Mattress Forum

If I had it to do over I would go with the Dunlop. For me Talalay was too pushy and jiggly. At the softer ILDs it never felt stable enough to provide adequate support. At the firmer ILDs it exerted so much pressure on my body I ached all over. This experience really surprised me having slept on Dunlop latex for many years prior to getting a Talalay bed, and having loved it. Dunlop will give you much better support at much softer ILDs. While I wouldn't go so far as to say it feels like PU foam--it's still rubber--like PU, it is passive rather than active in that it has a less demanding resilience to it. I found the SleepEZ 10,000 Talalay mattress in the medium/firm/xtra firm configuration to be so resilient it was painful. I would ask Shawn how that configuration would correspond to Dunlop.

You do get one comfort exchange with SleepEZ, so for you, try the firmer configuration first. Especially if you like sitting up in bed reading. For youR mom, I would definitely go with the Dunlop in the soft/medium/firm configuration. 24 ILD Dunlop should be plenty soft for a top layer yet still support someone of her weight, and the passive nature of Dunlop won't feel so radically different than the foam mattress she is sleeping on now like the Talalay would.

Good luck. 

Happy to help. Let us know how the SleepEZ Dunlop mattresses work out for you.

I've been lurking here for a while, and after weighing the positive and negative comments from various posters, and taking into account the money I have to spend, I've decided to buy SleepEz 8500 latex matresses for my mother and myself.</p><p>What's holding me back is the decision between Dunlop and Talalay Blended 65/35.  I've gotten the impression that Dunlop is more favored here, yet the guy I spoke to at SleepEz talked up the Talalay. (They're the same price, so the cost would be the same for me.)</p><p>I'm 5'10&quot; and weigh 180-185 lbs and sleep on my side. I also sit in bed a lot reading and watching TV. I think medium (30-32 ILD) | firm (38-40 ILD) | extra firm (44 ILD) layers would probably be right for me, and since Dunlop has been favored on this forum, and is supposed to be good at those firmnesses, I'm leaning towards going with Dunlop.</p><p>My mother is 5'3&quot;, weighs 105 lbs, sleeps on her side, and is elderly. She's accustomed to sleeping on a 25-year-old &quot;Sears-o-pedic Imperial Elite&quot; that's almost entirely polyurethane (even the &quot;box spring&quot; is PU!). I was thinking that for her I might get something softer and hence get Talalay, but I read a post that said Dunlop is closer in feel to PU.</p><p>Any thoughts on whether the Dunlop latex would be preferable for the both of us?</p><p>Philly888