The Essentia Blog

What’s better, latex mattress or memory foam mattress? I get this question every day. Here`s the low down.

Lets compare the 2: Latex Mattress vs Memory Foam Mattress

Memory foam mattresses are made with petroleum based chemicals. This is not eco-friendly but they offer unmatched pressure relief and blood circulation and you’ll find memory foam mattresses in hospitals across the country because of this.

Qualities and prices vary greatly so choose wisely.

Latex mattresses pretty much last forever and they’re eco-friendly, coming from a renewable resource. Latex is as green as it gets when it comes to mattresses. However, they cannot compete with memory foam in terms of pressure relief but do a pretty good job. Latex mattress tend to hover around the the same price range as better quality memory foam mattress.

If you’re going latex, choose a 100% natural latex mattress. There are plenty of synthetic latexes, blends and partially synthetic latex mattresses on the market so do your research.

Essentia’s Hybrid Latex / Memory Foam Mattress

That’s where our hybrid latex foam comes into play.

We’ve taken 100% all natural latex and through our process managed to achieve memory foam like properties with a better feel. We’re the only manufacturers of this natural memory foam in the world. read more about Essentia’s natural memory foam.

Pretty simple ay, now you’re in the know.

Danielle Asks:
I saw your products at my local Costco. I was told that the foam was made from essential oils.

Since essential oils are the extracts of the odorant part of plants, I am wondering why I was also told that the mattresses did not have any smell or scent.

I am wondering why, I love essential oils and use them myself, a nice lavender scented mattress seems like a very restful thing.

Thanks,

Danielle

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Answer: Everything has an odor. We say it’s odorless because our foam has very little odor, nothing remotely close to all other memory foams on the market. We did this by replacing the chemical ingredients with natural ones such as essential oils, plant extracts and water.

There are 2 major issues with memory foam.
1) They’re not breathable. (because it’s a synthetic material)
2) They have a very strong odor. (because they’re made with chemicals)

By choosing our Natural Memory Foam Mattresses & Pillows you solve the above issues. You may also be interested in our list of chemicals in mattresses.

Got questions??? Ask them here.

Off Gassing from memory foam mattresses seems to be a major complaint among owners. They complain of headaches, watery eyes or crusty morning eyes and sometimes respiratory issues.

Why is your Mattress Off Gassing?
Most memory foams are created using chemicals. Chances are if it’s a cheap memory foam mattress they used cheaper chemicals to produce it. High density foams, which are found in high end mattresses, require more chemicals to achieve the high densities.

Glues are used to bond all the layers together. These glues off-gas as well which some are sensitive to.

So all these chemicals result is a product that offgasses.

Essentia mattresses dont offgas because we use natural ingredients to create our foam such as essential oils and plant extracts.

We dont use chemicals to achieve our density either. Our foam is high-pressure injected into a mold until the desired density is reached. That’s why we make them 1 at a time. If we’d use glue we could make 12 mattresses in the time it takes us to make 1 using our molding technology.

The product is more costly to produce but we believe the health benefits are well worth it.