Which mattress to choose?

The morning sound of the alarm clock is like a scene from the worst nightmare. You feel like you just went to bed, took one nap, then another... Sounds familiar? If you go to bed early in the evening and you wake up sleepy every morning, it is worth wondering why it is happening. There can be many reasons, and one of them can be the wrong mattress.

"Dream is a balm for the soul" - William Shakespeare

Sleep is one of the basic human needs. It is a source of regeneration and rest necessary for proper daily functioning. So it is worth taking care of the highest possible comfort and quality of sleep - after all, we spend almost 1/3 of our lives in bed!

It should be remembered that too short sleep is not only fatigue accompanying us during the next day. Lack or limited possibility of regeneration and rest also negatively affects many aspects of our health. Sleeplessness may adversely affect our memory and concentration, be the cause of reduced immunity, weight gain or changing moods. And these are just a few of the undesirable effects of lack of proper regeneration during sleep.

The easiest way to avoid these unpleasant ailments is to have a good quality rest. How can we ensure a good night's sleep? It is worth focusing on small, evening rituals that will allow you to calm down and prepare for sleep. Turning off the phones that accompany us throughout the day, taking a few moments for a book or a relaxing bath may make it easier to fall asleep and make our sleep much more regenerating.

One of the most important factors influencing how relaxed we are is undoubtedly the type and quality of the mattress on which we sleep. For this reason, it is very important to sleep on a bed fitted with a mattress that is closely matched to our needs. Fortunately, the manufacturers are bending over backwards to meet the needs of their customers, so that we can find a wide range of mattresses with different parameters on the market.

When preparing to buy a mattress, it is worth considering, among other things, the degree of hardness that will be the most suitable for us. What should be the basis for choosing the hardness of a mattress? First of all, your preferences. However, it is also worth paying attention to health considerations - maybe the mattress we have used so far did not provide full support, which caused sleep deprivation or frequent pain in the neck or spine? Hard mattresses, medium (standard), made of thermoelastic foam or soft - each of them has unique properties, from which every lover of comfortable sleep will find something for himself.

We have finally come to the most important question: which mattress to choose? Should we focus on the price? Choose traditional, already known to us models? Or maybe decide for modern solutions that will ensure very high quality of sleep? Looking for the perfect mattress is not as easy as it might seem. Before making such a decision, it is worthwhile to enrich your mattress knowledge so that the choice we make will satisfy us and allow us to sleep at the highest level every night. It is worth remembering that the choice and purchase of a mattress is for most of us a decision for a few or even several years. So where to start? The best way to start is from scratch, i.e. to know what types of mattresses are available on the market and how they differ from each other.

Manufacturers offer us a wide range of mattresses, which, depending on the materials used in their production, can be divided into two main categories: foam mattresses and spring mattresses.

Probably most of us are well acquainted with spring mattresses, usually associated with an uncomfortable, hard bed, which guarantees us pain in our back or neck the next day. Spring mattresses were the first to appear on the market, and for a long time the only available mattresses. The design of the spring mattress, despite modifications, has remained roughly the same for many years.

More and more often, foam mattresses are used in our bedrooms. These are mattresses that provide very high comfort of use - much higher than in case of spring mattresses. Also, the level of hygiene and ease of maintenance are much better than in the case of spring mattresses.

The construction of spring mattresses is based on springs, which are covered with several layers of foam to increase comfort. Currently on the market we can find two most popular types of spring mattresses - bonell mattresses and pocket mattresses. They differ from each other in the distribution of the springs that hold the mattress structure. In a bonel mattress, the springs (called bonels) are connected to each other to form a grid. In the case of a pocket mattress, however, as the name suggests, each of the springs is separated from the rest and is located in a separate pocket, made of different types of fabric. Spring mattresses are very classic, but despite the improvements and additions used to improve sleep comfort, they are becoming more and more obsolete year after year and more often give way to new solutions.

Since their appearance on the market, foam mattresses have won the hearts of not only lovers of comfortable sleep, but also rehabilitation specialists and athletes. Why? First of all, because a mattress that perfectly adapts to the shape of the body allows for much faster and more effective regeneration. Manufacturers use several basic types of foams for the production of mattresses, but all of them have one thing in common - care for the user's sleeping comfort by perfectly adjusting to the needs and shape of the sleeping person's body. Before deciding to buy a foam mattress it is worthwhile to familiarize yourself with the brief characteristics of each of them.

Among foam mattresses we can find thermo-elastic and highly elastic ones. A mattress meeting the expectations of the most demanding sleep lovers will be a thermoelastic mattress, which is made of visco foam. What distinguishes this type of foam? It reacts perfectly with body warmth and allows for a perfect fit, and thus provides great comfort during sleep. Thanks to its sensitivity to temperature, the mattress adapts to the shape of the body, providing more support points and helping to regenerate all body parts. A strong competitor of a mattress made of thermoelastic foam is a mattress based on HR foam. It is high resilience foam (HR) with slightly increased hardness and elasticity. It meets the expectations of users who prefer mattresses that are minimally harder than body wrapping mattresses made of thermoelastic foam.

The answer to this question is not easy, and the opinions of users and specialists are divided. However, it cannot be overlooked that foam mattresses have great advantages that give them an undoubted advantage over spring mattresses. It is worth raising here another issue concerning the differences between the two types of mattresses - apart from comfort during use, an important issue is also the ease of keeping them clean.

Nowadays, when we live in a polluted environment and smog and allergens accompany us every day, we pay more and more attention to hygiene in our homes. So is it possible to eliminate or at least reduce allergens in our bedrooms, where we rest, regenerate and recharge our internal batteries? Of course it is. All foam mattresses, thanks to their structure, limit the possibility of mites accumulating in them. Spring mattresses do not perform so well in this matter - their structure encourages the accumulation of dust and various impurities, and this allows the development of mites that cause allergic reactions in many of us.

Foam mattress manufacturers are constantly working to improve them and provide better and better properties that will respond to consumer needs. The result of these efforts is, for example, the introduction of mattresses with the addition of nanosilver. Such mattresses, thanks to the content of silver particles, are even more hygienic and allow even for people with severe allergies to sleep peacefully.

The number of solutions available on the market now allow you to equip your bedroom in the way you dream. However, whether we are a fan of foam mattresses or prefer traditional spring mattresses - the more choice we have, the harder it is to decide which mattress will be most suitable for us.

Before deciding on the type of mattress we will equip our bedroom with, we invite you to read more detailed information, which you will find on our website. We believe that the knowledge we want to share with you will make the choice easier and guarantee a comfortable, healthy and hygienic sleep for a long time.