An off-putting feature of some brands of memory foam mattress is that they can emit a rather pungent, chemical odour. Essentia’s range of natural latex memory foam mattresses, however, are all constructed without glue or adhesive and are guaranteed to release no toxic chemicals or emissions.

The top-of-the-range model is the excellent ‘Dormeuse,’ which boasts three different layers of memory foam and a six-zone natural reflex support layer, providing sumptuous comfort and excellent support simultaneously. Despite being luxuriously pliable, it’s also very resilient, recovering its shape 72% faster than many other memory foam mattresses.

It slowly moulds to the contours of your body, yielding to shoulders and hips but supporting the curves of the spine. Ideal mattress for anyone who suffers with back, beck or shoulder pain, the unique natural memory foam also breathes 80% better than traditional memory foam, guaranteeing a comfortable night’s sleep that never gets too warm. It’s not cheap at $5,000 for a double, but it’s certainly good.

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The Sealy RPC 7000 combines the most advanced spring technology with a deep layer of memory foam at the top to really deliver a sumptuous and physically supportive night’s sleep.

Barrel-shaped pocket springs – Sealy’s Mirrorform Reflex Pocket system – are individually encased in fabric sheaths, and are engineered to have 9 turns each (that’s 30% more wire than the average bed spring), ensuring just the right combination of yield and push. The mattress is constructed with five support zones, with the springs in the central region being more flexible, giving you extra support.

This mattress, to borrow a phrase from Goldilocks, is ‘just right’: the memory foam responds to your body temperature, moulding itself supportively to your contours, and the pocketed springs provide flexible resilience. Together, they ensure that you’ll spend every night in the land of nod, rather than lying awake counting endless sheep.

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We all know that memory foam mattresses are meant to be the best, but that’s only true if it’s combined with other mattress technology. Lying on a pure memory foam mattress feels just a bit too much like being slowly eaten by a giant marshmallow for it to be entirely comfortable. The excellent range of mattresses from Dormeo are much, much better.

Take the Dormeo 2+12. It has a 2cm layer of high-tech, NASA-engineered visco-elastic memory foam added to its 12cm core, which despite fully yielding under compression always ‘remembers’ to return fully to its former shape. Its thermal sensitivity makes it firmer at cooler temperatures and softer when it’s warmer.

The core of the mattress adapts perfectly to your body contours without the faintest hint of developing pressure points and the unique cell structure makes for superb ventilation. It never gets too hot. Get a weightless night’s sleep with Dormeo at Dormeo.co.uk.

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It’s an unpleasant fact of life that most of us are sharing our beds with other living creatures; not the snoring heap beside you hogging the duvet, but the countless dust mites and other wildlife which slip in uninvited (these can include moulds, fungi, and bacteria).

If the thought of this sends a quiver of hysteria down your spine, consider the excellent ‘Ergo-Flex’ range of hypoallergenic Visco-Elastic memory foam mattresses. These mattresses use an anti-microbial compound in the foam, which keeps these unwelcome critters and bugs at bay – and prevents the allergic reactions they often provoke.

They are high density orthopaedic pressure-reducing mattresses, which mould to the contours of your body in response to your temperature and support your spine in all the places where it really counts. The 5 layer ‘cool sleep’ air flow technology means you’ll never get too hot, and the mattresses won’t deteriorate or discolour. Pure slumbering luxury.

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‘Talalay’ latex is just about the finest polymer available for mattress manufacture, affording a resilient but luxurious feel. They’re highly durable, mould readily to your body’s contours and they’re breathable, which ensures that you don’t overheat.

John Lewis Superior 3 Latex Memory Mattress skilfully fuses different mattress technologies to produce the ultimate sleeping experience. It features no less than 1450 highly responsive foam encapsulated pocket springs, which distribute your weight evenly, and the filling is composed of three different materials: a silk and wool pad, a latex foam layer and a memory foam layer.

The combination is simply sumptuous but there’s a pleasing resilience as well. Some foam mattresses give you the distinct sensation of sinking slowly into a huge blancmange, but not with the Superior 3. It comes in at $1400 for a Double and $1750 for a Kingsize and should give you many years of luscious, restful sleep. Priceless.

