Inquiry Latex pure bliss

[phoenix]

Hi Mike7,

I do stand by post that I dont believe the PLB can be duplicated exactly unless the exact materials were used and so far not one company has made that claim.
But maybe there will be a company that can get the exact materials

Exactly … now you are “getting it”.

All the materials in the PLB can be ordered separately in the same thickness and in the same ILD as is used in the PLB mattresses. PLB doesn’t use anything in their mattresses that can’t be purchased separately. If you add a cover that is functionally the same you will have a duplicate mattress.

Other than that … each difference in layering or design can either add to the differences between two mattresses or offset each other so you could have a mattress that was a good approximation in terms of PPP for many or even most people (but not all people) that used a similar or sometimes quite different combination of layers.

I dont understand why anyone would try so hard to get the right feel with layers of latex and then use a wool cover and mattress pad that takes away from the feel of latex. That was another confusing point.

The reason is that some people much prefer a mattress that has a quilting layer of wool or other materials in the mattress vs a mattress where you sleep directly on the latex. They just don’t like the “feel” or resilience of bare latex as much as the “feel” of latex that has some kind of quilting material above it. In addition to this the wool can replace the fire barrier that would otherwise need to be used. You can see an example in this thread from earlier today of someone who likes the OMI Lago Nouveau which uses a cover that is quilted with thicker layers of wool and is incredibly “comfortable” for them and they didn’t like the springiness of some of the other latex mattresses they tried. One of my favorite latex mattresses was the OMI Terra which also has thicker layers of wool in the quilting.

I also wamted to say that the store I went to had every PLB model and at the foot of each one was the materials used and the ILDs of each.
thank you)

These are also listed on the forum here (at least for “version 3” of the PLB mattresses.

If you go to the Latex International site here you can see all the different types of latex they have available and post #4 here has sources for all of these in any thickness that someone may wish.

Phoenix