First impressions of Ikea Morgongava - for those interested

[phoenix]

Hi Syracusa,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feedback about the Morgangava … I appreciate it. I think you may be the first one to have written about it since it recently replaced the very similar Sultan Edsele.

I think that anyone that owns a latex mattress can relate to your comments about how heavy and floppy latex is.

[quote]Maybe it’s because this one hasn’t been broken in and the one on display at the store had been tried by many people?
I do see a pillow topper in the future of this mattress.
I also understood the Dunlop type of latex as opposed to Talalay makes it firmer.[/quote]

It will soften and break in a little but latex softens much more slowly than other types of foam. There is a wide range of firmness levels with both Dunlop and Talalay and the Ikea mattresses use Mountaintop Foams C3 latex (see here) which is in the firmer side of their firmness range. There are certainly softer versions of Dunlop but as you mentioned you can always add a topper if you need to.

- Although IKEA says it is all natural (minus the bit of synthetic latex) and that it was NOT treated with any chemicals or FR-s (they used wool to pass the FR requirement), when we took it out of the plastic it smelled like a huge chemical factory. Maybe it’s because it had been encased in that plastic cover in storage? Windows are open now and fans are on …but it still makes me wonder whether IKEA is lying.

While anything can have some initial smell including latex (which can sometimes be quite strong initially) … they are telling the truth and all the latex that Mountaintop Foam makes (who supplies Ikea) is Oeko-Tex tested for harmful substances and VOC’s so there isn’t anything harmful in the smell.

Phoenix