Memory Foam info / Buyers guide

What is Memory Foam made of?

It’s from the same family as synthetic polyurethane foam (traditional foam that you find in mattresses and seating and which has been around for a generation), but you add certain chemicals which add weight and density, and which in turn create a different molecular structure to that of traditional foam.

It’s a complex formula, and what you get is a temperature-sensitive foam that is more viscous than traditional foam, and which has a completely different ‘feel’. If your memory foam mattress or mattress topper or pillow is in a cold bedroom room, then it will firm up. But once your body warmth is in contact with its surface, it’s only a matter of a minute before the visco reacts and accepts your body’s pressure points and positions you in a gravity friendly state. That is the quality of visco elastic memory foam … it reacts positively to your body warmth and softens and molds.

Whereas tradition or conventional foam quickly returns to its original shape after being compressed, visco elastic memory foam will take many seconds to return to its original shape and this is the property that is desirable to many. Memoryfoam tends to mold and form around your body’s pressure points, and doesn’t have the same rebound properties that traditional foam does. In other words you nestle into it, rather than rest on it.

Of course you should be mindful that you CAN purchase less-expensive high quality traditional foams that are beautifully soft and supportive, and provide years and years of ongoing comfort and support. It’s purely in the ‘feel’ that memory foam mattresses and mattresses toppers and memory foam pillows are sought after in these times. A personal thing, and there’s a lot of sales hype that goes with memory foam, and that’s why you have to know what you are getting before you purchase it, and is it going to be right for your ongoing comfort needs.

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