Tempurpedic

Read this interesting story on mattress shopping from the Arizona Daily Star. It has some great buying tips and consumer information.

Norma and Bob Gentry really hated shopping for a new mattress. After finishing a bedroom addition to their San Clemente home, the Tucson couple decided they couldn’t bear to move their ancient king-size set into the new digs. So off they went, trudging to department stores, specialty centers, furniture stores and everywhere else they could think of. “Everything we looked at was at least $1,500,” Norma Gentry recalls. “We didn’t really have it, and we didn’t want to spend $2,000 on a bed.” Finally, late last year, they found sleep nirvana — at Costco. They settled on an approximately $850 set from Sealy Posturepedic, knocked the price down with a coupon, then added a memory-foam mattress topper.

1. Latex mattresses are a natural, biodegradable renewable resource.
Beginning on plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia, latex is sap milked from rubber trees in a manner not unlike collecting maple syrup. Local workers harvest the liquid latex and prepare it to be processed. The liquid latex is then shipped in drums to locations in Europe and the United States where it is manufactured into mattress cores and toppers, as well as pillows. Unlike Talalay processed latex foams, natural latex has no added petroleum or other chemical additives making it a truly all natural material. Being a 100% renewable resource, as well as biodegradable, natural latex does not have the taxing effect on the environment as other conventional bedding material.

LuxBed Natural Sleep System Organic declares to be the “World’s Best Bed for your back and the best for overall comfort, luxury and better sleep.”

It has the following features, as per The Down Store website:

ARCHDALE, N.C. (WGHP) — A company most often associated with hot water is getting into bed, literally, with a local foam mattress company.Jacuzzi, the manufacturer of hot tubs, baths and showers, announced Friday it will produce a gel memory foam with Archdale, N.C.’s Thurmo-Pudic USA, a company known for creating state-of-the-art memory foam found in some mattresses.

“The gel visco (foam) is more supportive than the contemporary visco that’s used in the industry,” explained Jacuzzi president and CEO Tom Koos. “It’s cooler. That means a lot in the summer months, because visco has a tendency to be rather warm.”