Tuft and Needle Mint II   Review

The Tuft and Needle Mint II is a Medium-Firm mattress best suited for heavier side sleepers and lighter back or stomach sleepers. It's a decent option for average-weight side and combination sleepers as well, although average-weight people would benefit from a bit more support and a little extra pressure relief.

It's not a good option for lighter side sleepers, as they won't sink in enough for proper pressure relief. Average-weight and heavier back and stomach sleepers would also be more comfortable with more support for spinal alignment.

The quilted layer is made of gel-infused memory foam that has a responsive feel for memory foam. The thinner upper comfort layer below is also made of memory foam but has a slower-moving feel. These layers help give the mattress its high contouring and add pressure relief by molding around you. The lower comfort layer is made of three separate 2.5 cm/1.0" layers of identical polyfoam. If you're in the lighter-weight category, that layer won't let you sink in much, but average-weight and heavier people will compress it at least a bit, which results in better pressure relief. Below it, a thinner transition layer helps distribute your weight over the polyfoam support layer.

This mattress's quilted and upper comfort layers are made of lower-quality memory foam that will be prone to showing signs of wear, like impressions and indentations, sooner. However, the polyfoam lower comfort, transition, and support layers are dense and of better quality, which will help the mattress resist sagging for longer.

This Medium-Firm mattress's body conformity varies depending on your weight. It's most conforming for heavier individuals, who compress it more and get great pressure relief for side sleeping. It also offers satisfactory conformity for average-weight people, making it a decent option for side sleeping, although you might ideally want more pressure relief. Lighter individuals will sink into it much less, making it an uncomfortable option for side sleeping.

Your whole body will sink into the mattress a little, but the highly contouring sleeping surface contributes more to its enveloping feel. It molds around you very closely, which helps distribute your weight over a larger area and adds pressure relief.

This mattress's support performance varies depending on your weight. If you're in the lighter-weight category, your hips won't sink in very far, and your spine will stay well-aligned, whether you sleep on your side, back, or stomach. It's also decently supportive for average-weight people, although if you always sleep on your back or stomach, more support would be ideal. Heavier people get worse support, so your spine will bend more, especially if you sleep on your back or stomach.

This mattress has very good cooling during the first hour you're in bed. Its cooling slows down a bit over eight hours, so you may notice it feels a little warmer later in the night. Overall, it's cooling enough to keep most people comfortable, but if you often feel overheated, it's not ideal.

Note: The behavior of our testing equipment is causing the Cumulative Energy Transfer line on the graph to have a smoother appearance at the four-hour mark, while most other mattresses' graphs have a stepped appearance. This is because our PID controller sometimes adjusts its output when the mattress is saturated in heat. This results in a different power output during the last four hours of the cooling test, causing the smoother appearance of the graph and making the results over eight hours incomparable with other mattresses where the PID controller didn't adjust its output.

It has good motion isolation. While you'll feel your partner's smaller shifts as well as bigger movements, motion stays localized and is mostly felt near the source, instead of all over the mattress. It also dissipates very quickly, so movements are felt only briefly and aren't as likely to disturb you.

The sleeping surface adapts quickly when you move, so you won't feel stuck in place despite its highly contouring feel. Some mattresses bounce back faster, like the Tuft and Needle Original II.

It's a bouncy mattress, which makes your movements feel supported, so it's easy to change sleeping positions.

The quilted layer's gel-infused memory foam layer has a moderately resilient feel, so it's not as slow-moving as regular memory foam. The thinner upper comfort layer is less resilient, and helps give the mattress its very contouring feel. The other polyfoam layers have high resilience and help create a bouncy feel.

It has good edge support. The edges don't sink very much when you sit on the side of the bed, and they compress evenly instead of forming a steep ramp, so you won't feel pushed off the mattress when you sleep near the side.

There's nothing extra built into the mattress edges for extra support.