Options without latex or memory foam

[phoenix]

Hi Elisabeth,

Welcome to the Mattress Forum!

Quick sum up - Looking at options for a foam mattress that does not include latex or memory foam. So my husband and I have been sleeping on a IKEA Sultan mattress for the past few years.

There were quite a few different Sultan mattresses available a few years ago, with some using latex, latex and polyfoam, memory foam and polyfoam, high resiliency polyfoam, and just plain polyfoam.

Looking through our options, that narrows us down to Tuft and Needle and the new IKEA Morgedal. We have tried the IKEA mattress - the firm felt like a rock and the medium firm was barely tolerable. We haven’t got a chance to try a Tuft and Needle, but do have a store within a 2 hour drive.

You can see some pictures of the Morgedal firm and medium mattresses in post #3 here. While the base layer is 2.2 lb polyfoam (it is not high resiliency polyfoam as Ikea lists it to be) which is a good quality material, the top layer of a mattress is normally the weakest link in a mattress because it is the layer that is most subject to the constant compression and deflection that is the main reason that foam will soften or break down over time and the top 4" - 4.5" layer in the Morgedal is 1.7 lb polyfoam which is a little lower quality/density then the 1.8 lb polyfoam that I would normally suggest as a minimum guideline for comfort layer, but a decent quality for an item in a lower budget range. The Tuft and Needle uses 3" of 2.8 lb High performance polyfoam on top of 7" of 1.8 lb polyfoam.

There are actually many different offerings containing only polyfoam, although a complete listing of everything that would be available nationally would be beyond the scope of this or any other forum. Even if a mattress has a small amount of memory foam in a “transition” layer, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the mattress would feel like a “typical” memory foam mattress. Just from the site members, there are offerings from Memory Foam Comfort, Nest Bedding, and Sedona Sleep, that have all polyfoam.

Brooklyn Bedding Best Mattress Ever - I haven’t been able to find out how “latex-y” their TitanFlex foam feels. It seems like it might last longer and be a better quality than the Tuft and Needle mattress.

The TitanFlex polyfoam is quite resilient, but probably not quite as “bouncy” as most people would compare to latex, and it is a very high quality material.

Love & Sleep Mattress Mattress - Same issue. How springy is their EnergexTM foam? I have no way of gauging that from their descriptions.

Descriptions are nice, but of course it would be impossible to relate the level of “springiness” of a completed mattress in any sort of a relative, relatable or meaningful scale. This is where only your own personal testing will be able to determine if the comfort of a mattress meets with your personal preferences. So it is always advisable when ordering online to become familiar with any potential return/exchange polices that a manufacturer might have available, should your purchase not turn out as well as you had hoped.

Thank you SO much for all of the great info found here, it’s really helped our search for a new mattress. There’s so much marketing MEH out there surrounding them and a lot of the companies leave you with a bad taste in your mouth, with all of the lawsuits and less than moral marketing techniques. This place is a breath of fresh air!

Thank you for the kind words. Hopefully some of the links I provided will assist you in your search.

Phoenix