The Sleep On Latex Hybrid Mattress

Double-sided is great. Only 2 inches of latex per side is not. This is basically an inner spring mattress with a 2 inch topper. Except you can't replace the topper, and when the coils sag, the mattress is ruined. I know they can cost more, but a full latex bed with removable and swappable layers is a much better option. "It's a more expensive mattress than our all-foam mattress" WOW. Pay more get a bed that won't last as long and that is not customizable. That stinks.

sleep on latex — medium firmness paired with their 2 inch soft latex topper. Life changing and the best sleep I’ve had in years.

The brand is called “Slep On Latex”

As someone who lives and breathes mattresses for a living, I’ll give credit where it’s due. The word “hybrid” gets thrown around so much it barely means anything anymore, honestly, most mattresses have technically been hybrids for decades. But if we’re going to use the term, this one looks like one of the few actually doing it the right way. Two sided. Real latex on both sides. Wool. Cotton. No glue. That’s the kind of construction we used to see before the industry raced to the bottom. Most “hybrids” today are just foam glued on top of springs with a fancy name. This one seems to be cut from a different cloth.

- Coils: > Coils come in many different varieties of firmness. You want firm coils or the mattress longevity decreases and the mattress sags a few years after buying it. The trouble is that most manufacturers resist telling you the gauge of the coils. They also resist telling you if the coils are nested, which helps a lot. Most coil systems are row, not nested. That's because there are fewer coils in a row as opposed to nested. So the row lowers cost. Nested is more coils and better. > Coil gauge is more important than coil count, though. Gauge means the thickness of the wire. A lower gauge means thicker, stronger and a higher gauge means thinner, more flexible wire. A 12-gauge coil is heavier and firmer than a 15-gauge coil which is lighter and softer. A mattress with 900 well-made, low-gauge coils is better than a mattress with 1,500 thin, under-tensioned coils. > Many people swear by the old system wherein coils are strung together with wire. But most consumers and manufacturers say that individual pocket coils are better for motion transfer and again, nested is better, low gauge is better - if you can find it. - Foam > You want to avoid anything synthetic. That includes memory foam. > You can choose between Dunlop and Talalay latex but a lot of manufacturers don't want to tell you the type of latex they are using. Most use Dunlop because it's cheaper. Talalay is actually the superior product. > There are probabaly 10 different firmness levels of Talalay ie; density/pushback, and 10 different firmness levels of Dunlop. In addition to that confusion, (2) x 3-inch slabs of Talalay will respond and hold up differently than a 6-inch core of Talalay. > If you decide on all latex/no springs, all one piece of thicker latex is better but most mattresses are built with 3-inch slabs for cost. > So you are looking at trying to get a manufacturer to tell you how much of what type of latex they use. And then it's even harder to get them to tell you the firmness level. Most use the least dense Dunlop because it's cheaper. Hardly anyone offers a solid 6-inch core. But that's the best if you are going no springs. - Fire barrier > You want a wool fire barrier as it breathes better and is better for your overall health than a synthetic. Most natural mattress suppliers do make their mattresses with wool so that helps. > Wool is an excellent material for a mattress. It's sustainable and natural and soft and comfortable. It breathes and it acts as a fire barrier. It's also cheap. So you will find a lot of manufacturers crowing about their generous layers of wool. It's great they use wool, but wool is one of the least expensive components of an all natural mattress. So you will see a lot of text devoted to how wonderful the wool is. - Cover > You want a 100% cotton cover. Not polyester or a synthetic. No rayon. - Tufting > Tufting is very hard to find and it increases the price of the mattress because it can only be done by hand and it takes about an hour per mattress. No glue factory assembly line. Once you sleep on a well-tufted mattress you will never want anything else. Most manufacturers are just gluing all the slabs of materials together. Not tufting. Tufting is better. Tufting = longevity. Glued slabs = shorter lifespan. - Reviews: > Most reviews are outdated. By the time you read the review or watch the youtube video the manufacturer has changed the components of the mattress you are considering. Almost all manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to reduce the cost of making the mattress. So they will use fewer and cheaper materials while pointing to reviews of previous versions of mattresses with the same names made with plenty of premium materials. They just won't tell you that the mattress with the same name and photo now has reduced quality springs and less latex. (*Looking at you, Avocado... but they all do this.*) > So all those good reviews may not apply to the actual mattress that is now available. So don't waste your time paying attention to reviews from 2022-2024 if you are going to buy your mattress in 2026.

