Sometimes I’m not sure where to reply to these treads :huh:
Clawdia,
I’m a newly converted HUGE fan of wool. Have you seen this Mercola video?
We just bought this 1.5" topper. I believe it has around 16lbs of raw wool in it (E King):
I am already sleeping much better after just 2 days.
Good Luck!
Phoenix,
Thanks for the additional info on the serenity. My wife and I are planning a trip down to Richmond tomorrow to visit OMF and hopefully find our replacement mattress. Are there any other OMF mattresses of note that are high quality and something we should strongly evaluate? We did lay on their Latex Mattress, which had a much different feel than the SleepEZ due to the additional polyfoam. Are these OMF latex Mattress high quality?
Really appreciate any additional info on OMF from you or anyone else that has experience there.
Thanks!!
Hi Rosenthal,
I don’t know the specifics of their mattresses but they are generally open and transparent about the materials inside them and they tend to have better quality/value than most major brand mattresses in similar price ranges.
Any mattress … regardless of the manufacturer … is only as good as its construction and the quality and suitability of the materials and layers inside for a particular person and budget range. If you are looking at any of their specific mattresses and post the specifics of all the layers on the forum I’d be happy to share my thoughts about it or help you identify any potential weak links in the mattress. The information you would need is the thickness of each layer, the density of any polyfoam or memory foam, and the type and blend of any latex. Overall though, smaller local or regional manufacturers like OMF are usually a better source of quality and value than most mainstream choices.
They use blended Talalay (the same as the SleepEz regular line) which is a very high quality material. The “surface feel” would be different with the polyfoam quilting vs the more costly wool in the SleepEz but the comfort layer and the support layer underneath will be what provides you with most of the pressure relief and alignment. They also show their mattresses on an “active” innerspring which will also change the feel of a mattress vs a non flexing foundation.
While the quality of the latex materials is good and the thickness of the polyfoam quilting is inside the range of around an inch or so that I would consider to be OK … I would make sure you do some careful and objective testing for PPP because you may have a tendency to choose a mattress that is too soft which may feel good in a showroom but it may not feel nearly as good when you wake up in the morning after sleeping out of alignment (which is the most common cause for lower back pain and sometime for joints that are outside of their neutral range of motion as well). The SleepEz mattress would probably have been softer than the Savvy Rest you tested as well (Savvy Rest doesn’t have super soft). Each person is different of course and “averages” don’t apply to all people but I thought I would share a caution for when you replace the mattress.
Phoenix
I can’t imagine sleeping on my Talalay topper without more wool layers.
The wool is a great regulator - indeed. Our bed is never cold: a fleece topper, and flannel sheets - all topped with a wool comforter. We use wool pillows also, never cold and never hot.
I’ll never have down again - wool really has been wonderful.
What type of mattress cover (encasement or ticking) do you have? Is your wool fleece topper right on top of the mattress? Do you put your sheet right on top of the fleece? Or did you add another mattress protector?
I’m trying to get a sense of how much layering others do 
I bought a sunbeam heated mattress pad from macy’s. Down comforters never keep me warm. I am a cotton and wool blanket kind of gal. We live in MN so during the winter the room gets quite chilly. Even when our bed was first delivered and it was ninety plus outside I didn’t feel like it slept hot at all. At that point I was using a Lands End all cotton mattress pad. I have found that they key for me is to not have any polyester fill in my quilts or mattress pads. When my husband first had chronic pain we got a cuddle ewe mattress pad and it was great for a couple years and the got lumpy.
Since my last post we’ve done a few things with our mattress, still don’t have it quite “right” but we’re pretty close. You have to try things and give them some time before you know, sometimes.
