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Latex Mattress to Visco Elastic (Memory Foam) Mattress Comparison
Choosing a mattress can be a confusing experience as there are so many options available to today’s consumer. But if you have decided that you are over the old fashioned spring or coil mattress and looking for a more comfortable mattress that can offer more health benefits and improve the quality of sleep, you may be considering a visco elastic foam mattress or a latex mattress.
Select Foam® offers visco elastic foam mattresses or memory foam mattresses in a wide range of profiles, construction options and design aesthetics. The visco elastic memory foam, once known more often as NASA or space foam offers the sleeper contoured comfort usually designed in layer upon layer of structured support, orthopedic foundation, comfort layers and plush high density visco foam layers. This can be in a free standing bed with the layers of mattress wrapped in a removable cover. Or for the sleeper just beginning to explore the world of visco foam mattresses, a mattress topper may be just the right place to start.
The visco foam mattress offers a number of health benefits. The visco foam is free of dust mites and allergens. The foam provides support without springs so for the sleeper with mobility issues, reducing the likelihood of developing bed sores from contact injury caused by spring and coil mattresses. For sleepers with chronic pain from back pain, joint or bone conditions such as fibromyalgia, arthritis or injury the visco foam mattress can cradle the sleeper in contoured comfort and allow the sleeper to be more comfortable without the need to toss and turn. For the sleeper who suffers from snoring or obstructive sleep apnea, the spinal alignment and support can reduce the obstruction to the airway allowing for a better night’s sleep. For sleepers who purchase a visco foam mattress of 5.3 density or higher made with high quality processes, from a reliable manufacturer like Select Foam®; the support, comfort and health benefits can be an affordable option. The wide range of designs allows the consumer to select a visco foam mattress that will fit effortlessly into the design of their bedroom or guestroom. Visco foam also offers a range of accessories including pillows, mattress toppers, RV and camping toppers as well as pet bed products made with the visco foam.
Latex mattresses are made from the milk colored liquid extracted from the rubber tree plant. This liquid which contains rubber particles is mixed with soap, water and other ingredients such as ammonia, zinc oxide and sulfur. The ingredients are blended together to create the latex foam mattress. Wash out processes remove the ammonia and all the other ingredients other than the sulfur which creates the spring back bouncy for the firm smooth surface mattress. The latex mattress process is a refinement of the 1950s foam rubber mattress process. Many consumers prefer to by latex as it is based on the natural plant by-product.
Like the visco foam the latex mattress is made without spring or coil support. So the latex mattress also offers the health benefits found when the sleep surface has support without pressure point contact. The latex mattress may cause concern for latex allergy sufferers but the process for the latex mattress is very different from the process for making latex gloves and medical latex. Therefore many latex allergy sufferers do not experience irritation from latex mattresses.
The latex mattress generally feels a bit firmer than the visco foam mattress. Latex mattresses are often recommended for the sleeper who is more overweight as it offers support without compressing with the body weight.
Both mattresses offer health benefits and a comfortable solution from the spring
mattress design. The consumer preference for sink in support or spring back
firmness will most likely be the determining factor.
