I am a female side sleeper, 5’9", 200 lbs, 53.
When sleeping on my side I need to raise my feet on an adjustable base just a smidge to straighten out my spine for pain relief. I have had an all latex mattress for 15 years and now find coils are more comfortable so want to make a switch. I am also tired of latex smell in the bedroom. My old one has stunk of latex on and off for the 15 years and never lost the latex odor. It was a Boulder Foam Source 8" Nulex with 2" soft talalay on top and 6" medium talalay on the bottom.
Have recently tried Joybed LXP soft. This is pretty good for my back and hips. Only problem is I have twice not gotten a mattress that is made to the specs. online and neither mattress has included the law tags with component information. Basically the mattresses are not made to standard sizes, aren’t the height advertised and do not contain any information about the contents on the law tags. Would love it if this worked out but the company seems very disorganized and not knowledgeable about their own products so not sure how much of what they post on their web site is true/accurate.
Next try was the My Green Mattress Natural Escape. Love the info on-line. Company seems to have their act together and there was no odor to the product. Mattress was as advertised. However, the zoning with the middle one-third firmer than the top and the bottom puts my body into an arc with the hips and waist at the top. Addition of a 2" soft talalay latex topper doesn’t help as the arc is still there.
Would like suggestions of a soft, plush, hybrid mattress with no VOCs so all natural or organic. Anything with a firmer midsection will not work for me. Need either no zoning or reverse zoning. No odor is very important. I am willing to add topper layers to create the comfort layer myself but I don’t think having a very firm base of coils is going to work for me as a side sleeper so need to start with a softer coil system that works on an adjustable base.
Thanks!
Thank you for reaching out. The smell issue you referred to with your older mattress is not something I have experienced and I’ve been selling Talalay latex for 22 years. Seems very bizarre for that to have happened with yours which makes me think it was something other than Talalay or it’s just a manufacturing mistake of some sort. That being said, all of our Hybrid coils are going to be firm so the only way to end up with a softer feel would be to have multiple layers of latex over the coil. Our Bolsa spring does have the Quantum Edge but does NOT have the zoning which sounds to me like the best choice for you. I would recommend doing a 2" Medium Talalay with a 3" Soft Talalay on top. Alternately you could do 3" of each. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks! I looked at your web site and didn’t see Bolsa in a twinXL. Is the ecosleep the one you are referring to? Also need to be sure it is compatible with an adjustable base.
I did go back to the Boulder Foam Source store and the whole place reeks of latex smell so maybe it is just their source.
Unfortunately the Bolsa is only available in King and Queen size. The Eco Sleep would be the model and works fine on an adjustable base, after all we roll and compress it to ship. You would need the additional layer however to achieve the comfort you are looking for. We have latex from all around the globe in our warehouse and no one has ever said anything about the smell especially Talalay latex. There are only 2 sources of Talalay so their source is our source. Perhaps it’s something else?
What sort of coil system does the eco sleep have? Is it zoned with firmer in the middle or is it uniformly one firmness? Is the whole thing firm or medium (I’m assuming not soft since you probably would have highlighted that).
I’m not in the business so can’t comment on the Talalay source. I do know that I stopped back in there to look at their latex mattresses again and the smell was so over powering it drove me from the store. Ours has stunk on and off over 15 years which makes me leery of latex.
I did just order a plush topper from My Green Mattress to try with their Natural Escape and the Joybed. I detected no odor from their Natural Escape so I have some hope.
Thanks Ken,
I definitely need something softer. I am currently looking at the Eco Terra. Reviews on here say it is soft. Do you (or anyone else) know of others I should look at that are soft, made of natural materials and reviews that say no odor?
The Eco Terra website is very confusing. On one page they say it’s made with all natural talalay and on another it says- We offer the Eco Terra at two firmness levels: Medium and Medium-Firm. Our Medium latex mattress has an indentation load deflection (ILD) of 24-26, and our Medium-Firm latex mattress has an ILD of 29-31. Both firmnesses are made with one seamless 3" Arpico 100% Natural latex layer. - Aripico is Sri Lankan Dunlop not Talalay.
I don’t see soft as an option and since they use an 8" coil I believe it is zoned. The do not have a zippered cover so if it’s too firm you can’t change anything.
Yes. I don’t get a solid feeling from Eco Terra talking to them on the phone either. Couldn’t really answer questions about how the mattress was made. The only encouraging thing was that alot of the reviews said the mattress was too soft which is what I’m looking for. But I was really put off by the return policy. You have to box it back up and they said you could get a box at Home Depot. I checked and you can’t.
After my mystery contents Joybed mattress (no materials info on tags, too short, not made to height specs.) I prefer only to deal with well established transparent companies.
Sounds like a good decision to me.
Thought I’d relate my findings here for others looking for the same.
Went to Nest Bedding today. They have a plush model in their Hybrid Latex. Might have even been too plush for me. But it has chemical and latex smell so won’t be right for me.
My real target was the Nest Bedding Organic Hybrid Latex. They didn’t have a plush on the floor to try, so I only got to try the medium. I don’t know if there are different coil systems between the medium and the plush. I think the guy said no, it was only a different topper, but the store was busy so hard to ask questions. I was able to pull up the web site on my phone to look at specs. while looking at the mattresses. However, I didn’t like the smell of their latex. I was actually pretty bummed about this because I went down there intending to pull the trigger and buy one.
When I get the My Green Mattress Plush topper I will take it over there to substitute for their latex if it does not have any odor. I looked a bit on the internet but did not see a microcoil topper that doesn’t have foam associated with it.
The Naturepedic EOS Classic can be ordered with a plush coil system of 15.5 G and soft microcoils on top. This didn’t seem particularly comfortable at the store. Mostly because the quilted layer on top was pretty thin and you could feel the microcoils underneath. For some reason the Chorus did not have this issue with the quilted layer but it only comes in a firm spring configuration. However I’m a little uncertain because I had thought the lady said all the coils were the same while I was in the store. But when I called back later she said I had been on the plush coils with soft microcoil. They just didn’t feel that way. In fact the firm Chorus felt softer.
I guess if the My Green Mattress latex topper is odor free I could use it in place of the latex in something like a Happsy with a zipper cover. Just not sure if the springs would be soft enough. The only one that has reviews with complaints of too soft is Eco Terra and I don’t like their return process. The My Green Mattress topper is on it’s way so I’ll soon find out if it doesn’t have a latex smell.
Right now I’m leaning toward the Naturepedic EOS Classic in soft/plush configuration because I like the specs. even though it wasn’t that comfortable/soft/plush in the store. How does this make even a bit of sense?
Spent the day at the Naturepedic store on their Classic EOS plush coil bed. The sales lady set me up with medium microcoils on one side and soft microcoils on the other. The medium microcoils was an unexpected positive surprise. It made the bed feel more luxurious. I think when sitting on the soft I bottom out into the main coils so it feels sort of cheap.
When laying down it was a toss up as to which was more comfortable. The medium through the lower torso but the shoulder for the soft. I plan to go back with my own pillow to evaluate again.
I am dismayed at the $2K price tag for a twinXL but I don’t see I have an alternative when looking for a soft/plush smell free bed. If anyone knows of one please chime in.
Thanks!