The latest big thing in the mattress industry is “Visco Elastic Memory Foam”. A synthetic, oil based foam, it is available from most all manufacturers. To hear their advertisements, you would think there is no other material that should go in a mattress. But, like air mattresses, you either love them or you hate them!
There is a lot to love.
1. They form exactly to your body.
2. They last longer than an inner spring mattress made with poly foam.
3. They don’t transmit motion from one occupant to the other.
4. They don’t have to be turned.
We feel that there is a lot more not to love in them.
1. Probably one of the biggest draw backs about them is that they are petroleum based.
2. They also can be hot. (One of our favorite phrases we have heard about them is “It’s like cooking in your own juices.”)
3. They are temperature sensitive. The warmer the room is the softer they get and the slower they respond. The colder the room is the harder they get and the less they will form to your body.
4. They don’t provide lift. Unless your are very agile, they can be hard to get out of. That’s because when your body has warmed the foam all night, its response time is slower, so you have to climb up out of a hole to get out of bed. This same principle also makes it harder to roll over if you need to.
Tempur-Pedic is probably the most well know brand of memory foam mattresses. Like the Select Comfort air bed, when they first came out, they had a limited number of models and they claimed that one of these models was going to be the perfect bed for everyone in the world. Now, at last count, they have 8 or nine models. If those original beds were the perfect beds, why did they have to come out with more models. Big “AHA” moment here - there is no one mattress that is perfect for everyone!
So what is the answer if memory foam mattresses and inner spring mattresses have so many negatives?
Two words- natural latex.
1. Its made from a natural materials - latex rubber from the rubber tree.
2. Its is also a renewable resource.
3. It is the coolest type of mattress you can sleep on because it is made with an open cell structure. It breathes. In our store we demonstrate this by blowing into a piece of latex. The air passes right through it. You can’t do that with most memory foams and poly foam.
4. It is not temperature sensitive. It feels the same no matter what temperature the room or your body is.
5. It forms to your body like memory foam but it has lift - you don’t have to climb out of a hole to get out of bed.
6. A quality latex mattress will last 20 to 30 years.
7. They don’t transmit motion from one occupant to the other.
8. Because it only looses 1 to 3 % of its height over 20 years, it can be built as a true “no turn” mattress and you won’t end up with the deep body impressions you find in “no turn” innerspring mattresses made with poly foams.
9. Its hypoallergenic.
10. Its dust mite resistant.
Make your next mattress a Natural Latex mattress. Remember - Love your mattress, love yourself!
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