While you may be thinking of buying a memory foam mattress, it may be the cost that is discouraging you from actually doing so. Despite the stories of the great sleep and excellent support, and the way the foam contours to the sleeper’s body at night and returns to its own shape in the morning, it may just be too expensive for you to acquire a memory mattress like that. But all may not be lost. It’s possible for you to experience all those benefits with a mattress topper made of memory foam placed over your own mattress.
Before looking at any memory foam mattress toppers or pads, do some research. To begin with, you need to be sure that your own original bed is in good enough shape to accommodate a memory foam mattress pad or topper. Your underlying mattress needs to be of moderate firmness (neither too soft nor too hard) and above all it must be very flat, with no dips in it and no “hammock” in the center. This is important because of the properties inherent in the visco memory foam of the topper itself.
What makes memory foam work as well as it does is because of the millions of tiny cells that soften with your body heat and gradually change shape to conform to your own contours. In a standard memory foam mattress, the heat only extends down about 3 inches, so that the underlying layer remains firm, in its original shape, providing support. This is why you need a firm, uniform underlying mattress if you are going to put a memory foam topper over your existing mattress. But it also means that if you buy a mattress topper from 3 to 5 inches in thickness, you’ll experience the effect of a full memory foam bed. Keep in mind, though, that if you go over 4 inches or so, the expense will start adding up almost to the full cost of a complete bed.
As long as you’ve taken care of the most important factors, you can have a mattress topper of memory foam, and experience the benefits of a full bed. Just be sure you’ve got a firm, flat underlying mattress, and that the topper is of a good thickness and density (in the range of 5 pounds per cubic foot or higher). Place the foam topper onto your own bed, and you could be sleeping as you have never slept before that very night.
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