Do I need a new mattress? How do I find the right one?

Has your mattress seen too many nights?

Do you see your body indentation, when you leave the bed in the morning? If yes, it could be a sign, your mattress is sagging – and thereby prevent yourself from a good and healthy nights’ sleep! Sagging mostly occurs in the middle of a mattress and mostly is a sign, your mattress may have seen too many nights – and you need a new one. It is to mention, a little body impression in the morning on your mattress is completely normal and isn’t the same as “sagging” – you hopefully slept at least 8 hours on it, which naturally changes the outlook of every material, synthetic ones and natural ones. Also the age of your mattress, the materials and your bodyweight are going to influence, how much you will sink in your mattress, as well as the firmness you chose – physical laws are at work, even when we are sleeping ;).

Which firmness do you prefer?

Our Natural Organic Latex mattresses come in different firmnesses for you to choose from, based on your weight, your sleeping position, as well as the pillow you use and your preference of density or firmness.

Our design of the mattresses incorporates the use of a variety of comfort layers, just as coconut fibre (sustainable sourced in Sri Lanka) in our “Spine Health” variation, New Zealand wool from the South Island and cotton from Australia in all of our mattresses.

As all foams, Latex will soften with use and time. This settling is not a structural or design defect, but an expected result. Compressions or nestings of less than 3cm to 4cm should not be considered or confused with sagging of your mattress. Slight body impressions are a normal phenomena of your body’s preferred comfort zone, or sleep position, during your sleep and are not an indication that the components of the mattress are breaking down. This does not impair the quality, functionality or durability of your mattress, but if the visible comfort zone is a concern for you, every mattress of us is double sided, that means, you can enjoy a good nights’ sleep from both sides! Flip your mattress and rotate it to delay sights of indentations. If you do so, our mattresses are going to last 15 to 20 years, giving you an optimal support of your body throughout all the years!

Firmness and softness of a mattress can be really objective. Just because we are calling one of our mattresses “soft”, doesn’t have to mean, you think it’s soft at all. All our written advice is generalized and may not meet your personal requirements. With this said, here is a short overview of our mattresses:

* In all our mattresses wool can be exchanged for tencel fibre from the Eucalyptus tree. Our “AWAKEN” wool free and vegan mattresses are 100% plant based and come in the same firmnesses than our woolen ones.

100% Natural Organic Latex Mattresses

Which sleeping position do you like best?

Most adults have a preferred sleeping position. It can be the pose you choose in the evening to get yourself comfortable, or the one pose you wake up in nearly every morning. Nearly everyone is changing their sleep position during the night, most of us changing from 11 to 20 times in a 8- hour sleep period (National Sleep Foundation 2016). This is the reason, we extended the range of sleeping position from the classic side-sleeper, back-sleeper or belly-sleeper to combinations of those.
Please keep in mind, this chart is a suggestion only. Your age, your weight and your firmness preference have to be included in your choice individually. In general it can be said, the older you are, the more softness you like.

Hopefully this article could point you in a direction, which mattress is best for you. Not sure yet? Book a free sleep consultation with one of our experts or call us on 0508 466 288 or 09 838 0087.

If you’re living in Auckland, come to our showroom in New Lynn and test the mattresses out by yourself! Everyone deserves to get a good night sleep, at INNATURE we try to make this possible.