First, we researched slatted frames and built one to place on top of our platform, for the sake of raising the mattress and adding ventilation. Unfortunately, we hated the feel of it. I could feel the lumpiness of the slats through the mattress and slats necessarily have some give to them, which makes the mattress saggy. We couldn’t stand it, so we just faced the fact it was a fail, and decided we’ll just have to take the risk of mold and stay with a solid platform. We keep our bedroom warm & dry so hopefully we won’t have any issues. So we built a ‘bunky’ type of platform to add on top of ours in order to lift the mattress up a few inches. Having hated the saggy feeling of the slatted one so much, we built this one really solid, lol. In fact, so solid the mattress became more firm than it originally felt and we ended up putting our 3" memory foam back on it again. That worked pretty well and we thought we had it good but after while we realized it does cause some alignment issues and we need a thinner one.
The foundation a mattress is on makes a huge difference to the feel of a mattress. My feeling about latex is that it follows every contour of what is under it and transfers the feel to the surface.
Costco was advertising a 4lb memory foam that comes in 2, 3 or 4" thickness so I ordered the 2" figuring, if it is no good I can always take it back to Costco. The 3" memory foam we have was from Costco and is really good quality but they do not carry the same manufacturer anymore, this new one is Serta. Well, we got it and it is no way comparable to the first one we bought. It’s so soft, you bottom out right through it. I was looking at the reviews on Costco’s site and noticed other complaints, a few saying that they weighed theirs and measured it and no way is it 4lb. So we did the same with ours and found the same; according to our calculations it is only 2.7lb. So that is going back.
So, now I am back in the market for a quality, dense memory foam topper. I plan to try 2" since our platform is firmer now. I’m looking at a few possibilities, any recommendation which would be better for a person using a heated blanket?
Sleepwarehouse.com has the Sensus 5lb running $285 for Cal King. Foamorder.com has a 5.3lb called “posture sense” which is very reasonable, 2" only $138, but is it Certipure? Myluxurymattress.com has a 5.3lb which would be $265 for a split Cal King, this one is Bayer. The only higher density I’ve found in stock anywhere is a 7.3lb memory foam at Restava, but California King in only 1" is $500- maybe it would be worth it but that is an expensive experiment.
I noticed one description saying the Bayer memory foam is “lively” - does that mean it is going to be jiggly like the latex? I don’t want anything like that! I want something dense that sensations can just die into. Any suggestions are welcome.
A couple comments about previous posts- I wish I could use wool, I’ll bet it works great. We have a flannel fitted sheet from CuddlEwe which is awesome, this is my second one from them, the first one lasted years. Really good quality. We also have a baseboard heater in our bedroom so we can keep it warmer than the rest of the house- that is one of my favorite things.
Hi SleepDeprived,
Thanks for the update and your comments and insights 
Is this the topper you ordered? It’s frustrating enough when you can’t find out the density of a topper but it’s even more frustrating when the density is listed incorrectly. I’ve seen several examples of this on the Costco website. I’m curious because you mentioned it was made by Serta but Sealy purchased a minority interest in Comfort Revolution and this is the only topper I could see that was available in a 2", 3" or 4" thickness and was listed as 4 lbs.
You can see a video here about the 4lb and 5 lb Bayer memory foam and there are also more about the Sensus and Aerus. “Lively” would be relative to other memory foams that have a slow recovery because it would be anything but “lively” compared to other types of fast response foams such as latex.
They are Chinese manufactured but they are apparently now CertiPur certified (see post #10 here). They should be able to confirm this to make sure.
Phoenix
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Is this the topper you ordered? It’s frustrating enough when you can’t find out the density of a topper but it’s even more frustrating when the density is listed incorrectly. I’ve seen several examples of this on the Costco website. I’m curious because you mentioned it was made by Serta but Sealy purchased a minority interest in Comfort Revolution and this is the only topper I could see that was available in a 2", 3" or 4" thickness and was listed as 4 lbs.[/quote]
Yes, that is the one. I’m sure you are correct, Phoenix, I thought I remembered the paperwork saying Serta but most likely I mixed it up with Sealy.
Thanks, Phoenix! That is great to hear. We are going to go with the Bayer, the return policy is great with MyLuxuryMattress and the description sounds like what we’re looking for. Thanks for your input!
Hi SleepDeprived,
Thanks for the clarification
I wanted to make sure so I could link to your post if other members here were considering the same topper.
Phoenix