Green Mattress

Consider an Avocado Green Mattress in a Pillow-top, a GOTS-certified organic latex hybrid mattress. It's well-suited to your side and back sleeping preferences, fits your budget, and because it uses natural materials, it breathes well and retains little heat (sleeps cool).

My wife and I are currently on our seventh trial mattress in 2 years. The mattress market has changed a lot since I last bought one in \~2016, and the model that I liked then of course is no longer available. One of the mattresses we tried was the "new" version of that model, and it was just junk in comparison. Our preference is for medium firmness, so I won't offer specific recommendations. However, as someone who sleeps hot and prefers organic materials, I will say this: Latex is natural, unlike memory foam. It has more bounce and cradles less. For the top itself, Tencel is OK but cotton/wool is where it's at. The non-natural "cooling" stuff is a joke as far as I'm concerned. Out of the 7 we've tried, 2 stand out. One of the first we tried, hybrid with memory foam and a non-natural top. Firmness is perfect but it sleeps hot. Nest Sparrow. We kept it as a guest bed since we needed one for our new home anyway. The other is a hybrid too, but with latex and a cotton/wool top. Wish it were just a little bit more forgiving at the hips in terms of firmness, since I like to sleep on my side, but I don't overheat at all, which is phenomenal. Avocado Organic Pillowtop (from Costco).

I sleep hot. 1. I recommend cotton or silk sheets/blankets. I also recommend cotton for a mattress pad. 2. The mattress itself should be hybrid. Or just innerspring if you can tolerate it. 3. The top inside layer should be made of latex. Energex is OK. Avoid memory foam. 3. The top cover should be cotton or wool. Tencel is OK. Avoid manmade materials, including "cooling" covers. (They only work temporarily.) Not all brands are created equal, so you may find a memory foam mattress with a Tencel cover that gets the job done. Go for it in that case, as all-natural options can be quite spendy. I settled on an Avocado mattress after trying over half a dozen options, and it was by far the most expensive of the lot.

Hey there, So I'm 5'10", 220lbs. Mostly side, sometimes back sleeper. I'd been sleeping on a medium budget foam (not even memory foam) mattress for about a decade, when I decided I needed something new. I'd been having upper back problems due to scoliosis, which the doctor recommended a firmer mattress for. Great. I hear great things about latex mattresses and decide to go with Avocado Green (what had been the Standard when I bought it, now is called the Medium). Good news, it's been great for my upper back. Solid firmness has helped up there a ton. Bad news, after 4 months it's been absolutely killing my lower back and hips. I gave it time for my back to adjust and any break in to happen, but it's just been getting worse. Tightness, pain, and finally spasming. I'm relegated to the couch now. It think down near my lower backs and hips I can feel it pushing up at the small of my back, which combined with the firmness seems to be causing my problem. I threw on a cheap 3" memory foam topper I had laying around, but that did not help. Then again, it was quite old. So this mattress needs a return, but what to replace it with? A few thoughts: I've heard Talalay might be better for side sleepers, and I keep hearing good things about Engineered Sleep? But it also could be that the pressure that latex provides just isn't right for me. It's not Latex, but I also hear good things about Nolah for heavier types like myself. I don't like the sinking feeling of purely foam mattresses. Any other thoughts? I couldn't find anything zoned in a way that seems to fit what my spine seems to be demanding.

I went and layed on it because chat gpt sent me there and it just feels like a cheap mattress.

Keep in mind that Avocado requires you to fully rotate your mattress every month for 6 months, then every month after forever. I found it to be a pain to do so, so I returned my primary mattress (the green box top). Plus it had a defect. Also, you can only return a mattress to them once - ever. So if you exchange it and the new one doesn’t work, you’re screwed. I also have the green pillow top as my guest bed and I found it to be extremely uncomfortable for me as a side sleeper. I slept on it waiting for my new primary mattress to be delivered, and I actually switched to an air mattress that was more comfortable, lol. So obviously not a fan of this brands mattresses. They have an extremely active Marketing department and their product unfortunately does not live up to the hype of said Marketing Department.

Check out the Saatva Latex Hybrid. I have it and it works very well for me. I first tried the Avocado green box top but returned it. It had a defect from day 1 and I didn’t even want to get into it with the warranty crap. Saatva ships flat (not shoved in a box like Avocado). Also Avocado’s “excellent” return policy lets you return only one mattress - ever. So if you get a second one and it doesn’t work, you’re screwed.