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A good deal of excess tiredness is simply and plainly down to not sleeping well at night. Most people have worries which keep them awake from time to time, but one thing that’s guaranteed to generate interminable insomnia is an old, clapped out mattress.

The New Horizon Premier Airflow Mattress uses memory foam to meld into your body’s contours, supporting you sumptuously at the points of maximum pressure (and, usually, maximum discomfort) along your spine, your shoulders and your hips. But that’s not all: it also features specially designed corrugated air channels to the memory foam top layer, enhancing comfort by easy airflow through the mattress as you sleep.

And for those who feel that memory foam is ingesting them like a giant amoeba, there’s an added bounce – a 5cm middle layer of resilient LayTec – that ensures the right mix of luxurious softness and springy resistance. Sweet dreams are a-comin’.

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If you thought that Tempur was the cutting edge in mattress design, think again. Komfi’s Zen range takes mattress technology to a new level. Using a groundbreaking new innovation known as the ‘Vertikal Foam System’, the company uses a series of vertical foam columns in its mattresses which dispense with the upward force of springs but supply ample support and pressure-relief to the sleeping body’s contours.

Above the Vertikal Foam tubes sits a sumptuous layer of hypoallergenic memory foam, and the two layers are enveloped by a beautiful bamboo cover. Bamboo was chosen because it keeps you cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

The pebble design on the mattress surface isn’t just an artistic touch, although it does look beautiful: it’s a carefully devised functional design, engineered to enhance blood circulation to your pressure points (joints, neck and shoulders). And each pebble has unique cooling fibres inside it, facilitating excellent ventilation around your body. Can’t sleep? Go Zen!

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Good sleep is associated with good health, so getting the right mattress isn’t a trivial matter. If you want to wake up feeling truly rested and ready to face the day, rather than crabby and cranky and longing for more sleep, you’d do well to think about what mattress suits you. Especially if you suffer from significant back pain, the Sealy-Back in Action Mirrorform mattress could well by your route to sweet dreams.

It comes with a 2.5cm-thick top layer, grooved to promote air circulation, beneath which is a 7.7cm-thick ‘slow action’ layer, which maintains excellent pressure relief while you’re asleep and helps you turn over easily. The final ‘reflex’ layer is designed to transmit minimal disturbance through the mattress between partners. Add to that the ‘Outlast’ temperature and climate control which ensures a cooler sleep surface and the zip removable washable cover, and you’ve got a mattress which will make insomnia a thing of the past.

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Memory foam has undoubtedly been a major innovation in the field of mattress design, but it’s not to everyone’s taste. There’s an unnerving sensation which some of us experience akin to being slowly ingested by a massive phagocyte – one of those giant, pillow-like cells that ate Donald Sutherland in the famous 1960’s movie Fantastic Voyage.

If you’d like to retain the sumptuous pliability of memory foam but preserve the firm security of knowing that there are real bed-springs at work somewhere underneath to prevent your total absorption, an excellent option is the Air Coniston Double Memory Foam Mattress.

It concentrates its ‘Trizone 3- phase spring system’ into the lumbar region of the mattress, and the rest is memory foam – you’ll sink blissfully in all the right regions and get firm support where it really matters. It’s a no-turn mattress, too, so you don’t have to perform those silly ‘He-Man’ antics anymore, either.

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A good indicator that your mattress may be nearing the end of its useful life might be the physical symptoms it leaves you with. If you’ve acquired dark rings beneath your eyes, aches and pains, and find yourself perpetually on the brink of jaw-dislocating yawns, mattress euthanasia might be the kindest course of action.

You may find that investing in a NASA-designed Tempur mattress puts a new spring in your step. Tempur is a kind of intelligent foam: it yields softly when it meets those points on your body which need deep comfort, like your hips and shoulders, and moulds firmly to those parts that need the most support, like the small of your back.

The combination of soft cushioning and firm support virtually guarantees a good night’s sleep – something that might seem like a dim memory if you’ve put up with that old mattress for too long.

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