- Tuft & Needle’s Mint Mattress improves on the online brand’s popular original mattress by adding more support, breathability, and coziness throughout.
- Since switching to this mattress almost a year ago, I’ve fallen asleep faster and stayed asleep for longer; the top-most layer combines the contouring comfort and pressure relief of memory foam with the breathability and bounciness of latex.
- Right now, you can save 15% on the Mint Mattress and up to 30% on other products from Tuft & Needle. There are no exclusions except for gift cards, and no discount code needed.
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In the last 10 months, my punctuality at work and social events have taken a dip. It’s not because of train delays or because I lost my watch. It’s just so much harder getting out of bed now that I’m sleeping on Tuft & Needle’s Mint Mattress.
It’s the second mattress from Tuft & Needle, which has three mattresses in total. It’ll quickly wrap you up in its soft and comfortable embrace. If you want to try to get work done while sitting in this bed, here’s my recommendation: don’t. My experience with the mattress is that you’ll simply end up horizontal, slumped into an impromptu nap.
Read on for details of my Mint Mattress experience, from initial set-up to night after night of sweet slumber.
The Tuft & Needle Mint Mattress is a follow-up to a customer favorite
The Mint mattress is an upgrade from the company's best-selling original mattress, a 10-inch, medium-firm mattress with almost 6,000 five-star reviews on Amazon and more than 100,000 total reviews on the Tuft & Needle website.
Comparatively, the Mint Mattress is a little thicker at 12 inches tall, but also softer, cooler, and better for pressure relief. The company recommends the Mint if you're a side sleeper or you run hot while sleeping. With more support on its sides, the Mint is also good if you often sit on the edge of your bed.
Unpacking and setting up the Mint Mattress was quick and easy, but carrying 66 pounds up four flights of stairs wasn't
The mattress comes rolled up and packed tightly in a box. I tested the Full size, which weighed 66 pounds and admittedly wasn't fun to carry up the stairs of my fourth-floor walk-up (another set of hands will definitely help if you live in a similar situation). However, once I got the mattress up to my room, the rest of the set-up process was much easier.
After I cut through the plastic wrap, the mattress unfurled and rose to its full size. Though the company says there may be a new mattress smell, I personally didn't notice one. Regardless, this potential smell is a result of the packaging process, not chemicals. The mattress is CertiPUR-US and Greenguard Gold certified, so it's free from harmful chemicals and gases.
The Mint Mattress is comfortable, supportive, and breathable
I positioned the mattress on my new Zinus bed frame, threw on one of my favorite sheet sets, and slept on it that same night. Tuft & Needle gives you 100 nights to test out its mattresses risk-free. If you don't end up liking it, you'll get a free refund and the company will also coordinate free pickup and send it to a donation location of your choice.
I, for one, never returned my Mint Mattress. It's incredibly comfortable, supportive, and adaptive to both the way my body moves and the changing temperatures of my room.
The mattress features Tuft & Needle's signature Adaptive Foam, which contours to your body and provides pressure relief like memory foam but is also breathable and bouncy like latex. This top-layer construction combines all the features many sleepers look for and is what also makes the original mattress and its Pouch bean bag chair so invitingly comfortable.
In the Mint Mattress, the Adaptive Foam is further enhanced by 30% more graphite, which maximizes its cooling abilities. Meanwhile, "open-cell foam technology" allows air to flow freely through the mattress and improves breathability, so you won't overheat like you would on a memory foam mattress.
Even as the weather got exponentially hotter during the summer, my body hasn't while sleeping on this mattress. It has a soft and thick knit cover with a bit of texture you can feel through your sheets - cozy and comforting, and something that sounds perfect for colder temperatures. But surprisingly, this cover doesn't get overwhelming or hot in the summer, and that's because of the rest of the mattress' cooling and breathable design.
Between the Adaptive Foam layer and base layer, there's a transition layer filled with gel beads that add more support. The base layer is the most firm and gives better edge support. Instead of sinking downwards every time I roll too close to the edge or I perch on my bed putting on my shoes, the mattress seems unaffected by the shift in weight.
The core of the mattress is of course also supportive. I sleep in all sorts of positions (side, stomach, back), and each feels comfortable. I've found that I'm also able to rest on my side for long periods of time than on my previous mattress. If you sleep with a partner, the mattress is firm and adaptive enough that you won't disturb the entire bed when you reposition yourself or get out of bed early in the morning. Overall, the mattress simply feels stable yet comforting, which is exactly what you want to collapse into at the end of a long day.
The bottom line
My first introduction to Tuft & Needle was its Pouch bean bag chair, which remains one of my favorite products I've ever tested. I shouldn't have been surprised that its flagship mattress would be a hit too. From the very first night, it proved to be supportive, breathable, and comfortable, and it's been consistently so in the year months I've been testing it.