Are You Overheating On Your TempurPedic Foam Mattress?

ARE YOU OVERHEATING ON YOUR TEMPURPEDIC VISCO ELASTIC FOAM MATTRESS?

Memory foam mattresses can often be the cause for a hot and sweaty night spent tossing and turning. Almost 10% of memory foam mattress owners report overheating or “sleeping hot” due to their mattresses. But, relief from overheating due to a memory foam mattress is easy and safe and achieved without the use of synthetic gel or foam cooling pads.

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Most likely, you’re reading this article because your Tempurpedic (made of visco elastic memory foam) or private label memory foam mattress is causing an uncomfortable night’s sleep. Not all foam mattresses affect everyone the same way and there can be significant differences between heat retention levels. If you are experiencing overheating or just not getting a great night’s sleep, consider the foam in your mattress could be the culprit.

WHY DO MEMORY FOAM MATTRESSES SLEEP HOT? 

The structure of memory foam can cause overheating.  One advantage of memory foams is that it molds to your body and tends to be extremely dense. Due to memory foams dense structure, air circulation is greatly restricted and reduced. As a result, heat stays trapped near your body and mattress temperatures continue to increase throughout the night. Memory foam is also soft, and one of its key advantages is that it molds to your body, essentially enveloping you while trapping heat, causing excessive sweating often triggering increased tossing and turning.

BODY HEAT

Sleeping with a partner can also cause overheating of your memory foam mattress. Two people sleeping side-by-side create more body heat than one, and memory foam can trap that heat between the two, resulting in increased temperatures, further diminishing the sleep process.

WOOL IS THE NATURAL ANSWER

If you find yourself overheating on your memory foam mattress, consider a 100% EcoWool Mattress Pad by Good Night Naturals. Wool is the most complex, breathable fiber on earth, responding to your body temperature by not overheating, as memory foam tends to do. Wool is a perfect insulator worn in many areas of the world to keep warm, yet the Bedouins of the Sahara wear wool because it keeps them cool during impossibly hot summer days.

WHY WOOL?

For thousands of years, sheep have been able to adapt to even the harshest of environments, as their wool protects them through hot, cold, damp and dry seasons. In this time, man has also used wool for this very protective property and for the many other benefits offered by the material:

• Wool's unique advantage is its breathability.
• Because of their crimped nature, when wool fibers are packed together, they form millions of tiny air pockets that trap air, and in turn serves to keep warmth in during winter and prevents overheating in the summer.
• Due to this hollow, water thirsty fibers ability to efficiently wick away sweat, bedding made with Wool promotes dry, comfortable warmth all evening long. (See Good Night Naturals Mattress Pads, Toppers and Comforters).
• Wool keeps bedding humidity levels very low and without a sufficient moisture, dust mites cannot survive.
• Wool is naturally fire retardant, allowing Good Night Naturals to offer you mattress pads, toppers and comforters chemical free!
• Through perspiration and breathing, an adult can loose up to a ½ pint of water vapor during a normal night of sleep (menopausal women can loose even more). Synthetic bedding made without EcoWool is ineffective managing high body humidity levels which can raise heart rate and blood pressure.
• Additionally, if you or your mattress feels damp or clammy it is likely you will toss, turn or awaken. 
• Tests at the Polytechnic Institute of Wales, featuring wool versus synthetic fibers, revealed that the heart rates under wool were significantly lower 100% of the time. Furthermore, when under a wool comforter, skin humidity was significantly lower 71% of the time.
• EcoWool has the ability to absorb and release moisture from the surrounding air, without compromising it's thermal efficiency. This property creates a natural buffering effect, stabilizing heat changes that occur with relative humidity. Practically, this will keep your body temperature consistent during cool or warm bed temperatures during the night.
• EcoWool, with its hollow fibers can effectively wick away moisture that your body looses all night long. Wool can absorb up to 30% of its own weight in moisture (10 times as much as synthetics) without showing signs of dampness.
• And with the proper care of wool bedding and mattresses, captured moisture is released back into the air.