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What's the best latex mattress for you?
Choosing the right mattress can seem a little overwhelming at first. However, you can narrow down the options quite quickly with some guidance. First, we will break it into three main sections – your sleeping style, firmness preference, and organic latex mattress construction. We will then bring it all together with our curated mattress selections.
Your Primary Sleeping Position
There is some debate on what the best sleeping position is. However, we focus on fitting a mattress to you rather than some ideal that may never happen. Therefore, the first aspect to consider is your primary sleeping position. Typically, side sleepers should choose a softer option; back sleepers should go more in the mid-range, and stomach sleepers should choose something firmer. Still, people rarely stay in a static place throughout the night, so you may also consider your secondary sleeping positions.
Your Firmness Preferences
Some people just like a firmer or softer mattress regardless of sleeping position. Thankfully, organic latex rubber is supportive at all different firmness levels, allowing you to choose a bed based on your preferred comfort level.
Latex Mattress Contruction 101
The most common way of making latex rubber is in 6" moulds (Standard). Sometimes, it gets made in a thinner mould, but a solid moulded piece is never thicker than 6". Consequently, that became the basis of the traditional core and topper technique of building a latex mattress (Classic). The issue with old-school latex mattresses is that they had fewer comfort options and tended to be quite firm. However, there are a few things you can do a few things to make it more comfortable.
The first part is altering the density of the latex used as less dense is softer. But, simply using lower densities is often not enough to maximize pressure relief. There are two reasons for this. First, organic latex has a minimum density required for structural stability. In layman's terms, you can't make it too soft. Second, even the softer cores can be too firm to sink into them. Those thicker base layers reflect your body closer to the surface regardless of density or softness.
To take the next step in comfort, you must incorporate several thinner layers, as thinner latex layers are softer than thicker ones. They also help bridge the gap between layers. These comfort and transition layers allow for more pressure relief and a smoother overall feel. To effectively incorporate these thinner layers, you need to build thicker mattresses based on the 6" core (Unison) or make the bed entirely from thinner layers (Hevean). If all else is equal, thicker latex mattresses made from more layers are softer than thinner mattresses made from fewer layers.