Purple mattresses are a unique feeling, an excellent choice if you're interested in managing back pain and improving your sleep quality. While taking a look at the advantages and disadvantages, there are numerous benefits and few downsides to sleeping on a Purple mattress. Purple mattresses are made by a reliable manufacturer, Purple Innovations, which originally designed a range of comfort products before integrating its specific technology—the GelFlex Grid system—into exceptionally comfortable and temperature-neutral mattresses.

According to a specific sleep lab center, The Sleep Doctor, the original Purple mattress neutralizes body heat in a way that far exceeds the ability of many other foam mattresses on the market to balance body temperature. Additionally, unlike many innerspring and some memory foam mattresses, the OG Purple Mattress and the Purple Hybrids are noise-free and feel substantial even with significant weight bearing down on the mattress.

Like all-foam or other memory foam hybrid designs, including Purple Hybrid models that utilize coils, you can still expect little to no bounce factor, or motion across the sleep surface, such as feeling your partner moving or getting in or out of the bed.

What's Behind The Name: Purple?

We all recognize purple as a vibrant color, but have you wondered how the name "Purple" for a mattress came to be? The story behind their name is almost just as intriguing as the regal shade itself!

The Pearce brothers, founders of the original company, chose the name "Purple" to symbolize royalty and to signify their commitment to providing premium treatment for all of their customers. From that day forward, the Pearce brothers aimed to offer their valued customers a unique, royal experience that would distinguish them from many other mainstream mattress companies.

Today, Purple has done just that, setting itself apart from other manufacturers by leveraging its proprietary mattress comfort technology, using a catchy and clever name with a story behind it, and a customer-focused mentality. Their fun and engaging mattress commercials have also certainly put them in the unique mattress brand limelight. Purple's company leaders and other mattress-making professionals now associate the color purple and the Purple mattress with an elegant, luxurious, and admirable experience.

Mattress Brands: What's All The Hype About Purple?

The earliest mattress design, now called Purple Essential, consists of a base foam layer with additional comfort foams and the GelFlex Grid on top. The Purple Essentials include Purple's original, flagship model, which is a coil-free model, unlike their later hybrid mattress designs, like the Purple Restore and Rejuvenate.

Today, each mattress made by Purple features a proprietary comfort material called GelFlex Grid technology. This waffle-like pattern, made of super-stretchy, durable, gel-like, hyperelastic polymer, is an intentionally designed comfort material that inverts to relieve pressure when weight is applied, providing a "firm where you need it and soft where you don't" form of instant mattress surface contouring.

This high-performance mattress design does it all— firmly and responsively supporting the shape and weight of your back and body. The Purple Grid's makeup is 80% air and 20% super-durable hyperelastic polymer, which reduces the surface area pressing up against your body, thereby reducing pressure points and helping keep the temperature neutralized. The structure of a Purple mattress with the GelFlex Grid effectively helps hot sleepers "beat the heat" by preventing excess body heat from building up between the sleeper and the mattress surface.

How Does a Purple Mattress Feel?

First off, just find a Mattress World NW and try one! Nevertheless, Purple offers several models that provide you with a selection of comfort levels, or mattress firmnesses— from slightly contouring mattress surfaces with resistance and minimal "sinkage," to relatively conforming plush mattresses that have plenty of give to cradle the curves of your body while supporting proper sleep posture and neutral spine alignment.

One of the most impressive aspects of the Purple mattress is its ability to maintain a balanced temperature, thanks to the Purple GelFlex Grid, which feels remarkably cool once you lie down on it. From personal experience, the sleep specialists at Mattress World Northwest vouch that Purple's gel grid technology alleviates pressure from targeted areas like the hips, lower back, and shoulders. Unlike many foam options, Purple mattresses, especially their hybrid models, don't tend to trap body heat and stay incredibly cool throughout the night.

The distinctive composition of Purple mattresses provides reliability, stability, and a low bounce factor relative to high-quality mattresses. Purple Restore Hybrid and Rejuvenate are the clear winners for sturdy, stable, and noiseless mattresses. When you lie on a Purple Rejuvenate mattress with someone else, you'll hardly notice any motion transfer, or movements from one person changing positions on one side of the mattress to the other. Like King-sized beds, this type of mattress is perfect for couples.

Mattress Hype: Is a Purple Mattress Actually Worth It?

