Are you tossing and turning all night long and you certainly have no wish to get up and start the day with a smile? One of the possible reasons is that your body is unable to relax as you can’t find a comfortable position to sleep in, one that would be supportive in all the right places such as knees, hip, belly and neck. One possible solution to this problem is to buy a memory foam mattress – however this is an expensive option, so why not considering using a memory foam pillow, mattress topper, or a memory foam sofa sleeper mattress in the instead ?

Designed for NASA in the 1970’s, memory foam was to provide comfortable support for astronauts at ascend and landing, it failed to become available in the shops until the 1990’s. Since that time the market has grown and is still growing rapidly, especially as the sphere of medicine recommends its use for relieving back pain and pressure sores. Regardless of the fact that the first producer was Tempurpedic ® and used mostly in hospitals, the firm eventually found out that people who used the foam, slept better, and they expanded manufacture to be available to everyone. Since that time other manufacturers have designed their own memory foam goods . The most powerful producers now appear to be China and the Far East, but be cautious of foam products made outside of the United States.

How does it give you help to sleep? Memory foam is visco-elastic and that means that it responds to temperature change by growing softer when it is hot and firmer when it is cool . That means that your body heat softens the corresponding area of memory foam and it moulds to lines of your body. A word of warning here - with the cheaper, lower density foams, the foam can become as hard as a board when the it is really cold or it might turn into soft goo on hot summer nights. The more expensive brands guarantee that they will perform correctly through a wide range of temperatures.

If you’re still not quite sure why not try a foam pillow or a memory foam topper for instance. Most producers offer a wide choice of goods and the most progressive ones will offer a trial period and longer warranties too so that if the item doesn’t suit you, you can return it back.

How to choose a memory foam mattress? There are differences in the way they are made so it is important to get to know from a retailer how they are constructed and which kind of construction will suit you best. Rule of thumb - mattresses can either have three or four inches of memory foam over a denser supportive layer . More thickness isn’t inevitably right either as you can sink in too far before reaching the core! If you sleep on your front you need to get 2 inch (5cm approx.) foam, those who sleep on side and medium sized people should buy a foam memory mattress with three inch (7.5cm approx) foam and large people or those who sleep on their back should buy the four inch (10cm approx).

There are of benefits but what about the unpleasant moments ? Why memory foam failed to be used by NASA? Foam is an artificial product that gives off gases when new . In your home it lasts for a very short period of time, but might have been dangerous in a space ship ! Nevertheless, if you are sensitive to this kind of gas, you should consider searching for a natural product like a foam latex mattress.

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