Plant based poly support core?

[phoenix]

Hi brc722,

Unfortunately, I did not get the IDL on those for me to know the differences.

ILD is a comfort spec so it’s not particularly important to know when you are testing mattresses locally where your testing will tell you if a mattress is firm or soft enough.

Spec-wise , this seems like a well constructed formulation to me. What do you think?

I agree that there are no obvious weak links in the mattress … but then that’s not surprising when you are dealing with a good manufacturer like Worley

I did come across info saying that the addition of certain materials like gels can affect the foam durability. I did inquire why there was gel added to the latex since latex is the most breathable of foams, and he told me it was related to the market trend and what consumers are now on the look out for, so its really not necessary but there because of that. Do you think the addition of the gel will compromise the latex by much enough to rethink this set up?

I’m guessing you are referring to Talalay GL (which uses phase change gel in the Talalay to help with temperaturre regulation). I agree with his comments and the gel won’t affect the durability of the latex.

My other concern is although I understand the benefits of buying through a local factory direct manner, as someone who perhaps has become too dependent on product reviews, there is no way of telling what the reception that particular bed receives by other buyers. I suppose the assumption that better materials being used to begin with should be enough to rest concerns of product satisfaction.

How “other buyers” feel on a mattress has little to do with how it will feel and perform for you in terms of PPP and relying on this type of information can be more misleading than helpful. Your careful and objective testing will tell you more about how a mattress will feel and perform for you than any reviews and knowing the construction and quality of the materials inside a mattress is the only way to evaluate and assess it’s quality and durability. Post #13 here has more about why I believe mattress reviews are not a particularly useful way to choose a mattress (it would be something like buying food or clothes based on other people’s preferences).

For clarification purposes, is blended talalay considered 100% natural latex or just 100% latex ( it being a mix of synthetic and natural latex)?

Blended Talalay is 100 % Talalay latex (it’s a latex core made with the Talalay method of production so it’s either Talalay latex or it’s not) but it uses a blend of about 30% natural rubber and about 70% synthetic rubber so it’s not 100% natural. Technically I suppose you could say that a latex core or layer isn’t 100% latex (meaning rubber) because there are also other substances that are used to produce the foam besides just the raw latex rubber (foaming agents, curing agents, gelling agents, anti-degradants, and others) but the percentages refer to the relative percentage of natural and/or synthetic rubber in the final product not the total percentage of rubber itself. In other words … 100% natural latex (either Talalay or Dunlop) means that all the rubber in the product is natural … not that the product is 100% rubber and contains nothing else.

Phoenix