Leesa Original Mattress Review

David Wolfe and John Merwin launched the American brand Leesa in 2014 to improve sleep quality through the use of premium materials to give all sorts of sleepers additional comfort and a luxurious feel.

The Leesa Original Mattress optimizes the use of 10” of poly foam designed to provide your body with maximum cooling and pressure relief, unlike other memory foam mattresses.

In this review, we will test the Leesa Original Mattress regarding:

• Pros and cons.
• Unboxing experience.
• Feel and comfort.
• Construction and design.
• Performance test results.
• Warranty policies, company policies, and all the FAQs you might want to know.

Leesa Original Mattress Overview

Pros

• Pressure Relief: The Leesa Original mattress promotes pressure relief by conforming to the natural curves of your body, aligning your spine for optimal comfort. This is especially beneficial for those who experience joint or back pain.
• Comfort: With its medium-feel design, the Leesa Original mattress offers versatile comfort for side, back, and stomach sleepers.
• Cool to touch: The breathable cover and breathable foam layers of the Leesa Original mattress help regulate your temperature and keep you from overheating while you sleep.
• Social Impact: Leesa is dedicated to environmental integrity and social responsibility. Through its One-Ten program, the company gives a mattress to a person in need for each mattress that is sold.

Cons

• Firmness Preference: Although many people find the medium feel of the Leesa Original mattress to be comfortable, it might not be the best option for people who want an extremely firm or plush mattress.
• Edge Support: Like most foam mattresses, the Leesa Original mattress doesn't have top-tier edge support, especially if you are a heavy sleeper.

Who do we recommend the Leesa Original Mattress for?

• Couples: The Leesa Original mattress is great for couples since it reduces motion transfer, allowing couples to sleep undisturbed.
• Pressure Relief Seekers: Pressure point sufferers, particularly those with back or joint pain, may find relief with the Leesa Original mattress. Its foam layers distribute weight evenly and conform to the body's natural curves.
• Side Sleepers: Leesa contours to your body shape, relieving pressure points and keeping spinal alignment when you're lying on your side. Also, it’s plush and soft enough for side sleepers but not too soft, so it still provides pressure relief to your shoulder and hip joints.
• Back Sleepers: Leesa's support and good pressure relief will cushion the back region and help foster a neutral spinal alignment, which helps alleviate back pain. Because Leesa conforms so well to the body, it can take pressure off of heavier areas
• Affordability Seekers: The premium materials used in the Leesa Original mattress include supportive polyfoam and memory foam. With an emphasis on ease, assistance, and durability, Leesa makes sure that its consumers get high-quality products without having to pay a premium for them. Offering competitive pricing is Leesa's goal in the online mattress business.

Unboxing the Leesa Original Mattress

The Leesa Original arrived conveniently compressed and delivered in a package that we needed two people to carry. Leesa places a high priority on customer satisfaction.

With the use of scissors, all we had to do was unpack and unwrap it from the packaging before it expanded to become a full-size mattress that was ready for use in a few hours. The edges also fluffed up nicely, indicating excellent corner expansion.

After unpacking, we could detect a subtle smell that is called off-gassing. However, with proper ventilation, this harmless odor will disappear within 24 hours.

Overall, we found the unboxing of the Leesa original to be a very easy and convenient process.

Firmness, Feel, and Comfort For Leesa Original Mattress

Leesa Original Mattress Firmness

The firmness of your mattress will depend on your body weight and preferred sleeping position, so it's important to select one that meets your demands.

With its medium feel and a rating of 5.5 out of 10, the Leesa Original is made to provide a well-balanced blend of comfort and support, making it an excellent choice for a variety of sleep positions. It is ideal for side sleepers.

Leesa Original Mattress Feel

The velvety feel and breathable cover of the Leesa Original mattress create a comfortable sleeping environment. The mattress provides enough support for healthy spinal alignment in addition to the ideal amount of cushioning for relaxation and pressure reduction. Additionally, it can help release pressure spots, especially in the shoulders and hips, which enhances the quality of sleep overall.

Leesa Original Mattress Comfort

Side, back, and stomach sleepers all have different needs when it comes to mattresses. For the most part, back sleepers need a medium-firm mattress to maintain proper spinal alignment.

However, a firm mattress is necessary for stomach sleepers to prevent them from sinking too far into it and putting pressure on their lower backs. For side sleepers, a softer mattress that fits their body better is essential since it reduces pressure points on their shoulders and hips.