Depends on the hybrid. SOL hybrid is a tank and I say that in the best way. It's very firm. So firm that there are multiple topper options. A hybrid with cheaper thin coils and thin layers of synthetic foam will sag quickly and yes, no way would that work for a stomach sleeper. A hybrid is just a combination of springs and foam. So there are infinite ways in which a hybrid can be firm as a brick or sagging - depending on the quality and firmness of the components.

Thank you so much for calling out the significance of tufting. I don't think all mattresses need to be tufted or that non-tufted mattresses are a bad buy. But there is a difference in the feel and longevity of the mattress when it's tufted. All mattresses used to be tufted before manufacturers recognized they could glue slabs together and be done. It's faster that way in an assembly line as tufting has to be done by hand and is a learned skill. I'm not here to say everyone must buy a tufted mattress. But I think it's important to be aware of tufting and what it does, and then make a decision either way. It's just not some irrelevant feature that doesn't matter. I'll add you all to this list. https://old.reddit.com/r/Mattress/comments/1o6uevm/tufting_where_to_find_it/

Some people get offended by the conversation. As though I'm saying there are no merits to non-tufted mattresses. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying there is a specific feel to it and -- *especially* if you plan to pay a premium price -- you should make sure you are familiar with that feeling and either want it or don't. imho (not a mattress sales person) I think it adds to the longevity of the mattress. You may pay about $1,000 typically for tufting over and above glued slabs. But you will get that back in longevity.

I think you had the opportunity to forego tufting in your new hybrid and decided to implement tufting. I'm impressed by that. Many mattresses have deep quilting which is a nice feature that may be meant to emulate tufting. But it is not tufting. I'm thinking of the Nest Finch which I like a lot but there are many, many others that offer deep quilting instead of tufting. I think it's fairly obvious that your tufting, avocado and all of the mattresses I've listed on the tufting thread are good quality. I could be wrong about Avocado and would need to check in person. imho the Avocado doesn't have as many tufting points as your hybrid or something like Custom Comfort for example. I take your point that just because a mattress features tufting, doesn't mean it's going to be well done. And at some price points the glued slabs might be a better buy than sloppy, tension-free tufting.

Wow. I don't think that's discouraging but for comparison: Queen Size: - My Green Mattress (8" zoned coils + 3" Dunlop) - 113 lbs. - Harvest Green (8" coils + 3" Dunlop) = 99lbs - Avocado Green (8" of zoned coils in 3 different gauges + 3" Dunlop) = 114 lbs. - Avocado All Latex/No Coils (6" of Talalay + 3" Dunlop) = 128lbs > Previously 9" of Dunlop at 140 lbs - Nest Finch (3" Talalay + 6" Talalay) = 120 lbs. - Sleep EZ 7" (3" of Talalay + 3" of Talalay) = 140 lbs. > note most people buy 3 layers from Sleep EZ. Not just two. You have the coils PLUS the additional 3" of Dunlop at the bottom which is probably where the weight differentlal is coming from. It makes your mattress flippable which is a premium feature that makes the mattress last longer.

> I know they can cost more, but a full latex bed with removable and swappable layers is a much better option. I disagree. Tufted mattresses last longer and for many people offer a better night's sleep. A deck of stacked foam slabs with a thin cotton cover isn't the solution for everyone. This is SOL answer to the Avocado and it looks like it may be even superior in a few ways.

