LATEX, a few concerns

[phoenix]

Hi Diane 37,

(This Dunlop smelled to me. My hands retained the smell until I washed them at home. It was not a pleasant smell.)

Dunlop has a “rubber smell” which is not as “pleasant” as the sweeter smell of Talalay but it’s temporary and not harmful.

They had no idea of the ILD’s so this is all I can go on. I want to buy from Ken at Mattresses.net. He thinks that a similar feel will be achieved with this configuration, bottom to top:

Dunlop doesn’t have an exact ILD … only a range and ILD isn’t a “quality” spec so with local testing knowing the ILD isn’t important (your body will tell you everything you need to know). You can see the approximate range of Savvy Rest ILD’s in post #2 here. Qith Dunlop it’s often more accurte th think in terms of soft, medium, firm than to go by ILD numbers. The most accurate way to compare Dunlop in most cases is the density of the latex but this information usually isn’t available.

I thought that Dunlop is more firm in general than Talalay.

In the same layer thickness and the same ILD then Dunlop has a higher compression modulus than talalay so it will get firmer faster than Talalay. Every layer interacts with every other layer in a mattress so layer thickness, foam type, point elasticity will all contribute to how firm or soft a mattress feels to any particular person and how it compares to another mattress. This is as much an art as a science and educated guesses are the norm when you are “translating” one design into another (see post #9 here about matching one mattress design to another).

Phoenix