Best Mattress
What truly makes a mattress the best mattress? Is it materials? Design? Company? Warranty? Price point? Sleepopolis believes the best mattress is the one that meets your needs and desires at the lowest price possible.
In this round-up we’re looking at the best mattresses 2016 has to offer. Each of these mattresses and companies is exceptional is one or more ways. They represent the biggest and the best mattress manufactures who are truly breaking ground and creating a new definition of what it means to be the best in the world of sleep.
Best Mattress for 2016
While it sounds easy to just name a mattress and classify it as the best mattress this year, it’s not that simple. There are a plethora of factors that go into creating a well designed, manufactured, and serviced mattress. Sleepopolis does not believe that any one mattress is perfect for 100% of all sleepers.
Each of us has unique desires, body types, sleeping positions, weights, budgets, and other needs that will make each particular mattress a little better or worse. Each of the following mattresses are those that I believe offer the best value, performance, customer service, meet the needs of the vast majority of sleepers, and are designed and serviced by companies that truly have the needs of their customers first and foremost.
So without further adieu I present to you with the best mattresses for 2016.
Leesa
Price: $890
Feel: Medium
Score: 96%
Leesa offers one of the most balanced and exceptionally designed and manufactured mattresses I have tested to date. The Leesa mattress is built around maximizing value. The foams used and construction prioritizes the critiera that have the biggest impact on performance, while minimizing others. The result is an incredible value for the money.
Leesa is 10″ all foam mattress built from 3 different layers. The top layer is 2″ of Avena foam (similar to latex, but more durable), middle layer is 2″ of memory foam, and the base is 6″ of support foam. The Avena foam layer creates fast response, great cooling, and good bounce, while the core of memory foam delivers great support and pressure relief for sleepers of all body types and weights. Designed as a universal comfort mattress, the Leesa’s material selections and quality are able to deliver a consistent firmness and feel that meets the needs of a wide variety of sleepers. The Leesa is a 6 out of 10 on the firmness scale, where 10 is the most firm
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Exceptional value
4″ of comfort foam, high quality foams, and an excellent build. One of the absolute best values for the money.
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Avena foam
Similar feel to latex, resulting in great bounce, cooling, and a responsive comfortable feel, but with better durability.
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Company with a Heart
The Leesa One Ten program donates 1 mattress for every 10 they sell. Leesa has already donated over 4,000 mattress to homeless shelters and others in need.
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Nest Alexander Hybrid
Price: $1,199
Feel: Medium
Score: 96%
The Nest Bedding Alexander Hybrid mattress is a luxury bed built from pocketed coils, 6″ of high density foam, and a traditional padded top layer. Hybrid mattresses are able to combine the benefits of great support, bounce, and edge support via the pocketed coils with the pressure relieving contoured comfort of memory and other foams. The result is a best of both worlds mattress.
The Alexander Hybrid is a 13″ mattress built from 5 different layers. The very top of the mattress is a 2″ quilted and padded cushion layer for extra immediate softness. The foam core is 2″ of gel infused memory foam (cooling + comfort) and 2″ of transitional support foam. Lastly, the foundational layer of the mattress is a 5 zoned 7″ pocketed coil system. The Alexander Hybrid strikes a medium feel at a 5.5 out of 10 on the firmness scale.
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Affordable Luxury
High end luxury hybrid design at a surprisingly reasonable cost.
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Thick Comfort Layers
Uses a thick padded cover for extra cushion and padding on the top layer. Creates great contouring comfort and very good pressure relief.
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Pocketed Coil Support
Pocketed coil base is able to create excellent edge support (for both sitting & sleeping), general support, and deep compression support.
Loom & Leaf
Price: $999
Feel: Medium & Firm
Score: 94%
Loom & Leaf is a luxury high-density memory foam mattress. In the past high-density memory foam mattresses have been associated with a “stuck” feeling or excessive heat retention. Loom and Leaf manages both these problems through a more responsive top layer of gel foam that improves cooling and response. The result is a classic memory foam feel that won’t sleep hot and won’t leave you stuck.
The Loom & Leaf mattress is 12″ thick and built from 5 different layers of foam and materials. The mattress is topped with a quilted padded cover 5/8″ thick. This creates a traditional feel and immediate softness. The core of the mattress is a 2″ layer of gel foam, 2″ of memory foam, and a 2.0″ transitional support foam. Finally, the base layer is a 5.5″ support foam base. These layers work together to create exceptional support, comfort, and pressure relief in a luxury memory foam package that balances response and cooling, while not sacrificing the desirous feel that memory foam creates. The Loom & Leaf is available in both medium, 5.5 out of 10, and firm, 8.5 out of 10.
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High-Density Memory Foam
Luxury high-density memory foam mattress with a traditional memory foam feel.
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Full Service Delivery
One of the only online mattress companies that ships with full service delivery (they will setup in your home).
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Gel Cooling
Combines the classic feel of memory foam with a gel layer to manage heat retention and cooling issues.