I've mentioned a few times in comments that we had a hybrid mattress in the works, but I wanted to make a formal announcement here: our Hybrid Mattress has officially launched. It took longer than expected to make this happen, but I'm really proud of the final result and looking forward to hearing what you all think. **Why a Hybrid?** Over the years, we were asked constantly if we would ever sell a hybrid mattress. We always resisted. We sell a simple, great mattress and didn't see the need for anything new. However, over time, we started to see valid reasons why someone might prefer a more traditional spring mattress. We also came to appreciate that building a high-quality spring mattress is a genuine craft, requiring complex assembly and attention to detail. We became increasingly convinced that we could design and produce a hybrid mattress done right—one that would fill a void in the market while staying true to our ethos and living up to the expectations of our customers. Earlier this week, we launched the [Sleep On Latex Hybrid Mattress](https://sleeponlatex.com/products/hybrid-mattress). It's a new take on a traditional mattress, assembled, sewn, and tufted by hand in our Niles, IL factory, made for comfort and durability. **The Specs** * GOTS Certified, GOLS Certified Latex Foam, Fair For Life Certified Fair Trade Latex Foam, Greenguard Gold Certified * Double-sided (flippable) with zero-glue construction * 8" pocket coil unit (1,000-coil density) * 2" natural latex foam on each side (4" total) * Organic hemp insulator on each side * Organic wool (Wools of New Zealand) * 100% organic cotton brushed twill cover * Not roll-packed; free in-home delivery & setup included * Optional tufted toppers available This is very different from what we've sold before—both in construction and price. We didn't set out to hit the lowest price point; we set out to create the most value for our customers. It's a more expensive mattress than our all-foam mattress, but we felt the higher price point was necessary to do this mattress right. We know we have a lot of trust from our customers, and we wanted to deliver a product that matched their expectations. Any questions, feel free to ask in the comments and I will answer them!

Yeah, I completely agree with you about the value of tufting. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that tufting is not all one thing. Number of tufts, fabric type, tape length.... There is a huge variety out there and all of those things impact feel and performance. I have seen mattresses where the rosettes are literally hanging loose with zero tension and tufting, even with some tension, on stretchy knit fabric acts very differently than tufting on a woven. Appreciate you drawing attention to tufting on here, I have not seen others talk about it and it really does make a huge difference.

The mattress feels much more cohesive. You do not feel different layers or feel like you are laying on a set of layers, the mattress feels like one solid thing that moves together. The tufting also creates zones, in between tufts, that move more independently of one another because there is room to give in each zone without pulling at other parts of the mattress. This creates a more pinpointed feeling and more motion isolation.

We use Dunlop latex foam. We are partners in the Earthfoam factory in Sri Lanka that makes our latex foam. I'm always hesitant to give out ILD ratings because they are not used consistently between all companies and can be misleading. But basically we use our soft foam in the medium mattress which we list at [90 N (20 lbf) 25% IFD](https://sleeponlatex.com/blog/what-is-ild) and we use our medium foam in the firm mattress which we list at [150 N (34 lbf) 25% IFD](https://sleeponlatex.com/blog/what-is-ild). If you click on the links, there is more information about these measurements and ILD ratings in general. The foam in the toppers is our soft foam, but there is a lot of wool on both sides too so it's not the same as just a 2" foam topper.

I appreciate the feedback. We did consider 3" of latex on each side and might do a version like this in the future. I disagree that 3" of a comfort layers is necessary (although keep in mind we have more like 2.5" when you factor in the wool and hemp) but we totally understand that some people are going to want more softness. In our opinion, adding a soft topper is a better way to add softness than by building it into the mattress. We are offering a matching topper with 2" of soft latex foam and wool (around 2.5" when accounting for the wool) and 3" of soft latex foam (around 3.5" when accounting for the wool), so these can be added to get the comfort layer you are looking for. We did previously sell a soft version of our all foam mattress and I won't completely close the door to doing that again in the future. What made us stop was that we had a very high return on the soft mattresses compared to medium and firm. This led us to conclude that although people often say they want a soft mattress, they tend to want a very specific firmness which is not consistent between people (as you mentioned about it be subjective). I also think there are a lot of people that say they want a soft mattress but are not actually comfortable on a soft mattress when they use it night in and night out. For the foam mattress, we also just decided that adding a soft topper was a better way for our customers to create the softness they are looking for.

