Can You Show Me Your GOLS Organic Latex Certification?
Yes — you can view our GOLS certificate and the products that use GOLS-certified organic latex. But before you do, it's worth understanding what GOLS actually certifies, and why it shouldn't be the last thing you check.
What GOLS Certifies
The Global Organic Latex Standard (GOLS) certifies organic latex as a material. To achieve GOLS certification, a product must contain more than 95% certified organic raw material sourced from organic rubber plantations certified to USDA NOP or EU organic standards. The standard also sets permissible limits for harmful substances, emission requirements, and polymer and filler percentages. Transaction certificates at every stage of the supply chain ensure traceability from the plantation to the point of sale.
That is meaningful. It tells you the latex material itself has been independently verified as organic.
What GOLS Does Not Certify
GOLS is a material certification. It does not certify a finished mattress as organic.
A brand can hold a GOLS certificate and display it as proof that its mattress is organic. But a GOLS certificate is not tied to how much certified latex was actually used, or in which products. There is no audit connecting that certificate to what a brand ships. A company could source one order of GOLS-certified latex, show you the cert, and build mattresses with unverified materials alongside it — and nothing in the GOLS certification would flag that.
Showing a certificate is not the same as certifying a product.
The Only Way to Verify a Mattress Is Organic
If you want to know whether a finished mattress is certified organic, look for GOTS — the Global Organic Textile Standard — and verify the license number in the public database.
GOTS is the only standard that certifies a completed product as organic. It requires annual third-party audits of the entire supply chain, covers every material in the finished product, and lists certified products publicly by name. If a mattress doesn't have a GOTS finished product certification, no other certificate confirms it is organic.
With that said, here is one of our GOLS scope certificates:
