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Green Tea is just a branding name lol.
It is literally just 'Green Tea is associated with calm serenity, so is this mattress!'
As for fiber glass?
Memory foam = polyurethane != fiber glass.
I... guess its possible they'd throw fiberglass into the giant polyurethane mixing vats that make memory foam... but I don't see how that would cut costs, or even chemically work to make a good foam mattress.
My friend used to work for a boutique mattress store almost two decades ago, and when he was bored he did a bunch of research and claimed that in the early days of foam mattresses... very, very rarely, the foam would actually off-gas enough toxic chemicals that it actually may have killed a few people.
I can't actually verify that that is true.
The modern medical consensus seems to be that memory foam off gassing is basically only capable of causing minor headaches, nausea, and rashes in a extremely sensitive people and some children, but this is fairly easily offset by having decent airflow in the room the foam mattress is in for about a week.
Most people just think it smells kinda weird for a few days, and then its fine.
I'm gonna start selling Chamomile mattresses with Absolutely Zero Asbestos