Best Mattresses For Sex (2024), Bounce & Support Tested

The bed starts out with a cooling pillow top; this layer is made of quilted foam and swaddled in a breathable Tencel™ Lyocell cover. For an added fee, you can upgrade to the super-cool GlacioTex™ cover.

The first layer underneath the pillow top is a medium-feel responsive foam that bounces back quickly as it comfortably cradles your body. Next, a copper-gel-infused memory foam cushions while keeping naturally cool and preventing bacterial buildup. The final memory foam layer before the coils helps transition into it and has a denser construction to bolster support of the comfort layers above it.

Individually wrapped coils make up the innerspring unit and are zoned across the middle of the mattress for enhanced lumbar support, leading to proper alignment of your spine. The edges of the mattress are also reinforced to keep them from sagging. Finally, everything sits on top of a dense foam base.

The cover protects the Euro pillow top, which is quilted with a plush, gel-infused foam. WinkBeds claims that this foam shouldn’t retain as much heat as its memory foam predecessors. Underneath, you’ll find a couple more foam layers geared toward support, including the brand’s LumbarLayer™, which targets the lower back.

The WinkBed’s coil unit is split into specialized zones that provide pushback where you need support, and cushioning where you need give. They’re reinforced along the edges to prevent you from feeling unstable when you roll to the border of the bed.

Each WinkBed is handmade in an American factory by a team of skilled workers. The brand also puts its designs through compression tests that simulate years of use, allowing it to confidently advertise the bed’s impressive durability.

Its top cover combines soft organic cotton with ArcticTex™ cooling fibers, and the quilted 2-inch Euro topper beneath has high thermal conductivity. That means it can attract excess heat away from your body—then vent it out of the bed’s AirBreath™ Heat Escape Gusset.

Next up is 2 inches of Nolah’s AirFoamICE™, a cooling foam that also knocks pressure relief out of the park. The graphite inside it helps with temperature regulation, while the air bubbles distributed throughout its structure help it to conform to your body’s topography.

Two more foam layers—a 2-inch sheet of high-resilience foam and a 1-inch sheet of high-density transition foam—follow the AirFoamICE™. They lead into the Evolution’s 8-inch innerspring unit, which is zoned to provide the right amount of support to different areas of the body.

The springs around the edges are also reinforced for extra strength on the sides.

At the very bottom of the bed, there’s a sturdy base of recycled plant fiber.

Every Saatva Classic begins with a 3-inch Euro pillow top dressed in an organic cotton cover. This initial layer is soft and cushiony, but it also feels slightly more supportive under your lumbar spine due to specialized quilting.

Next up, is a strip of memory foam (what Saatva calls a “crown” rather than a full layer) underneath that same lumbar region. It’s just on top of the pocketed “comfort coils” that make up the bed’s first spring unit. The springs themselves are firmer in the lumbar zone, too.

As if that wasn’t enough lumbar support, there’s a Lumbar Zone® Active Spinal Wire between the innerspring units that frames this crucial middle-third region of the bed. It’s followed by the second array of coils, which are interconnected rather than individually wrapped.

Around the entire perimeter of the bed, a border of high-density foam solids up the edges.

Its top cover features two separate technologies designed to help you achieve better sleep: Celliant® and Phase Change Material (PCM). Celliant® is a performance textile that aims to boost your body’s ability to recharge and recover after exercise. PCM, meanwhile, absorbs excess heat as the molecules inside of it shift their states from solid and liquid.

Under the cover is a layer of memory foam that’s been infused with copper. This beneficial metal helps with cooling as well as protection from germs and bacteria. After the memory foam, a layer of transition foam blends comfort and a bit more support.

The coil unit inside the Bear Elite Hybrid is zoned into areas with varying levels of resistance. This structure enables the springs to provide the right amount of pushback to different areas of the body, including the lumbar spine. The coils on the edges of the bed are also reinforced.

At the base of the mattress, a layer of high-density foam grounds everything above it.

The cover is made from temperature-regulating GlacioTex+ fibers to keep the surface cool to the touch.

The first comfort layer is a 1.5-inch layer of memory foam, infused with copper because of its innate antibacterial and cooling properties. Next, 2.5 inches of miniature wrapped coils are able to precisely contour to your body and relieve pressure. 

A 1.5 inch layer of super dense foam transitions into the second coil unit, an 8-inch layer of reinforced, encased coils. Everything sits on top of a 1-inch sturdy foam base.

Underneath this cover are four different CertiPUR-US® certified foam layers that each add unique features to the mattress. First, a 2-inch quilted foam layer prevents lingering body impressions in the bed’s surface. Then comes a 1.5-inch layer of comfort foam with an airflow design for added breathability. Next is an inch of responsive foam to give the bed its bounce-back. And finally, a transitional foam that overlies the innerspring unit.

8 inches of individually wrapped and zoned coils bolster the lower back area while maintaining proper alignment. They sit on top of a dense and sturdy foam base.

The Plank Firm is double-sided. Both sides have a quilted top, but this feature has slightly more loft and cushion on the traditionally firm side.

That side also has a 2-inch layer of TitanFlex™ comfort foam beneath it. This springy foam also lends the tiniest amount of give to this side.

The core of the mattress consists of a 6-inch high-density support foam. There’s nothing between this core and the quilted top on the ultra-firm side.