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Email to a Friend I'd like to share an article I read on Consumers Digest with you... If you shopped for a mattress recently, you might have heard the term “hybrid.” However, it doesn’t denote a new type of mattress; it’s just a new marketing term for an innerspring mattress that incorporates some amount of specialty foam, such as gel, latex or memory foam. International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) doesn’t classify hybrid mattresses as a distinct category, but we found that most manufacturers use the term in their stores and promotional materials. Combination mattresses have been around, but manufacturers started referring to them as hybrids only in 2012, experts say. A queen-size hybrid mattress starts at $599, just as it did when the term emerged. (All of the prices in this article refer to queen-size mattresses.) What’s new is that almost every manufacturer now sells a hybrid mattress, compared with roughly half of all manufacturers previously. Even Tempur-Pedic, which once said it never would move away from its memory-foam-only specialty mattresses, introduced a hybrid mattress (starting at $2,299) in January 2015.
Furthermore, all hybrid mattresses used to incorporate gel, latex or memory foam. In 2014, manufacturers added new materials, such as graphite, plant-based polymers and silk, to their hybrid mattresses. We found that the ratio of coils to foam, the thickness of cushioning layers and the type of specialty materials vary among the latest hybrid mattresses. The result is that selecting a mattress is more challenging than ever before.Gel created a lot of publicity when manufacturers introduced gel-infused-foam hybrid and specialty mattresses in 2011. The manufacturers said these mattresses would lower sleep temperature and provide better support than a traditional mattress would. Since then, gel has become an industry standard. Almost every manufacturer now has at least one mattress line that incorporates gel-infused foam in the form of gel beads or gel swirls. These mattresses now start at $799, compared with $1,300 before. In 2014, Therapedic introduced the EcoGel2 collection (starting at $999), which is the first line of mattresses that includes an entire layer of gel.
The three models that are in the collection have a 1-to-2-inch layer of gel that sits on top of a gel-infused memory-foam layer. Therapedic says the gel layer allows the mattress to “sleep 30 percent cooler” than any other gel-infused foam mattress does. We slept on an EcoGel2, and we found that it feels cool but not necessarily cooler than other gel-infused foam mattresses that we evaluated. At press time, we haven’t heard of any other manufacturer that plans to introduce a mattress that has a full gel layer. Pure LatexBLISS and Restonic introduced mattresses (starting at $4,999 and $1,999, respectively) in the past 18 months that include graphite-infused latex. (At press time, those are the only manufacturers that use graphite.) Pure LatexBLISS and Restonic tell us that graphite cools the surface of latex, which is a solid material that typically has a higher surface temperature than gel. Ron Passaglia, who is the president of Restonic, tells us that graphite also adds a layer of comfort.
We tried both mattresses, and they certainly feel cool and soft. However, we didn’t notice that the graphite-infused latex mattresses provide any advantage over latex mattresses that don’t contain graphite. Gerry Borreggine, who is the president of Therapedic International, believes that the future is in floating foam, which is an air-permeable, plant-based polymer that the company introduced in January 2015 in its new Tommy Bahama line (starting at $1,000). Borreggine says floating foam absorbs movement and “sleeps cooler” better than gel or graphite does. A typical person makes up to 60 adjustments while sleeping for 7 hours, but the floating foam reduces your movement to as few as 10 adjustments, Borreggine says. Rearrange Your Comfort Read Now We tried the floating foam, and, again, we didn’t notice a temperature difference compared with gel-infused foam mattresses. However, the mattress seems to absorb our movement better than do other mattresses, and we seemed to move less than usual as we slept.