My wife and I have been sleeping on a foam mattress with a memory foam topper for the past eight years, and it’s definitely showing the effects of years and the student budget it was purchased with. We’re consequently looking for a new mattress setup. Thanks largely to reading this forum, I’ve narrowed the options down considerably, but have a few remaining questions.
First, we’re both back/side sleepers; I’m 6’1"/165lb while she’s 5’7/140lb. We strongly prefer memory foam to latex toppers, so we’re leaning towards another all-foam solution. This is especially the case because we need to go with our queen size bed frame for now, but may well be interested in expanding to a king in 5-10 years after we’ve settled down and so have no need for a 15+ year lifetime.
I’ve looked at various options for DIY mattresses, but it looks like it’s hard to beat the standard options such as the Rocky Mountain Mattress Sensus 8" on price alone. This is particularly attractive due to the two internal layers with different ILDs, which we found to be essential when we tuned our current mattress. That said, if it’s possible to get the same type of mattress more cheaply DIY, suggestions on foam providers would be much appreciated. In this case we’d probably stick with the 3" Sensus as the topper.
However, the Eco-Friendly Memory Foam mattress sold through the Arizona Premium Mattress Company also looks interesting and even more reasonably priced. It does make me suspicious due to a lack of general reviews around the web and their insistence that it’s somehow a completely non-synthetic memory foam made from castor oil. It seems rather unlikely that you can get the same properties from castor oil cheaply. More, their inordinate emphasis on Brazilian soy farms destroying the Amazon - which was true but the most recent research indicates that soy farms are much less prone to continued destruction than the grazelands strategy they replaced - raises warning bells, as excessive and usually inaccurate “we’re eco-friendly!” advertising suggests an unwarranted price markup. Given the reasonable-seeming price, that makes me highly suspicious of the quality. My wife does suffer from some allergies, but we haven’t found foam to be a problem in the past, so I have no particular preference for a supposedly “eco-friendly” solution that is likely no more environmentally friendly than a simple petrochemically-derived foam (which would keep the carbon fixed and doesn’t compete with actual human food crops). The link to “reviews” links to one single review. All that said, if this forum endorses it, we’d be willing to try it.
Thoughts and suggestions on the Rocky Mountain Sensus option versus the most reliable DIY sources versus this “eco-friendly” alternative would be much appreciated.