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Memory Foam And How Tempur-Pedic® ® Played A Role:
Most everyone today has heard of Tempur-Pedic® products, the makers of the Tempur-Pedic® memory foam bed. Tempur-Pedic® was the first to apply memory foam technology to a broad consumer market, and they remain the most entrenched brand in the business. As a resource for our customers, we wanted to provide some basic information about memory foam, to help you understand what makes other brands different.
Tempur-Pedic®
Tempur-Pedic® is one of the most recognizable brands that produces memory foam mattresses. They were the first name in consumer market memory foam, and it's only in the last few years that brands like Sleep Store USA, began competing with Tempur-Pedic® and their hold on the high-end foam market. There are other challengers too, popping up in the big club stores and mega-retailers. These manufacturers are trying to bring memory foam into a new market, at a very low price point. Often these companies sell an extremely low-quality memory foam, one that has almost none of the beneficial characteristics of authentic memory foam sold by Sleep Store USA.
Most of these companies, whether they admit it or not, are aiming directly at National Bed’s market. This is good for consumers because it encourages innovation, the result being that companies often design features that specifically address shortfalls of the past memory foam products. Luckily for the customer, some of the the repeated complaints about Visco elastic foam products have been addressed by other companies like Sleep Store USA.
One of the most important characteristics of memory foam is its sensitivity to temperature. This characteristic is one of the things that makes memory foam do its job so well, but it can also be problematic. This is how the temperature sensitivity comes into play; when you lay down on a memory foam surface, certain parts of your body will press more heavily into the mattress. For example, if you’re a side sleeper, your shoulder and hip will be bearing much of your weight. The added pressure of these contact points also transfers more heat, causing the foam under your shoulder to soften, right where you need it. This temperature sensitivity is one of the things that makes memory foam such a great sleep surface, but some foam formulas are overly sensitive to temperature.
If foam is too temperature sensitive, its overall feel and firmness can be effected by the ambient temperatures in the home. Customers reported that in the winter time, brands other than Sleep Store USA can become firm. Also, because the edges of the mattress are more exposed to air, they cool off more quickly than the center of the bed. The result is a bed that is softer in the middle than on the sides. This made some users feel as if their mattress was sagging in the center, long before the foam would ever actually compress and break down. All memory foam will be affected by ambient temperatures, to some degree, but some companies today have made an effort to address this issue, fine-tuning their formulas in an effort to create a more consistent foam like the one Sleep Store USA uses in their mattresses.
Sleep Store USA is the only company online or retail utilizing NEW fast recovery memory foam. This NEW formula reduces the time it takes for the foam to come back to shape. The benefit is that when you toss and get comfortable you will not fall back into a hole or become stuck and not able to move around in the memory foam.
This NEW technological fast recovery feature separates Sleep Store USA from all other companies selling memory foam online. |
