Hi WheNICU,
[quote]While I was there, the sales rep mentioned he strongly favors Talalay latex over Dunlop, because only Talalay is truly “pure”. He said to be skeptical of the spindle site saying “100% natural”, because according to him, there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ dunlop mattress.
But - from what I’ve gathered on the spindle site, their dunlop mattress is, in fact, all natural.
So - what gives? Was this sales rep correct, or uninformed?[/quote]
Sleepy’s doesn’t carry any mattresses that would be comparable to the Spindle mattress and not surprisingly for a chain store salesperson who are generally very uninformed (and just trying to convince you to buy one of their mattresses before you walk out the door) … the salesperson you talked with at Sleepy’s has no idea what he is talking about.
There is more about some of the differences between Talalay and Dunlop in post #7 here and there is also more about the different types and blends of latex in post #6 here. Both Talalay and Dunlop come in 100% natural versions but 100% natural Dunlop is much more common than 100% natural Talalay. I would also keep in mind that 100% natural latex means that all the rubber used in the latex foam compounding formulation is natural rubber (vs synthetic rubber) but there are also small amounts of other substances used in the formulation to foam and manufacturer the latex (see post #18 here).
Phoenix