Gel Latex Hybrid Mattress

[phoenix]

Hi BGarfield,

Gel is for the lazy salesperson who has a customer that is pre-sold on memory foam, but is concerned about it sleeping hot; the salesperson will follow the path of least resistance. “oh you hear memory foam sleeps hot? Gel foam gives you the same feel and is cooler.” What the customer doesn’t know is that gel doesn’t sleep cooler. It will feel cooler for a little while. But it will get hotter as you warm it up. Once warmed up, it is less breathable than even memory foam.
I feel bad for people who have a real issue with temperature regulation who are taken in by this marketing. Hopefully you can avoid becoming one of them.

While there is some truth to this of course (especially about the gel hype that is so common in the industry today) … there is also clear evidence and information available that gel materials do have some benefits and can improve the properties of the foams they are added to. As is so often the case … sweeping generalizations that don’t take into account the many variations of a material and their relative benefits aren’t usually very accurate.

My reply to your post about gel materials in another thread here includes links to more information about gel foams that makes a distinction between different types and better and lower quality gel foam materials instead of lumping them all together into a single group and evaluating them as a single material.

Phoenix