Great question and appreciate you considering us! Here are some of the reasons I came around to thinking there would be value from a more traditional spring mattress: \-Some people just want a higher loft, more traditional mattress. \-It’s easier to put functional handles on a spring mattress and move it. \-Some people have trouble adjusting to an all latex mattress initially and would rather try latex in a more traditional type of innerspring mattress. \-More flexibility with frames and bases As I mentioned in the post, I also just came to understand the potential handcrafted quality that spring mattresses can have and appreciated that springs (when done correctly) can be a quality component. Neither of our mattresses are going to feel like memory foam because latex foam is springy, not slow moving. Between the two, I think the all foam mattress will probably have a more similar construction to the memory foam mattress, but there is so much variation in memory foam mattresses that it's hard to say for sure. If you reach out to our customer service team, they will be happy to guide you through the process of deciding. We do have a free return policy on all of our mattresses so if something doesn't work, you can always swap it out or just return it. Thanks again!

Thanks for the interest! The topper is removable, it is not attached the mattress, so you can use it on either side. The price difference comes primarily from two factors: 1. The topper has a lot of wool on both sides. This gives it a super plush, luxurious feel but wool is expensive. 2. The topper is hand tufted to match the mattress. This is a labor intensive process but results in the topper matching the mattress and prevents the wool from moving around inside of the topper. You can just use one of our regular toppers with this mattress but we wanted to offer something more premium that would match the aesthetic of the mattress.

Thanks for considering us! It is latex foam on top of springs, so in that respect it will be similar but there are a lot of differences.  I’m not the best person to tell you about the Avocado mattress, but I can just tell you about some features of our mattress that I think are unique, especially in comparison to most roll-packed latex hybrid mattresses: It’s two sided It has an organic hemp insulator pad (reduces noise and feel of springs) It has padding all around that hide the feel of the springs on the side of the mattress No glue or polypropylene scrim sheet (which limits the movement of the springs) No polypropylene quilt-backing  We use Fair For Life Fair Trade Certified Latex Foam Wools of New Zealand Organic Wool It’s not roll packed - includes free In-Home Delivery and Setup 100 day no-questions asked return policy without any return fees or wait requirements

We put a simple 10 year warranty on our mattresses and we stand behind that. I know there are a lot of longer warranties out there but they are usually essentially worthless after 10 years because they are pro-rated (sometimes disproportionately) and / or have other restrictions. We have done some initial testing on the hybrid mattress and it tested extremely well. It had minimal loss in height or firmness over a simulated 10 years of use (this is not a perfect test). Issues with latex foam breaking down and starting to smell are sometimes related to uv exposure. It can also be dependent on foam manufacturer and formulation. There are a lot of reasons that foam may start to breakdown but one common one is the use of fillers. There is a latex foam manufacturer in the USA that has gone through several bankruptcies, I have seen a lot of their foam fall apart over time in a way that I have not seen from others. This may be part of the source of some of these experiences. Generally, you should expect well made latex foam to be more durable than almost any other mattress material. When paired with tufting and a well made spring unit, this is even more true.

Sleep on latex Medium King with 2 inch soft topper. My lower back got fixed and I sleep great now

Sleep on Latex is the brand

From my own research, each latex topper has a different density so it’s hard to compare apples to apples. Also, the firmness of the mattress plays a role in the comfort layer (topper) so what works for one might not be the same for another. I’ve tried the SOL hybrid medium mattress and their 3” soft and medium toppers. All have been too firm for me. I’m waiting on a Sleep EZ talalay topper to go on the 3” medium dunlop from SOL, otherwise I will similarly go back to the drawing board…