 2nd ave in Vancouver. You may remember my post about Local Organic Futons So, to find another local company who carries organic mattresses/ futons was very exciting.

More exciting was how inexpensive their mattresses are, around $1800 for a Queen size natural latex mattress, which is cheaper than other local companies that I have found. They also make their mattress on location.

A few things inBed Organics carries is organic wool, cotton and latex pillows, organic cotton and wool mattress covers, bedsheets, organic duvet covers and wool comforters.

Their showroom is by appointment only, but will be able to buy online (shortly it says). I like that their site products are also organized by material and by mattress size, so is easier to find what I'm looking for.

Adventuring Down Main st: Twigg & Hottie

I love finding stores that sell local designer's clothes/jewelry. Twigg & Hottie at 3671 Main Street Offers one-of-a-kind/small run designs with prices that reflect that. While a lot of their clothes are priced a bit in the highend, there are lots of their clothes that are quite reasonable. Shirts upwards of $60-80, and a few hats for $45-50.

Very small, busy store. When I was in there, lots of people were flowing in and out of the store. I did look at a few tags, for what fabrics the designers were using, many were recycled fabrics or some just said "made from eco-friendly materials", but didn't specify if it was recycled or organic or what. I may have just missed another tag, but the ones that were easily accessible didn't say.

Finally! Organic, Sustainable & Local Clothing!

I have yet to find a place in Vancouver that has a better selection of organic and sustainable clothing from a variety of brands than Organix in granville island.

Am so glad they finally moved to a larger space in Granville island, now located at 1524 Duranleau Street- with lots more products. (I just picked up a nice recycled Wool Jacket for winter by Grace & Cello, a no-sweat shop canadian company based out of Montreal-- am SUPER pleased with)

Always a great experience walking into Organix: friendly, helpful atmosphere.

Large selection of Sustainable/Organic fabrics: Organic Cotton, Soy, Hemp, Bamboo clothing (my fav!) and beautiful Bamboo Towels by Shoo-Foo!- extremely soft, and absorbent- (Can use one towel for two people!) I've picked up two bath towels, and a few hand and face clothes and been very happy with. I purchased the undyed natural coloured towels, but they also have black tea dyed, a dark blue, and light green coloured version.

Devil May Wear: Very Cool Local Clothing

Devil May Wear is slightly hidden off of main street amongst lots of the trendy main street clothing stores. They have a sign sitting out, so make sure to look for it when passing by, and definitely go inside!

They have an online shop on etsy.com, (a site for handmade products) so if you can't make it to their store at 198 E21st ave, some of their products are available there.

Their store is very cute and small, packed full of local designers clothing and some sustainable fabrics. They have some very soft bamboo tights in multiple colours, which I've been eyeing up but haven't yet bought. I was really amazed by the amount of clothing there was in that small of a space, but it was all well layed out so was easy to navigate, however doesn't take much for the store to be pretty crowded.