Are Purple Mattresses Cooling?
If you consider yourself in the hot sleepers “not-a-fan” club, you’re likely acquainted with poking your foot out the side of the bed and covers, or booting your blankets off entirely. Maybe, because your awakenings are frequent and you're becoming way too hot to stay in bed, you find yourself half awake, wanting to fall back asleep, but still sitting beside your fan for a few minutes for a chance to cool down.
But why do many people get so hot while they sleep?
Another question that often arises in this scenario is: Are cooling mattresses effective?
If you often wake up because you're too hot, sticky, or sweaty, you're not the only one. Many sleepers become overheated throughout the night, interrupting healthy and beneficial sleep cycles. Yet, many of the same people feel completely cool as they initially climb into bed, only to awaken some time later and feel super hot, or uncomfortably overheated. Some others will wake up feeling "drenched" due to an intense experience of night sweats.
So, what is the real reason why people sleep hot? The symptoms are often similar, but the cause of sleeping too hot varies depending on the person, considering a combination of aspects, like your health and specific factors that influence your sleep climate environment.
Regardless of the specific person, several explanations exist for why people may become overheated while sleeping, including the type of mattress and materials, hormonal fluctuations, and if you have medical conditions or use certain medications that cause symptoms like these. Other significant factors related to the sleep environment should also be considered, like the breathability of your mattress, sheets, and bedding.
To start, if you want to feel "cool as a cucumber" and easily fall asleep, the key now is to focus on staying asleep and remaining cool. If possible, you should try to determine the specific reason why you wake up feeling hot. Pinpointing the cause can help you discover new solutions, such as cooling sleep products. For instance, one of the best cooling materials on the market today is the Purple GelFlex Grid.
You will find that this gel grid material is cool to the touch while maximizing airflow potential, creating a comprehensive line-up of cooling, supportive, and pressure-relieving mattresses. You'll be pleased to know that the GelFlex Grid material is a component of every mattress model produced by Purple.
Regardless of the reason for your nighttime overheating, cooling mattresses—such as the Purple Restore Premier Hybrid—alongside cooling pillows and breathable bedding can help you manage your temperature issues and ease discomfort from temperature fluctuations over the long term.
How are Purple Mattresses Cooling?
Purple Mattresses present a proprietary GelFlex Grid—a ''waffle-like" gel material that's firm where you need it and soft where you want it. The GelFlex Grid allows for outstanding airflow, which prevents excess body heat from being trapped between you and your mattress. Compared to all-foam mattresses, which envelop and cradle you with dense comfort layers, allowing you to feel comfortable with adequate pressure relief. However, dense mattress layers or low-quality materials can sometimes be the culprit of trapped heat in the mattress, leading to uncomfortably hot and disrupted sleep.
The structure of the gel grid material, which is approximately 80% air and 20% gel polymer, creates a distinctly different feeling mattress, with a low surface-area exterior that encourages breathability and dissipates heat more effectively than traditional gel foams or memory foams.
So, is a Purple mattress cooling? The answer is clear: upgrading to a Purple mattress can lead you to nights of cooler, uninterrupted, and satisfying sleep for many years to come.
How the GelFlex Grid Keeps Your Mattress Cool
Purple Mattresses have the potential to remain cool due to their comfort layers, which are the layers closest to the surface of the mattress. Purple Innovations developed and integrated the gel grid into a mattress for several reasons: to provide the utmost breathability compared to most other mattress materials, while delivering sufficient comfort through pressure-point and joint pressure relief, and support through proper spine alignment for sleep.
Airflow Capability
One benefit of Purple's GelFlex Grid is that it encourages airflow, breathability, and heat dispersion through its air channels.
By promoting better airflow and preventing trapped heat in your mattress, sheets, or bedding, you can achieve a more comfortable sleep experience and enjoy many more nights where you feel and remain cooler due to a more balanced sleep climate temperature.
Dissipation of Excess Body Heat
When excess body heat can escape from between you and your mattress or from your sleep environment, it prevents excess warmth from building up inside the mattress throughout the night, leading to a more restful sleep. With Purple's proprietary GelFlex Grid technology, not only is it firm where you need it and soft where you want it, but it also offers unparalleled cooling relief and healthy support for neutral spine alignment, which is beneficial for restful sleep.
With a Purple mattress featuring airflow and cooling technology, you'll be eager to answer the next time your spouse or friend asks, "How'd you sleep?" Because you'll know the answer is "In fact, I slept great!"
Breathable Layers + Hybrid Mattress Design
Purple utilizes the GelFlex Grid, a material composed of a hyper-elastic polymer. This component is a gel-like, super-stretchy, and pliable material, yet it is still innately breathable.
Integrated into an innovative hybrid mattress design, Purple Hybrids combine their proprietary GelFlex Grid layer with a supportive, responsive, and contouring independent coil support system. The structure of a Purple mattress is designed to be high-performance, fostering exceptional muscle tension and pressure alleviation, along with push-back support and superior airflow capabilities.
The GelFlex Grid provides a feeling of "firm and soft where you need it" from its cozy gel-cushion layers that boost comfort and joint-pressure relief. The independent coils inside the hybrid design of a Purple mattress provide ease of movement, such as changing positions or getting in and out of bed. The independent coil system also provides added longevity with durable yet beneficial coils, as well as cooling properties through breathable ventilation within the mattress.
Overall, the proprietary material and hybrid design as a whole offer benefits from its unique qualities and other subtle characteristics—this is why Purple boasts about its airflow properties, which facilitate a more thermoregulated and cool sleeping surface.
Why Purple Mattresses are Ideal for Hot Sleepers
Next, you might still be asking yourself: Even when it's seemingly cold, why do I wake up feeling so hot while I sleep?
Suppose you feel that your home or bedroom is at an ideal temperature so that you won’t get too hot, but you still wake up feeling sticky or drenched in a "pool of sweat". In the case of unwanted sleep disruptions caused by overheating, you may be dealing with an unsatisfactory mattress that has a steady decline in quality, lacking cooling or breathability-focused components or materials. To upgrade your sleep and boost airflow and temperature-regulation potential, don't hesitate to consider a Purple mattress. They are arguably one of the coolest sleeping mattresses on the market today.
If You Don't Snooze, You Lose: Shop Purple at Mattress World Northwest!
If your sleep quality is lacking, don't be "too cool for school"—or sleep—and delve deeper into exploring some of the best cooling mattresses today. Breathable and cooling Purple mattresses are on display for you to see for yourself the difference this proprietary GelFlex Grid can make. And as the saying goes, "If you snooze, you lose," but when it comes to sleep, the mattress and sleep specialists prefer to emphasize that "If you don't snooze, you'll certainly lose."
At your one-stop sleep shop, Mattress World Northwest, you can see, feel, and try most versions of the Purple Mattress, firm and soft versions are available. Sleep accessories like Purple pillows, Purple sheets, and Purple mattress protectors are the “icing on the cake” for your cooling sleep system, along with a Purple adjustable bed.
Now here’s a bold statement: it’s certainly more beneficial to buy a Purple mattress in-store versus online. At least in a mattress company showroom, you can actually feel, see, and "try-before-you-buy," with other perks—like fast delivery.
Purple's traditional versions—the Rejuvenate collection—along with their innovative Hybrid mattresses, are on display at Mattress World Northwest, such as:
At Mattress World Northwest, a local, family-owned and operated mattress shop with 25 locations within the Portland-Metro area and the Willamette Valley, you can finally "keep your cool" and enjoy satisfying sleep once again with a new Purple mattress!
