DYI finalizing, including googledoc with all recommended Latex vendors with prices

[phoenix]

Hi SeanD,

I contacted Juan Quintero from Select Foam and he confirmed that their toppers are 100% natural talalay from Latex International. I was very specific with my question just to be sure; i asked if their topper was actually “100% natural latex that contained absolutely NO amount of styrene or butadiene” and he confirmed that to be the case. He said that their account representative from LI told them that their N3 topper had an approximate 28 ILD and that is what they put on their site, but he confirmed to me that it’s actually a range of 25-29, and that they probably should update/change their website to indicate that.

I’m glad you confirmed that it was their N3 which is LI’s 100% natural Talalay. Thanks for letting us know.

I obviously don’t have the experience to know how this translates to real-world performance, but those specs seem ‘better’ than LI blended latex from what i can tell. LI Talatech had a 6% loss in ILD in the impact test and a 3.3% height loss in the compression set test according to SleepLikeaBear’s FAQ (though they didn’t state what ILD/density this was for, so i can’t really compare the test results between the two). Do you happen to have the impact and compression set test numbers for LI’s talatech in 19 ILD?

There are a few numbers for LI Talalay here (click on #4) but the testing protocols may not be “apples to apples” or using the same firmness levels. The differences in any of these numbers are not meaningful or significant enough that I would make durability an issue with any of them. Both Dunlop and Talalay have a long history of lasting decades in real life use … at least in firmer versions (see post #2 here)

It’s 80% Cotton and 20% Polyester (there’s a picture of the law tag too). It does seem to pretty decently constructed based on the other photos of it there. Wish i could find someone that has first-hand experience with this cover, search results on these forums (using the terms “VELOUR” or “memoryfoamlatex”) didn’t turn up anything. I’m still not sure if i should gamble on this item, especially given memoryfoamlatex’s history with improperly labeled items and their very poor return policy (buyer pays shipping both ways and 20% restocking fee), though Ebay does seem to honor their money back guarantee with this vendor (so if i did receive an item that wasn’t as described i could get a refund through Ebay).

Their history of mislisting some of their products is part of the risk of dealing with them. They also mention in the description that the cover you are looking at is yellow so it’s not the same cover as the picture and they have sold other covers in the past that were misdescribed. Some of the other names they have used include Latexusa and happy2EZ and 2ezMemTex and memoryfoamlatex and memoryfoamproducts and memoryfoam4you (you can just click the ones that are linked to see some forum search results) and probably some others as well.

Phoenix