Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The Benefits of Mattress Toppers

Mattress toppers are becoming more and more popular as they offer a cheap and practical way of rejuvenating a tired or sagging mattress. Most modern mattresses are very comfortable and offer superb levels of comfort and posture control but they are not cheap. A good quality mattress can cost up to and above a thousand pounds and with today's economic situation can be out of the budget where as a premium quality mattress topper can cost only a few hundred pounds and can revitalise your sleeping experience. So what topper should you choose? Well that all depends on the mattress you already have and what you are wanting to achieve, if you have bought an orthopaedic mattress thinking that if you have bad back this will help improve the situation then you could be wrong and you might be left with a hard sleeping surface. This will not always help relieve the pressure on your back when all you may have needed was a little more posture support from your existing mattress.

Today's modern mattress toppers have a two chamber design and are filled with super soft natural goose feathers and down or the premium ranges offer 100% pure down. They are made to offer superior levels of posture control and comfort as the bottom chamber is normally filled with a mix of feathers and down as this forms a dense layer that is ideal at giving a tired or soft mattress a level sleeping platform and then the top layer is filled with pure down giving you a soft fluffy layer to sink into.

The standard mattress toppers are normally filled with feathers and down in one three inch chamber which gives a very soft sleeping experience but not as much support, they are ideal to use on a hard orthopaedic mattress if you are trying to achieve more softness and less hard spots.

A good deal of technology is now incorporated into the toppers, cassette stitching to ensure a strong robust construction and will give your years of lasting use and internal baffle walls which help keep the filling evenly distributed throughout the cells and stop the down clumping together in the corners. So now you have been convinced that a mattress topper is for you and you are going to save some money instead of buying a new mattress, the next question is: what filling should i choose?

There are a great range of fillings to choose from, memory foam, synthetic microfiber and the two natural fillings mentioned above. Well lets deal with some of the pros and cons then:

Memory Foam mattress toppers are great for posture control and help eliminate hard spots and allowing the body to form the correct sleeping position aligning both the head and hips on a level platform. This helps the body to relax better and stops the need to move about at night trying to get that perfect sleep. The down side of memory foam is heat, if you get hot at night or sleep in a room that is warm you may find that the topper becomes too warm and can make you feel uncomfortable.

Synthetic microfiber or micro down fillings can act like natural down fillings but they can also suffer the same plight as the memory foam. Synthetic down is a great cost effective solution when the budget is tight and you still want a little bit of luxury. We would always recommend the use of the natural mattress topper fillings where possible as they will last longer and offer better levels of support and comfort.


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