Hi Sarah,

Thanks for getting in touch about the best soft feel mattress. Soft feel mattresses can give you that sleeping on a cloud feeling of sinking into deep layers. Perfect for people who like to be enveloped and hugged by their mattress during the night.

However, most people wrongly assume that this feeling is created by a soft spring tension. This can lead to buying a mattress that causes nights of disturbed awkward sleep. So we're here to help you choose the right spring tension and comfort of your mattress to avoid this costly mattress mistake.

Bed Spring Tensions Explained:

Mattress comfort such as soft, medium or firm is provided by the upholstery layer and not the spring tension. The spring tension should always be chosen on your weight. If you pick the spring tension alone to provide the feel the issue you quickly run into is either a complete lack of support or a mattress that's providing to much support. Both of these lead to awkward uncomfortable sleeping positions during the night.

The spring tension should always be selected based on your bodyweight. Then its the job of the upholstery layers on top of this that will provide you with a soft feel mattress, not the spring tension. For example, a soft 1.2 spring tension is only suitable for people 8 stone and under, for people heavier than that it will compress to quickly and cause you to sleep at an awkward position during the night.

Have a look below at the bodyweight and spring tension table for clarity on the tension you should be choosing.

Mattress upholstery for a soft feel mattress:

If you're looking for a super soft feel mattress then its important to look at the mattress upholstery details of any model you're considering. You need to know the exact grams per square meter of fibres and what type of fibres they are. This is because certain fibres, like Wool. Alpaca and Bamboo are softer than Horsehair, Coir or Flax for example.

It also depends on how these fibres are layered and in which order. Horsetail can help provide support for softer fibres to stop them compressing or settling unduly, however, horsetail as a top upholstery layer will provide a firmer feel. It can feel rather confusing we admit to those who haven't been making mattresses for years! The good news is we disclose exactly what's in all of our mattresses and can recommend our softest feel mattresses.

Softest Feel Mattress:

For the softest feel mattress have a look at our Artisan Luxury hand made mattress model. Featuring 4600GSM of 100% natural fibres including super soft cotton and wool as the top layer.

Artisan Luxury Mattress Composition

1: 1200 GSM BRITISH FLEECE WOOL AND COTTON

2: HAIRPROOF CAMBRIC COVER

3: 1200GSM PURE HORSEHAIR

4: 500GSM PURE WOOL

5: 1200GSM PURE HORSETAIL

6: 500GSM PURE WOOL

7: 1476 CALICO ENCASED POCKET SPRINGS [51MM] [1.42MM]

TOTAL: 4600GSM

DEPTH: 27-30CM

CHEMICAL FREE COVER

How to tell which mattress materials give what feelings?

Have a look below at our handy table to see how each fibre compares both in feel and price when choosing a new mattress.

We hope that helps and gives you further mattress buying guidance. If you have any more mattress related questions please get back in touch on info@localhost or 0161 437 4419.

Sleep well
John & Ryan