If you tend to sleep hot, investing in a mattress with cooling capabilities could help. Furthermore, taking measures such as sleeping on cooler cotton sheets and ditching heavier blankets may also prove effective.
Numerous manufacturers add cooling features to their foam mattresses, such as pinholes in their latex to help dissipate heat for a more restful night’s rest.
1. Breathable Covers
Breathable fabrics provide air circulation through your mattress to avoid overheating, while being moisture wicking and absorbent, helping to minimize sweating that causes an uncomfortable sleep surface.
Many mattress pads are constructed using breathable materials that offer optimal temperature regulation, such as bamboo and cotton. Others, like Outlast’s phase change material, absorb, store and release heat efficiently to keep you feeling cool and comfy while sleeping.
The Cozy Earth ViscoSoft Copper Pillow Top mattress pad utilizes a plush fiber fill designed to capture and dissipate body heat for an easier sleeping surface. In addition, its shell fabric is made of copper yarns which regulate heat while offering moisture-wicking capabilities.
The Sijo TempTune mattress pad is an excellent choice for hot and humid climates, featuring fill made up of proprietary fibers that mimic the soft feel of natural down. Baffle boxes sewn into its shell fabric ensure fill remains evenly distributed so that fluffing becomes unnecessary; additionally, its cover can be machine-washed for added convenience.
2. Microcoils
Microcoils are smaller and lighter than their innerspring counterparts, as well as boasting more open and breathable designs that increase airflow for increased weight dispersion across the mattress surface to provide balanced support and pressure relief.
These coils are often enclosed in breathable non-woven fabrics to enhance breathability and coolness, with most manufacturers adding punch holes or slits in their coils to allow air passageways for ventilation purposes. Some mattresses even add layers of microcoils inside foam layers for increased breathability; Amerisleep’s Grace mattress uses this feature in order to sleep cooler.
Other mattress companies use various kinds of coils in their mattresses to increase breathability. Continuous wire coils are often cheaper to produce but don’t provide as much contouring support.
Other technologies, like phase change materials, are designed to convert body heat into infrared energy and regulate mattress temperatures accordingly. They store extra heat during hot nights before releasing it as needed in order to help regulate mattress temperatures more effectively.
3. Airflow
One of the key factors affecting mattress cooling is how quickly air passes through a mattress, so the best mattresses for hot sleepers tend to feature breathable sheets with loose weaves to encourage airflow and promote cooling. Cotton and linen sheets in particular are known for their breathability as well as moisture wicking capabilities that make them suitable for hot sleepers.
Foam structures also play a part in its ability to breathe properly. Traditional memory foam tends to absorb body heat and hold onto it; to combat this issue, memory foam manufacturers have developed strategies for increasing airflow; some brands such as Luxisleep use egg crate surfaces as vents in their foam while others create wider and deeper channels within it.
Some mattress makers go one step further by employing innovative fabrics to foster breathability, such as Spindle and Happsy which use natural fibers such as organic cotton with wool batting for breathability; Dreamcloud features luxurious cashmere; while Nectar uses Tencel fabric extracted from eucalyptus trees.
4. Gel Infusions
Overheating at night is one of the main obstacles to restful slumber, often leading to restless nights and disrupted rest, leaving individuals exhausted during the day and potentially developing long-term health concerns.
Memory foam’s closed-cell structure makes it adept at trapping heat but inefficient at dissipating it, but to address this problem some manufacturers inject gel beads into its surface layer in order to draw off and disperse excess body heat more effectively. Gel-infused memory foam mattresses may feature grid patterns or swirls of gel beads for improved airflow and reduced heat retention while some hybrid beds combine this layer with polyfoam or innerspring coils in an effort to optimize comfort and temperature regulation.
Gel-infused memory foam mattresses may emit off-gassing odors when first unboxed; thankfully, however, these often fade over time.
5. Graphite
Graphite is well-known for its ability to disperse heat, keeping sleepers cool and comfortable. Commonly added as part of a mattress’ foam layers or directly beneath its cover, graphite helps disperse body weight evenly across the mattress surface thereby relieving pressure points that accumulate on specific spots on a bed mattress.
Graphite mattress materials offer superior breathability compared to materials like natural latex that tend to retain body heat and lead to indentations, like natural latex. Its soft surface and fireproof properties made it popularly used on steam locomotives, electric motor brushes and Scope soldering irons throughout history.
Utilizing cutting-edge technologies and materials, this eco-friendly hybrid mattress features 2 inches of graphite-infused HTC foam to draw heat away from your body. A pocketed coil base layer offers support and stability. Finally, its luxurious cotton cover boasts airy escape gussets to increase breathability and comfort – it comes in medium firm firmness for optimal sleeping positions.
6. Phase Change Materials
Many memory foam mattresses can trap body heat unchecked. Therefore, mattress makers add cooling materials like gel, copper and charcoal into their designs to help sleep comfortably.
Temperature-regulating fabrics respond to your body’s core temperature, absorbing and dissipating heat according to your comfort needs. In essence, they act like an intelligent thermostat in your bed.
Fabric infused with PCMs (phase change materials) that work on the principle of latent energy–that minimal amount of energy required for matter to change states from solid to liquid and back again. When you heat up, PCM soaked into fabric will absorb and dissipate extra heat to keep you comfortable.
Other techniques involve cutting or contouring the surface of foam to improve airflow, as well as adding vents for increased breathability. Natural latex made from rubber trees is highly breathable and regulates temperature quickly – an ingredient commonly found in natural and hybrid mattresses alike, and sometimes used as the top layer in memory foam mattresses to avoid overheating.
7. Copper Infusions
Some cooling mattresses incorporate copper-infused materials to promote cooler sleep, due to copper’s naturally conductive properties that pull heat away from your body and regulate temperatures. This solution may help those struggling with memory foam’s tendency to retain heat.
Some mattress companies also aerate or perforate the latex layers to increase airflow, allowing body heat to dissipate more evenly through the mattress, providing relief to those who tend to get hot at night. This feature can be found on Tempur-Pedic ProBreeze and LuxeBreeze mattresses as well as Tuft & Needle Original mattresses.
Sleeping cool requires more than just purchasing a cooling mattress; other changes may also be necessary, including switching your sheets for more breathable cotton, linen or percale fabrics and switching out pillows with cooling materials like buckwheat hulls, natural latex or down alternative ones can help reduce heat build-up in the head and neck region – such pillows often incorporate phase change materials, gel infusions or other cooling technologies to aid your restful night’s rest.
8. Ice Blue
Some individuals naturally sleep hotter than others, but that doesn’t have to be an excuse for sweaty sleep. Ice Blue mattress cooling technology prevents body heat from being absorbed into the mattress; unlike many cooling gel trends that fade after only a short while, Ice Blue provides temperature regulation throughout the night – visit Texas Mattress Makers now and discover this innovative mattress topper – you won’t be sorry! It’s truly revolutionary in the way cool sleep is achieved.
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