We did a couple of tests on the Leesa Original to see who it was most suitable for, and we concluded that it’s perfect for side sleepers as it contours to the body's curves, particularly around the shoulders and hips, alleviating pressure points and promoting proper spinal alignment. For the great majority of users, the mattress provided good comfort.

Here’s a table summarizing these results:

Constructions, Materials, and Design

Materials and Design

The finest materials go into manufacturing the Leesa Original Mattress, which is an elegant choice. Let's get straight into each layer's specifics. Its many soft foam layers, each with a distinct function, work together to provide you with the best possible night's sleep.

Layers

1. Breathable Cool-Knit Cover: The purpose of the cover is to help regulate temperature and enhance comfort by keeping the mattress cool and breathable. The Cool-Knit Cover, despite not being a foam layer, is crucial for encouraging airflow and minimizing heat accumulation, guaranteeing a comfortable sleeping environment.
2. 2" Cooling Foam, CertiPUR-US® Certified: It's made to provide additional cooling advantages and support comfort as you sleep. Because it has earned CertiPUR-US® certification, high performance, and environmental responsibility standards are met, as well as a guarantee of its safe composition.
3. 2" Pressure-Relieving Memory Foam: Below the Cooling Foam in a Leesa Original mattress, there is typically a 2" layer of Pressure-Relieving Memory Foam. This particular layer conforms to your body's contours, relieving pressure points and guaranteeing that your spine is properly aligned.
4. 6" Dense Core Support Foam: The foundation of the Leesa Original mattress is the 6" Dense Core Support Foam, which provides long-lasting support, stability, and durability. It prevents sagging, encourages healthy spinal alignment, and offers steady support throughout the night.

Performance of Leesa Original Mattress

Cooling

Cooling foam is a feature of the Leesa Original mattress that helps to control temperature by allowing heat to escape through the open-cell structure, encouraging airflow, and avoiding heat accumulation. For those who tend to grow overheated at night, materials are selected based on their ability to neutralize heat, which absorbs and releases excess heat.

Mattress cooling is important because it keeps you from overheating and provides more comfortable sleep. People who tend to sleep hot should be especially aware of this, as should those who live in hot climates.

To assess the Leesa Original Mattress's cooling ability, we lay on it for twenty minutes while monitoring its heat retention.

Its cooling effects were evident even after 20 minutes, during which we did not feel any heat, especially as a foam mattress, in our opinion. As a result, this mattress receives a well-earned 4.5 out of 5 for cooling.

Responsiveness

We measure responsiveness by measuring the time it takes for the mattress to return to its initial shape after use. Responsive mattresses are great for both sexual activities and combination sleepers because they are very comfortable to move around on and change positions on.

We tested the responsiveness of the Leesa Original. We put a 20-pound ball on the mattress and then removed it to test it. With this test, we can find out how quickly the mattress regains its original shape after being pushed down. The Leesa original mattress took 1.2 seconds to respond, which means it has good responsiveness.

Overall, the Leesa Original mattress offers a contouring feel that follows the contours of your body to provide comfort throughout the night. Its combination of memory foam and responsive support layers ensures that the mattress quickly adjusts to changes in pressure, providing restful and energizing sleep for a variety of users.

The Leesa Original scored 4 out of 5 on our responsiveness test.

Motion Isolation

Motion isolation is very important because it means motion transfer over the mattress's surface is absorbed and minimized, which makes it a great option for couples who don't want to be woken up by their partner's tossing and turning during the night.

To test this, we placed a glass half full of water on top of a 20-pound ball that was placed on one side of the mattress. The twenty-pound ball hit the mattress with almost no movement in the water within the glass. The mattress absorbed almost all the impact of the ball.

We conducted an additional test to see how effectively the mattress would block out motion from a partner. On one side of the mattress, one person was forced to lie, while the other was free to roll around on the other. The person on the other side of the mattress who remained still claimed to feel no movement at all. Indicating excellent motion isolation.

The Leesa Original scored 5/5 on our motion isolation test.

Edge Support

How stable you'll feel on the side of your bed is determined by the edge support.

For couples, who frequently make use of the entire surface area of their bed, this is crucial. For an all-foam bed, the Leesa's average edge support isn't unexpected. This is important for comfort, safety, and durability, among other reasons.

A mattress with great edge support is a blessing for couples, heavy sleepers, people searching for a long-lasting mattress, and anyone who likes to spread out and use the entire surface of the mattress.

