Probably there are not many well-known companies such as Serta, Simmons and Tempurpedic, Restonic, producing mattresses that compete in terms of quality and cost. Moreover, the company produces most of the important types of mattresses that go to include innerspring, air, memory foam and latex. That’s something that not all big players can offer. Nevertheless, principally its business continues to be innerspring and here’s a review of the ComfortCare mattress from Restonic.
Perhaps just to maintain their survival in the competitive market, Restonic has had no option but to follow some of the latest technical innovations in producing specialist mattresses. And, that seems to have helped it cornering a big share of the market of certain kinds of mattresses. For example, at present it offers an air mattress as well as the Restonic Sleep Odyssey Magnet mattress. Simmons too offers the Luxaire air mattress, but none of the renowned manufacturers offers a magnetic mattress.
Quite like any other manufacturer, their main business continues to be the innerspring mattress and at present it offers the Restonic ComfortCare mattress. There’s a lot of twisted terminology, including meaningless terms and confusing words, though one can’t be sure if it’s intentional or the result of marketing hype. Anyway, here’s an attempt to make sense of what the consumer actually gets.
The manufacturers of ComfortCare claim to have developed their own ‘Marvellous Middle System’, designed to offer an additional 25% support in the middle of the mattress where it’s needed the most. There is nothing new in that as all quality innerspring mattresses are built with more springs in the middle. The Sealy Posturepedic mattress is equally guilty in puzzling the consumer. It claims that their Posturepedic offers correct orthopedic support that senses body motion and responds with improved support – as if the mattress had an onboard computer!
A new term that Restonic uses is the ’5-Zone Sleep System’. It simply means that springs are tactically aligned to offer the best support to areas like hips, neck and shoulders. Likewise, the other manufacturers use the term ‘correctly aligned’ springs.
What appeals is the SpiraLok Technology employed in the Restonic mattress. On the whole, it’s a stiff steel weave to hold the coils together. The manufacturer claims that it reduces transferring of motion, thus causing reduced disturbance to partner. In total contrast, the Simmons Beautyrest mattress employs pocketed coils wherein springs are not joined together but kept separate in their own fabric pocket. So, which is the correct methodology? I fail to understand how the deployment of a traditional innerspring mattress can reduce transferring of motion; pocketed coils help but they have shortcomings. The only way to eliminate disturbance caused due to the movement of one partner is to go for either latex or a memory foam mattress – both of which are offered by Simmons and Restonic.
Companies coin their own different words to describe the edges of mattresses. For instance, Restonic mentions using ‘Super Edge Plus Technology’ to ensure a firm edge; Sealy uses ‘Unicased Edge Design’; and Serta claims to be employing ‘Advanced Encasement Design’. Basically, they all are telling you the same thing- use of high-density foam encased around the edges of the mattress to cover the springs.
So, what makes the Restonic mattress different from other makes? Well, as far as springs and materials are concerned, it’s no different really. We are aware that 90% of mattresses are produced using springs from just one manufacturer. Simply put, irrespective of the brand you buy, the mattress is sure to have the same springs. Of course, the number of springs used may vary, but again all quality mattresses incorporate almost the same number.
All manufacturers are equally responsible for offering apparently different variety of mattresses, adding to the confusion of the consumers. The names of mattresses offered by different retailers may vary but the mattresses essentially remain the same. Restonic ComfortCare mattresses are available in three basic models; Firm; Plush and EuroTop, with Firm being the hardest and EuroTop being the softest.
Personally, having used both, a Sealy Posturepedic mattress and a Restonic, I couldn’t say for sure, which of the two was more comfortable. Further, I conducted some research involving users who bought and used both; it was impossible to ascertain which proved better in the long term.
Restonic mattress had one better feature and that was its price, just marginally lower than the other brand. Though ComfortCare is a fine mattress that certainly offers value for money, I wouldn’t award it the label of being the best innerspring available in the market.