Keep in mind that Avocado requires you to fully rotate your mattress every month for 6 months, then every month after forever. I found it to be a pain to do so, so I returned my primary mattress (the green box top). Plus it had a defect. Also, you can only return a mattress to them once - ever. So if you exchange it and the new one doesn’t work, you’re screwed. I also have the green pillow top as my guest bed and I found it to be extremely uncomfortable for me as a side sleeper. I slept on it waiting for my new primary mattress to be delivered, and I actually switched to an air mattress that was more comfortable, lol. So obviously not a fan of this brands mattresses. They have an extremely active Marketing department and their product unfortunately does not live up to the hype of said Marketing Department.

Avoid Avocado mattresses. Way overhyped. I bought one and returned it during the trial period. I have the Saatva latex hybrid with the Saatva organic quilted topper and I like it. If I were looking at an alternative brand, I’d personally go with Sleep on Latex.

Hi, thanks for your perspective. My experience was that Avocado was an incredibly difficult company to do business with after the purchase of the mattress. I purchased the Green box top and returned it after 11 months. They tout their 1 year trial period; however, in the fine print they only let you return a mattress under the trial period one time - ever. So if you exchange it for something that doesn’t work, you’re stuck with it. No thanks. The mattress I received had some sort of defect where one row of coils on one side didn’t compress properly and it was painful to lay on that row of coils. The other side was perfect. I believe this resulted from being a “bed in a box” situation. I will never buy another mattress that’s been shoved inside a box. It was one of the reasons I chose Saatva - their beds always ship flat and white glove delivery is included. Although Avocado’s warranty sounds good, there are reviews all over the place about people having difficulty getting resolution from Avocado. I didn’t want to have to go through all that and proving the coil issue (since it’s not something that could be documented with a photograph), so I just returned it under the trial period. I had to jump through a lot of hoops with pictures just to do the return covered by the free trial, so I can only imagine how difficult a warranty claim would be. Hell, they even made me take pictures of the guys loading the mattress into their truck when they took it away. And these were people from a charity that Avocado arranged to come pick up the mattress, so it’s overkill to require the customer to take pictures of people loading a mattress into their truck. Avocado’s legal department needs to chill. Another unacceptable thing was that Avocado REQUIRES you to fully rotate the mattress once a month for the first 6 months, and then every other month thereafter. That’s literally not a thing with other brands. Regarding the materials, sure, Avocado has everything (except their talalay) certified as organic from tons of different organizations. But is that a bit overkill? Let’s think about what’s really critical for a nontoxic mattress: no fiberglass, no glue, no dangerous chemicals. Does every shred of every ingredient in the entire mattress need to be organic in order for the mattress to be nontoxic? No. If there’s a small amount of polyester or rayon somewhere in the mattress, does that mean you’re breathing in something you shouldn’t? Also no. In my mind, the small amount of polyester and rayon in the Saatva isn’t a problem. It’s not like it’s even touching your skin, since it’s separated by a mattress protector and sheets. So, from my perspective, having mostly organic materials, no materials that are harmful, no chemicals, glue, fiberglass, etc is perfectly adequate in creating a nontoxic environment for me to sleep in. That, and Saatva’s excellent trial period (you can exchange it literally as many times as you want for just $99, and the 1 year period starts over with each exchange), and the fact that the mattress has never been shoved in a box and I never have to rotate it, made Saatva a much better choice for me. YMMV.

People in this thread and in this sub are looking for people who have actually owned and experienced specific mattresses and can share their direct experience. Otherwise it’s simply regurgitating information that’s already readily available online. It’s clear that you haven’t owned the Saatva latex hybrid, so this will be my finally reply on this. Regarding the rotation issue: I “mention rotation like it is a burden” because it literally is a burden. I don’t know anything about “$6k to 100k mattresses” because that’s not in my budget. But Avocado’s actual competitors do not require nor recommend rotation. I’m speaking specifically of Saatva, Sleep on Latex, and Plushbeds. Also, pro tip: when you add a topper, you can easily get the benefits you articulated above with a much easier rotation of just the topper without having to rotate the entire mattress. Disclaimer, since it’s important on here: I do not work for Saatva. I am not a contractor for Saatva. I do not have any financial relationship with Saatva nor any financial interest in Saatva. I don’t even know a single person that works there. I’m simply an actual customer who has had a good experience with their company. I am also an actual customer of Avocado. For the reasons articulated in this thread, I will not buy another Avocado mattress, but I do recommend their bedding and pillows. And finally, my replies are my own words and I did not use AI to write any portion of my replies. Happy hunting everyone!