The Purple Gelflex Grid is an advanced, high-performance comfort technology built into a mattress. Is it worth it? The sleep specialists at Mattress World Northwest think so! Purple Innovations manufactures mattresses that deliver exceptional support and comfort value, complemented by Purple's "royal treatment" customer service policy.

Still, you should definitely try the mattress before you buy it, which is why many of the once online-only mattress companies, such as Purple, have more recently started showcasing their mattresses in retail stores. With this approach to mattress shopping, once you try-before-you-buy at a local shop like Mattress World Northwest, you can confidently decide which Purple mattress, foundation, and frame meets your personal needs in the best way possible.

From One to Many: The Evolution of the Purple Mattress

Purple’s OG mattress model, the Purple Mattress, now a part of Purple's Essentials line, is undoubtedly the most affordable and initially the only option. The original starter model is certainly not the most popular these days; Purple Innovations now presents a variety of styles and firmnesses, including coil-spring free mattresses with the gel-grid, and hybrid mattress models, which integrate coils for improved support and more reliable longevity.

Purple’s Restore and Rejuvenate mattress models, featuring a Hybrid coil system, provide enhanced support and a responsive contouring surface that's very easy to move on. The Hybrid models are evolved specifically from the original Purple mattress; they more effectively alleviate pressure, balance, and support body weight, making them suitable for all sleeping positions, including stomach sleeping, and individuals weighing over 225 pounds.

Overall, Purple mattresses are well worth it if you're looking to improve your sleep quality and stay cool while you sleep. Still, you'll want to consider your body type and sleep preferences, as Purple Hybrid models, compared to their Essentials collection, will support more weight and are much more durable. Overall, compared to all-foam mattresses, hybrid designs from Purple or other mattress brands offer sleepers an improved sensation of buoyancy and ease of motion when getting in or out of bed.

Key Takeaways: Pros and Cons of Purple

Overall, the design and proprietary technology behind Purple mattresses offer a great solution to help you achieve better sleep health, especially if you prefer a cooling mattress and consider yourself a hot sleeper. 

Nevertheless, when shopping for a mattress, keep in mind that most brands have pros and cons that apply subjectively to each individual.

Purple Pros

• Provides balanced and reliable support for sleepers on or around 200-225lbs.
• The GelFlex Grid provides fast-responding conformability, delivering a "firm, yet soft" mattress that makes it easy to change positions.
• Purple offers sleeping surfaces featuring the GelFlex Grid for effective temperature regulation, achieved through their collaboration with foam and gel-grid technology—now known as Purple Essentials.

Purple Cons

• Unless you opt for a Hybrid or Rejuvenate model, Purple Essentials may not provide sufficient long-lasting support for sleepers weighing over 225lbs.
• Purple Essentials foam with gel-grid collaboration is not as long-lasting as their more expensive Hybrid Restore or Rejuvenate models.
• Purple Restore and Rejuvenate are slightly more expensive than a standard hybrid or all-foam mattress.

Sleep Like a Baby: Purple's Best Sellers at Mattress World Northwest

Now that you're familiar with the key features of quality mattress brands like Purple, you can make a more informed decision about mattress replacement and which new mattress to purchase for yourself or a loved one.

Next, feel free to visit a local, family-owned mattress showroom, such as Mattress World Northwest, one of the best places to shop, to see what the hype is about Purple mattresses! You'll have access to thoroughly try out mattresses and sleep accessories, like Purple Hybrids or Purple pillows, to see which ones personally fit and feel the best for you.

Mattress World Northwest, with numerous 5-Star reviews, showcases an extensive selection of Purple Sleep products, such as:

• Purple Pillows
• Purple Soft Stretch Sheets
• Purple Essentials
• Purple Restore Hybrids
• Purple Rejuvenate

At local and family-owned sleep shops like Mattress World Northwest, you have the opportunity to gain expert insights and increase your confidence in the significant choice of a new mattress, one that will impact your life, health, and wellness for years to come.

The truth is, Purple mattresses are worth it, provided they fit and feel right for you! So, don't hesitate to visit any of the 26 Mattress World Northwest locations, where our sleep specialists will guide you to more promising nights where you can "Sleep Like a Baby" with a new Purple mattress. If a Purple doesn’t satisfy you, don't worry! There's another, more satisfying mattress variety, professionally guided and personally selected by you!