Jade yoga mat is most environmentally-friendly for the world. And it is made with natural rubber rather than other synthetic rubbers. Jade mats are made in the U.S. with U.S. environmental and labor laws. Jade Yoga will plant one tree when every mat sold for the future.
Surely, as the popular premium mat, Jade yoga mat offers a perfect balance of traction and cushion. It also offers slip-resistance. So you no longer have to worry about slipping even if it gets wet. The cushion is nice, especially if you attend classes at a studio with a hard floor surface. It is heavier than the average mat, so you’ll feel the difference rolling it up and carrying it around.
The natural rubber smell will dissipate over time. The best way to accelerate this process is to air the mat out. Because natural rubber has natural variations in smell, and everyone has different sensitivities, the amount of time it takes for the smell to dissipate varies.
Wash the yoga mat, you can hold water, I recommend simple wiping the surface of your mat. If your mat needs a deep cleaning, you can wash your mat by soaking in a bathtub, hosing it off or in a front loading washing machine on gentle. I recommend a mild soap. Do not use oils and harsh abrasives. The mat should lay flat to dry after cleaning.
About Jade Yoga
In a way, Jade Yoga began long before launching its first purple and blue Harmony yoga mats in 2002. Jade Yoga grew out of Jade Industries, a company that had been making non-slip natural rubber rug pads for area rugs since the early 1970s. For many years, Jade Industries also sold rug pads to select yogis in the area for use as yoga mats. As the story goes, rug mats first attracted the attention of yogis after B.K.S. Iyengar–who was in the U.S. doing a yoga demonstration on an oriental rug–asked a student to remove the rug after slipping repeatedly. Under the rug sat a rug mat, and the first yoga mat was born. Unfortunately, most yoga companies started making mats of cheap, imitation plastic or PVC instead–annoyingly slippery surfaces that were close to useless for many practices. Jade Yoga began in earnest in 2000 after it was approached by a savvy yogi who described the problem with these plastic and PVC mats. As Jade Industries were already making natural rubber rug pads, the company approached the problem from that angle and developed the Harmony, the first natural Rubber yoga mat. Located in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Jade Yoga has a number of products in the pipeline that align with the company’s vision of producing high-quality products in an Earth-friendly way.
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