Leggett & Platt supports the studies done by Kansas State University’s Institute for Environmental Research saying that in warmer climates and environments or during the hot summer months, an innerspring mattress offer better cooling capacity than a memory foam or an air mattress. The studies reveal that innerspring mattresses “dissipate heat approximately 28 percent* better than non-innerspring sleep surfaces. “

According to Leggett & Platt’s engineer/physicist, “In our analysis of this testing data, we found that innerspring mattresses encourage evaporative heat dissipation nearly one-third better than visco-foam or air chamber sleep surfaces, therefore offering the coolest sleeping environment of the three.”

Why is this piece of information important to us? Because as further studies have revealed, when our body temperature rises because of heat, we will have a hard time getting sleep and relaxing in bed. Staying cooler will help us go into a deeper slumber better.

This is something to consider the next time we think of shopping for a new mattress.

Via Bedroom Magazine

Once a company who is a known OEM supplier to bedding manufacturers, South Bay International has decided to join mattress retailing by offering an exclusive line of mattresses made with memory foam. The new produce is debuting at the Las Vegas Market this week.

Says Peter Tarquino, its president and CEO

“We have become advocates for ensuring the integrity of memory foam products. We feel that many visco-elastic foam products are being adulterated and degraded due to the fact that some foam companies use fillers that adversely affect the unique characteristics of the memory foam, and therefore produce an inferior product.”

The company’s main operation is in China and it is said to produce 2,000 mattress daily.

The new product will be called the Sleep Science collection and a separate memory foam mattress line for children called ViscoKids, will also be out in the market.

Via Bedding Today

Chilipad has been featured on this site before. It’s this revolutionary mattress accessory that aids in keeping the bed cooler and much more ideal for sleep.

Recently, the company behind Chilipad has announced it will be coming up with a new line of organic Chilipad mattresses which both have cooling and warming capacities. This is their alternative offer to electric heating pads that may unknowingly be hazardous and unsafe.

The new line is scheduled to debut in 2009.

Via Bedroom Magazine

Restonic is adding a couple of specialty bedding lines to their current line up of eco-friendly beds as well as their Magnetic bedding line up.

The new eco-friendly model, called Blue Bed, is constructed with both the company’s own developed product, the Eco Foam, and a polyurethane-based foam mattress containing natural plant oils.

The magnetic mattress set called Sleep Vitality, is an innerspring mattress with foam-encased pocket coil, which is priced lower than its previous models.

Via Furniture Today

New Classic Sleep Products from Dormia, priced at $699-$1,599 are unveiling at this week’s Las Vegas Market, suprisingly after the company has filed for bankruptcy only recently.

The new collection is said to made of “premium European biodegradable Lyocell cover” and visco elastic memory foam.

The company has named the new line as Classic (8 inches), Ultra (10 inches) and Celebration (14 inches) and is of the compressed type, to save on shipping cost.

Other than this, the company is also introducing a new line of thermo-regulating eco friendly mattresses.

The complete details are on Furniture Info.