To see how the Leesa Original would perform, we put it through two tests. First, we applied pressure to the edges firmly while monitoring any counterpressure. The mattress provided good support and returned to its original shape after we released pressure.

Second, we sat on the borders of the mattress, watching for any sinking that might have come from our total weight. We sank in just a little bit, but when we got out of bed, we felt secure and didn't fear falling off the mattress.

The Leesa Original mattress has good edge support; it scored 4/5 on our edge support test and didn't sink when we sat or lay on its edges, except for some little sinkage.

Noise

A silent mattress is the ideal choice for light sleepers and couples. When you're trying to go to sleep, the last thing you want to hear is your partner turning over and over or the springs in your mattress squeaking.

We placed a 20-pound ball on the Leesa Original to check for noise. We listened for any squeaks or other noises using sensitive microphones, but we detected none. The Leesa Original mattress makes no noise as it's a foam mattress.

It is an excellent choice for couples, light sleepers, and those sensitive to noise, as we gave it a 5/5 noise rating.

Sex

While it's a matter of preference, there are four key aspects to take into account when selecting a mattress for sex: edge support, cooling, bounce, and noise.

Accordingly, the majority of couples require a mattress that offers both motion isolation and some responsiveness. The Leesa is responsive enough for sex without being overly bouncy, and it hits that perfect spot.

It has nice cooling and good bounce, which help prevent uncomfortable sinking. This implies that you and your partner can move freely and comfortably because neither of you will feel heavy or warm.

The Leesa Original is a very safe choice for you and your partner because it is also noiseless and has good edge support.

Our sex performance test gave the Leesa original mattress a score of 4.5 out of 5.

Pressure Relief

A well-pressed mattress has a curved, cushioned surface that helps relieve pressure points. Many people who sleep on their sides suffer joint pain like mattresses with lots of pressure relief.

We tested the Leesa Original mattress's ability to release pressure using our pressure map method. We asked our reviewer to lie on the mattress for 20 minutes while we measured pressure at several points on the body.

The pressure relief test results are displayed in the pressure map below.

Looking at the map, the blue area shows that the mattress helps ease pressure on the hips and shoulders, making it a great option for side sleepers.

Heavy back or stomach sleepers with back pain may not find the same relief. It also relieves hip pain for average and light-back sleepers. Stomach sleepers with hip pain should seek a firmer mattress.

In total, the Leesa Original mattress has scored 4.6/5 in our pressure relief test.

Leesa Warranty and Company Policies

Warranty

The Leesa Original mattress is guaranteed to be free of defective components and manufacturing defects for 10 years. If a problem occurs during this term, Leesa will replace your mattress at no cost to you. However, mishaps, misuse, or abuse are not covered by the guarantee.

Trial

The Leesa Original Mattress is available for a 100-night risk-free trial. This is a great option for anyone who isn't sure which mattress is ideal for them because you have plenty of time to try the mattress out and make a decision. During the trial period, you can use the mattress as much as you wish.

Returns

It's common for someone to feel a little uncomfortable when they first purchase a new mattress. Their bodies require some time to adjust to the increased support, stiffness, and materials. Giving a mattress at least 21 nights before returning it is advisable to allow your body to adjust. You can return the bed for a full refund at no additional cost during the trial period.

Shipping

Leesa offers free shipping inside the United States and some areas of Canada. The majority of mattresses ship in 3–7 days, however, the delivery address will affect how long it takes to arrive.

Pricing

The Leesa Original mattress is available in a variety of sizes, with prices starting at $849. These prices are before any discounts, so it is best to check their website for the most up-to-date information.

For a reasonable price, the Leesa Original mattress is available. For your money, you should expect to get exceptional value and performance. The mattress is built with premium foams and materials to guarantee that it remains cool, cozy, and supportive all through the night.

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FAQs about Leesa Original Mattress

Where are Leesa mattresses made?

All Leesa mattresses are designed and manufactured in the U.S.

Are Leesa Sleep mattresses safe to use?

Yes, all of its beds have received CertiPUR-US® certification, indicating that they are completely safe and devoid of substances like formaldehyde and other substances that deplete the ozone layer.

What kind of bed frame or base should I use with the Leesa Original?

Leesa recommends using a foundation, box spring, solid platform, or slatted base.

How can I make the mattress last longer?

According to Leesa, you may extend the life of your mattress by rotating it 180 degrees every six to eight months. The mattress should last you more than eight to ten years.