What Type of Mattress Is Right for You? (2025)

If you are looking for To buy a mattress, I don’t need to tell you that the search process is complex. To help that, we have a whole guide This presents (without puns … OK, partially wanted) where to start. But for the moment, I will cross the different types of mattresses materials. I hope that when you finish reading this, you will have a better idea of ​​the type of mattress you are looking for, which will facilitate your final decision.

To make your mind comfortable, let me guide you through my references: I am a Certified sleep science coach and mattress tester over five years old. I can dissect a mattress plan faster than pour your cup of morning coffee, I perfected my unpacking shape (because the mattresses are heavy), and I can recite the manufacturing process of major major materials at any time. It’s a funny party thing, but that makes me what I like to consider as the final boss of mattress tests. My teammates also know their belongings (we sleep on mattresses that we test for a week or more, then we postpone on our results), which helped us compile this list of Best mattresses of 2025.

So, let’s go back to the selection of a type of mattress: despite the popularity of the mattresses in a box and the image they project in our heads, it is much more than a piece of rectangular foam on which you sleep. There are four main types of mattresses: innerspring, hybrid, memory foam and latex. To help me explain these materials even more, I asked John Merwin, CEO of 3z Brands (parent company of Helix, Birch, Bear, Nolah and Leesa) and founder of Brooklyn Bedding, to weigh too.

Descent

To tell the truth, it is more a story lesson than a type of mattress for which you want to buy (unless you really love this type of mattress; to each one). Innumerable “traditional” mattresses are the firm closing beds of which you probably have early memories, since makeup is only interior coil enveloped in a blanket. It is just as creaky as you probably also remember, because the type of coil used is to connect each coil to operate as a single unit.

These are Bonnell coils, and they connect both laterally and vertically. Everything to say, when you lie down and your weight is in a hurry in the mattress, all these coils act as “one for all for one” and compress simultaneously. This will not do wonders for the relief of pressure as will do modern hybrids, but it is very reactive, which means that it will come back in its original form when you move. So, if you sleep that moves between the sleeping positions, the coils are a good feature to have, so you get close instant support.

Why are traditional coils not in progress with mattresses these days? According to Merwin, improved pocket coils go far out of traditional coils.

“Unlike traditional coils that are wired together and move like a unit, pocket coils are individually locked up, allowing each coil to respond independently to movement and pressure,” he said. “This design minimizes movement transfer, so when a person moves or leaves the bed, his partner feels much less disturbances. He also provides more targeted support, bypassing the body in a way that improves the alignment of the spine and overall comfort.” Although you can always find interior mattresses with traditional coils, they are generally progressive in favor of hybrids. To tell the truth, I have only tested less than a handful of them over the years. If you died on this type of mattress, all the power for you, and have fun on your personal mattress treasure hunt.

Hybrid

Traditional coil mattresses have evolved into hybrids, which you will probably meet on today’s mattress market (apart from latex and foam options). The hybrid mattresses are highly customizable, allowing you to choose what you want in your bed, whether it is a combination of foam and coils, latex and coils, or even a mixture of the three. Many mattress reviews will use the expression “the best of the two worlds” to describe hybrids, because this mattress allows you to sample the design aspects of the materials involved. You can obtain the relief of the pressure you need from memory foam or latex on the top, but a large support for the coil of the coil (not to mention the abovementioned reactivity of the inclusion of the coil).

With the kind authorization of Nolah

Speaking of coils and recalling the traditional mattress design, the type of coil used in hybrid mattres is also important because it improves the design of the Bonnell coil. The keywords to look for are “pocket coils” or “individually wrapped coils”, which constitute the main support mechanism of a mattress. Instead of being interconnected, each coil remains in its own track (pocket, really) and will compress without inhibidity by other coils around it. In other words, where there is more weight, the bed will feel firmer.

This is particularly applicable to areas where body weight is centralized when you are lying, especially around hips and shoulders. The coils in pockets are also intended to surpass those traditional in the moving isolation arena, which means that when you move, the individual coil takes the movement of heat and prevents the bed from reconstituting a small earthquake. With the interconnectivity of traditional coils, it is not necessary much to the feeling of movement to travel on the entire surface of the bed.