Hi dmbyron09,
I don’t recall making a comment like this and if I did it certainly isn’t accurate.
Savvy Rest uses CoCo latex in India for their Dunlop and Latex International for their Talalay. In an apples to apples comparison of one Dunlop supplier vs another … as long as you are comparing the same type of latex (100% natural vs 100% natural for example) and they both had a similar density and ILD … they would be very comparable.
While “quality” specs are important (and with latex these would be what type of latex is being used) … “comfort specs” for latex such as ILD or density which have little to do with quality can be much more difficult to find. Because the density or ILD of latex is not a quality issue and because comfort can be tested in person (and this is always more accurate than going by ILD or “theory at a distance”) … there is little incentive for a manufacturer that sells a mattress in a local area to provide the ILD or density of their latex layers. With an online provider … the “comfort specs” are much more important of course because all you have to go by (along with the guidance of the online provider) is the specs because you can’t test it in person until you receive it.
Some local retailers or manufacturers provide more information about the comfort specs of their layering than others and in many cases the “best” you have to go by is approximations if you are trying to match a local provider to an online source.
I don’t know the density or ILD of their Dunlop layers but they would be in the range of 20"s for the soft, 30’s for the medium and high 30’s and 40’s for the firm. Because their Talalay layers use a supplier that is more common (Latex International) … they would be a bit easier to match in the absence of specific information either from Savvy rest or from a manufacturer you were trying to match them with (the 100% natural Talalay only comes in 5 firmness levels and the softest is almost never used). Post #20 here may also be helpful in describing some of the objective and subjective challenges of “matching” the Savvy Rest (or any other mattress) to another one that may seem very similar.
Phoenix