Simple question asked to Tuft & Needle, Casper, Leesa, and Dreamfoam and their responses.

[phoenix]

Hi Bixler,

There is a store in town that sells Boyd mattresses. I was a bit concerned, after reading your mattress forum, when the salesman told me that memory foam slept cooler than latex.

You will hear all kinds of misinformation in the industry that doesn’t fit the facts. I would be somewhat cautious about Boyd mattresses and I would make sure that you can find out the specifics of every layer in any of their mattresses you are considering (see this article) … and I would be particularly cautious about any of their mattresses that contain “engineered latex” which is just polyfoam and isn’t latex at all (see post #3 here and post #2 here). A forum search on “Boyd” (you can just click the link) will bring up more comments and feedback about them as well.

My husband, who can get a good night’s sleep on the floor, is adamant that it will be a royal pain to order a mattress without trying it. With the trial period, I don’t see the issue. Have any of your readers had experience with returning a mattress? I need to reassure him that this would be easy to do.

All the “one choice fits all” mattresses (including Casper) have a great return policy so there would be very little risk in trying any of them in your bedroom instead of a showroom because all of them make it easy to return the mattress (or donate it to a local charity) and receive a refund if the mattress you purchased doesn’t turn out to be as good a “match” as you hoped for in terms of PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences).

There is more about the pros and cons of some of the “one choice fits all” mattresses in post #3 here that may be helpful.

There have been a number of forum members that have ended up returning a mattress that they purchased from one of these companies and I haven’t heard of any issues in receiving a prompt refund from any of them.

I was leaning towards latex, as I have severe sciatic issues, and am getting ready to enter the “hot flash” phase of my life.

I wouldn’t call the Casper mattress a “latex” mattress because they only have 1.5" of latex in the design and there is also 1.5" of 4 lb memory foam memory foam underneath this and then there is a 7" 1.8 lb polyfoam support core although it’s true that the top layer that you would be sleeping on directly is synthetic latex which would have good breathability and ventilation.

A mattress that sleeps warm for some people may be well inside a comfortable temperature range for others depending on where they are in the “oven to iceberg” range and on the temperature and humidity in their bedroom and the mattress protector or any mattress pad you are using, your sheets and bedding, and your bedclothes, which can all have a significant effect on sleeping temperature regardless of your mattress and in some cases changing these may be all that is necessary to keep sleeping temperatures inside the range that you are comfortable with even if one mattress tends to sleep warmer than another.

There is more about the many variables that can affect sleeping temperature in post #2 here that can help you choose a choose the combination of materials and components and the types of mattresses that will have the best chance of keeping you in a temperature range that you are comfortable with.

Phoenix