soft mattress for 100lbs person, does it exist?

[phoenix]

Hi lombmi,

The Luxi only comes in split configuration as far as I know.

You didn’t mention the size of the Luxi mattress you had (queen and kings are split, fulls and twins are not), so I wasn’t sure of your configuration.

Currently a bed frame made of oak that is kind of platform style but accepts slats or boxspring and have tried using 2 different sets of slats one full bed size (they go over the center support) and one lonset ikea (neither bowed nor aged), tried a bunkie board, and have tried it directly on a floor that has been checked for level (dip still noticeable) as well as a low profile box spring (zinus most recently). The bed itself is level and sturdy.

Sounds good! Placing on the floor is the best way to check for dipping, which you already did.

Apologies for this rather broad statement, I was told by multiple mattress customer service agents when shopping around that their mattresses work better for people over 125 or 150 lbs. I did bring up bmi but most of them did not want to speak of it leading me to think they were just using a script and so I shouldn’t take anything they say as gospel.

Probably a good idea. Certain designs from particular companies may be for those specific ranges, and overall it is best to trust the advice from the manufacturer about the applicability of their products.

Sorry for butchering the quote but I have to say I have currently a 2" queen sized piece of talalay latex that is supposedly 14ild (I have no way of proving this but was told it was 13/14 and the softest available) and I do not sink down into it at all and just float on top.

A 100 pound individual would not float on top of such a soft piece of Talalay, as that is a very plush material, and such a mass would definitely break through the surface tension. For example, if you were to lie down on a 2" layer of 14 ILD latex placed on the floor, you would compress it to its maximum in quite a few areas and feel much more of the floor (it goes from soft to maximum compressed firmness within the space of a 2" layer) but if you had the same softness of latex in a 6" layer on the floor … it would feel much softer and compress more gradually and to a lesser percentage of its overall thickness and wouldn’t reach the same level of firmness or “bottom out” (which means reaching the maximum level of compression or firmness that a layer or a mattress can effectively achieve). While I’m not there to witness your sleeping posture, and we may be “talking past each other” a bit with semantics, it would most likely be the layers underneath the 2" topper that are creating or at least largely contributing to the firmness that you don’t desire (assuming the latex topper layer you have is indeed 14 ILD).

I did consider Flobeds but after seeing their soft latex was 22 ild I figured it wouldn’t work well for me since the 14ild still had me floating on top with an achy body in the morning. Initially I did email them regarding this and I am not sure I ever heard back, there is nothing in my inbox. However, I did consider this could be due to the other mattress innards I tried with the latex but without some guidance I was only guessing.

If you are interesting in learning what they have to say, I would recommend a phone call. They are very knowledgeable and helpful and their softer zones can start at 19 ILD in the blended, plus everything is topped off with their very plush convoluted latex.

Ideally I would love all latex as I like the idea of using (mostly) natural latex instead of foam but after trying multiple “soft” and “plush” latex toppers and finding them hard (even when laid directly on a floor) I worry that an all latex mattress will in fact feel the same.

You can’t judge the comfort of a complete latex mattress by the comfort you felt using a single latex topper on top of another type of mattress. That can only be judged testing out an all-latex mattress in person, as all of the layers of a mattress work together to provide comfort.

You may be interested in this post I wrote a few years ago about someone trying to achieve “zero pressure”.

Phoenix