Natura or PranaSleep

[phoenix]

Hi cantsleep,

My concern is not knowing how stable the company is after the bankruptcy, but this large chain surely would have dropped them as well if there were issues?

Natura was purchased by Spring Air / Sommex which later became just Sommex (see post #7 here). They are a large company and I wouldn’t have any concerns about their stability (although in the mattress industry even the largest manufacturers aren’t immune from bankruptcy).

You can see the specs of the Natura Eco Sanctuary here.

All the materials are good quality and there are no obvious weak links in the mattress so from a quality perspective this would be a good choice … especially for those who liked a thicker layer of wool in the cover.

How close in feel to the showroom mattress will a new one be initially? Does Latex take some time to break in?

Any new mattress will be a little firmer than a showroom mattress that has broken in and it can take about 30 - 90 days for the materials to settle in, the foams to lose any of their initial “false firmness”, and for the fabrics to stretch and lose any of their initial stiffness.

Will the wool compress to being hard over time or should I not worry about that since it’s in the quilting?

It depends to some degree on the weight of the wool and on how it is compressed or quilted but with thicker layers of wool you can expect some degree of compression over time (in the range of up to 30%). This is a normal part of how wool performs over time and isn’t a quality or durability issue (unlike polyfoam where visible impressions are a sign of the material softening and/or breaking down). Wool that becomes more compressed will become a little firmer.

PranaSleep Vinyassa Luxury Plush and PranaSleep Vinyassa Plush-
I admit that I loved the feel of both these mattresses as well. It feels good in the showroom, but has a little more “bounce” compared to the EcoSanctuary. Coming from a Tempurpedic and not a spring mattress, this is not favorable to me. My main concern is that they are putting foam over latex and won’t it break down and change this lovely feel to something I may or may not like down the road? Seems like maybe I’ve read some bad reviews of people that had that happen at 6+ months. Maybe the company has remedied this? Oddly, I think I felt that these mattresses created some warmth each time I was on them, is this common? The Natura did not have that going on at all, perhaps it’s the Prana cover?

I would also be very cautious about the Prana mattresses. You can read more about them in post #3 here and in post #2 here and in post #3 here. A forum search on Prana (you can just click this) will also bring up more information and feedback about them.

If I was choosing between only these and they were otherwise similar in terms of PPP and the parts of my personal value equation that were most important to me then I would lean towards the one that doesn’t have potential weak links in the design (the Natura).

Phoenix