If you have a king size bed, then buying a memory foam mattress in king size could be the one thing that changes your bed from providing a decent level of comfort into one that drastically improves your down-time. Otherwise known as sleep.

Memory Foam Mattress King Size

If you’re about to buy a new mattress, consider a memory foam mattress in king size. That is ... providing you've actually got a king sized bed. You don’t need to suffer from a sleep disorder or experience back problems to justify buying one.

I had one for a number of years and can attest to the improved comfort that manufacturers claim to offer. I’m now reduced to a simple memory foam topper but I’d rather have that than a basic foam mattress or run of the mill box-spring type.

A lot of people are a little suspicious of splashing that bit extra on a memory foam mattress in general, but I suspect it’s related to the hype. Whenever something appears as the best thing since sliced bread, it’s natural to assume it may not actually do what it says on the box.

Of course many consumers will buy anything because the hype is so attention grabbing. And more so if the new wonder product is surrounded by claims that it will improve/enhance/cure our ailments and lives in general. Miracle diet pills anyone … buy 100 get 10 free? Guaranteed to at least make you think you're going to shrink ...

Memory Foam Benefits

A memory foam mattress is not only a means of creating comfort whilst you slumber, it’s also an investment. And no, I don’t mean the financial kind. I’m not aware that second hand mattresses accrue value. Do they?

By investment I mean your general health and wellbeing. Investing in you doesn’t have a price - unless you call ill-health a cost? - but that doesn’t remove the fact that it’s an asset. Your health may not be tangible, you may not be able to box it up and sell it. But - last time I looked – the importance of your health was right up there with ‘quality of life’.

Both are intrinsically linked and as far as I’m concerned, when I sleep well, I feel well. Pure math.

Memory Foam

A king size memory foam mattress is obviously made from memory foam. It’s not a new invention and stems from NASA’s research into providing better comfort for seating on aircraft. It’s a thicker form of mattress than comparable non-memory foam types and many find that it aids sleep disorders, soothes back ailments and make those that suffer from arthritic or rheumatic complaints more comfortable.

Obviously, in recent years, memory foam anything burst into our consciousness, thanks to the world of media. Accompanied with the pre-requisite hype of course. For me, that’s what usually puts me off buying the latest parade of wonderful, life enhancing gadgets/toys/miracle underwear from infomercial sites like ‘As Seen On Tv’. Call me a cynic but you know, all that toothy grinning and buy buy buy stuff makes me a tad suspicious.

I don’t know about you but - you can’t deny that their main interest isn’t in you. It’s in your money. However, memory foam really is a cool invention and even cooler to sleep on. Well, maybe not cool, I’d say comfortable.

This is how memory foam works: it distributes weight, as evenly as possible. A standard mattress supports your weight. A foam memory mattress still does that, but it also spreads it out, along the surface on which you’re laid. Memory foam contains an open cell composition that allows it to absorb heat plus weight – it reacts by moulding to the shape of your body.

Thus making you feel more comfortably supported.

Memory Foam Mattress - Before You Buy

Don’t rush off and buy a memory foam mattress in king size, single size or any size. Consider your options. Go and test a few. Ask around or find out more information about them. Anytime I’ve come to a stage whereby I may need to part with a lump of my hard earned cash, I’ve never bought the first thing I’ve come across - in order to satisfy a need.

I’ve always looked at what’s available and balanced what it is I need against cost/ quality/ use and longevity. There’s no reason you shouldn’t do the same.

Sleep well.