If you are looking for To buy a mattress, I do not need to say -you are complex. To help -we have a whole This is presented (without any intentions … OK, partially planned) where to start. But for the moment I will walk through the various types of mattress material. My hope is that when you finish reading this, you will have a better idea of what kind of mattress you are looking for, which will make your final decision much easier.
To put in taste, leave -me to go through my credentials: I am a Sleep Science Certificate Certificate and the tester of mattresses over five years. I can dissect a faster mattress model than pouring the morning coffee cup, I perfected my box form (because mattresses are heavy), and I can recite the process of manufacturing main mattress materials at any given time. It’s a fun party trick, but it does what I like to think about how the final mattress tests. My colleagues also know their things (we sleep in mattresses we try for a week or more, and then we inform our findings), which helped us to collect this list of The best mattresses of 2025.
So, again to choose a type of mattress: despite the popularity of the mattresses in a box and the image they project in our head, it is much more than a rectangular foam piece in which you sleep. There are four main types of mattresses: INTERSPRING, Hybrid, memory foam and latex. To help -to tell these materials even more, I asked John Merwin, CEO of 3z Brands (Helix Matrix, Birch, Bear, Nolah and Leesa) and founder of Brooklyn Bedding, too.
Investorspring
The truth is called, this is a story lesson that a type of mattress you want to buy (unless you really love this type of mattress; in each of their own). Traditional “Internspring Mattresses” are the beds that can be firm that you probably have early memories, as the makeup is only InnerioSpring coils wrapped in a cover. It is as shameless as you probably remember, as the type of coil used involves connecting all coils to function as a unit.
This is Bonnell coils, and both are connected laterally and vertically. Everything to say, when you look and your weight is pressed on the mattress, all of these coils act as “one for all and for all” and compress them simultaneously. It will not wonders to relieve pressure as modern hybrids will, but it is very sensitive, which means that it will reappear in its original form as you move. So if you are a sleeping sleep between sleeping positions, coils are a good feature to have, so you get almost instantaneous support.
Why the traditional coils of the works with mattresses today? According to Merwin, updated pocket coil far exceeds traditional.
“Unlike traditional coils that shut and move as a unit, pocket coils are largely inclined, which allows each coil to independently respond to movement and pressure,” he said. “This design minimizes movement transfer, so that when a person moves or stays out of bed, his partner feels much less interruption. He also provides more directed support, contrary to the body so that he enhances the alignment of the marrow and global comfort.” Although you can still find INNERSPRING mattresses with traditional coils, they are usually done gradually in favor of hybrids. The truth is called, I have only tried less than a handful over the years. If you are killed in this type of mattress, all your power and have fun -you are in your personal mattress treasure hunt.
Hybrid
Traditional coil mattresses have evolved to hybrids, which is probably found in the current mattress market (apart from latex and foam options). Hybrid mattresses are very customizable, which allows you to choose and choose what you want in your bed, be it a combination of foam and coils, latex and coils, or even a mixture of the three. Many mattress reviews will use the phrase “best of both worlds” to describe hybrids, as this mattress allows you to taste the design aspects of the materials involved. You can get the pressure relief you need from the foam memory or the latex at the top, but a wide support from the coil core (not to mention the response mentioned by the inclusion of the coil).
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Speaking of coils and again in the design of traditional mattress, the type of coil used in hybrid mattresses is also important, as it improves the design of the Bonnell coil. The keywords to be sought are “pocket coils” or “individually wrapped coils”, which form the main mechanism of support of a mattress. Instead of interconnected, each coil stays in its own lane (pocket, really) and compresses uninhibited by the other coils that surround it. In other words, where there is more weight, the bed will feel firmer.
This is especially applicable to areas where body weight is centralized when you are lying, especially around hips and shoulders. Pocket coils are also intended to overcome traditional in the field of movement isolation, which means that when they move, the individual coil takes the heat movement and prevents the bed from restarting a small earthquake. With the interconnection of traditional coils, the feeling of moving throughout the surface of the bed is not needed.