Best mattresses for heavy people – Are you above 200 pounds? Make sure you’re getting enough support.
Purple
Price: $999
Feel: Medium
Score: 94%
The Purple mattress is the most unique mattress on this list and the most unique mattress I have tested to date. What gives Purple its unique feel is the hyper elastic polymer that is the top layer of the mattress. This polymer layer creates a level of cooling, response, and bounce that foam is not able to replicate. This top layer also gives the Purple a unique feel that’s unlike any I have tested.
Purple is constructed from 3 different layers. The top layer is a 2″ layer of hyper elastic Purple polymer. This layer creates much of the comfort, cooling, and feel for the mattress. The core of the mattress is a 3.5″ layer of polyfoam, creating much of the support for the mattress. Finally, the base of the mattress is a 4″ layer of support foam. The Purple has a medium feel at a 6-6.5 out of 10 on the firmness scale.
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Polymer Top Layer
Unique hyper elastic polymer top layer creates incredible response, great bounce, and very good cooling.
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Great Value
High end polymer isn’t brand new, but it is unprecedented at this price point. Great value for the money.
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Response + Pressure Relief
A great in-between for those sleepers who don’t want to give up the response and bounce from coils, but also want the pressure relieving comfort that gel and foam is able to create.
Saatva
Price: $899
Feel: Soft, Medium, & Firm
Score: 94%
Saatva is one of the veterans of the online mattress industry. They have been producing and selling their luxury coil-on-coil pillow top for nearly 5 years. Saatva sits in a fairly unique position as the only true pillow top mattress on this list and the only coil-on-coil support system. These attributes give it a leg up in terms of cooling and response vs. many mattresses, but also create one of the most traditional luxury mattress feels Sleepopolis has tested to date.
Saatva is built from several layers of both foam and coils. The Saatva is topped with a plush euro-style pillow top for a cloud like soft feel. A 1″ thin layer of memory foam sits below this to provide a degree of lumbar support. The core of the mattress is 4″ of foam wrapped contour coils. These coils create much of the support for the mattress. Finally, a layer of high profile foundational coils create the base of the Saatva. The Saatva mattress is available in soft, 3.5 out of 10, medium, 6 out of 10, and firm, 8.5 out of 10.
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Coil-on-Coil Design
One of the only luxury coil-on-coil pillow top mattresses sold on online. Also includes full service delivery (they will setup in your home).
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Pillow Top
Euro-style pillow top creates great softness and a nice feel, but still has a clean and modern aesthetic to it.
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Good Airflow
Coil-on-coil + pillow top design is able to create great cooling by minimizing any potential heat retention issues by not using foam
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Ghostbed
Price: $750
Feel: Medium
Score: 92%
Ghostbed is one of the old timers on this list. Ghostbed as a mattress model has only been around for a short while, however, their parent company, Nature’s Sleep has been in the business of creating great mattresses and bedding for decades. The Ghostbed is the summation of decades of experience in the mattress industry, all wrapped in a very competitive price point, which has been achieved through the sheer size of Nature’s Sleep.
The Ghostbed is an all foam mattress built from 3 different layers of foam. The top layer is 2″ of latex foam. The core of the mattress is 2″ of gel memory foam. Lastly, the bottom layer is 7″ of high density support foam. The top latex layer creates great cooling, comfort, bounce, and response, while the memory foam core creates much of the support and pressure relief. The gel infusion within the memory foam helps to further enhance the cooling attributes of the mattress at large. At $750 for a Queen the Ghostbed is a great value and strikes a medium feel at a 6-6.5 out of 10 on the firmness scale.
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Great Value
High quality materials, especially at this price point.
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4" of Comfort Layers
4″ of comfort material creates great comfort and support for a wide variety of sleepers.
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Veteran Company
Designed and sold by one of the veterans of the mattress industry, Nature’s Sleep.
Helix
Price: $900
Feel: Custom
Score: 90%
Helix is the only mattress on this list that offers a completely customized and personalized mattress. In fact, they are among a very small number of mattress companies that offer this personalization at all, and the only company that offers it at such a reasonable price. Every Helix mattress order begins with sleepers filling out a short sleep quiz. This quiz helps Helix determine the order of the layers in your mattress, the specific firmnesses and densities required for your mattress, and other specs that help create a feel that’s perfectly suited to your needs.
Even with the customization, all Helix mattresses include a 2″ layer of latex, 1.5″ layer of microcoils, 2″ polyfoam transitional layer, and a 4.5″ base foam layer. The density, firmness, feel, and order of these layers changes based on the results of your personalized mattress quiz. This gives Helix the ability to create a wide range of feels and support based on your weight, body type, and other preferences. The Helix is available in firmness that range from a 2 up to a 9 out of 10 on the firmness scale.
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100% Customized
Personalization results in a mattress that is entirely customized to individual sleeper needs
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Great for Couples
Great choice for those sleepers who have very specific needs or for couples who have different needs.
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Split Design Available
The ability to custom split two sides of a mattress is virtually unheard of at this price point.