We bought this mattress from JC penny's after about a month of looking at many mattresses. We thought we knew what we were doing... This mattress is about 16" thick and has a whopping total of 2" talalay latex in it. Just thinking about that now makes me wince at how naive I was... There's an 8" base of "soy based foam" and then 6" of PU foam in various smart and fancy sounding layers on top. It was marketed as a "green" Latex mattress because this so-called expert put his name on it. If only he knew what I know now! How green is polyurethane foam? This is a pillowtop model that is very soft. It really felt pretty good in the store. Little did I know that as a stomach sleeper, I would have major back pain from this mattress in only a few short weeks. I honestly never thought my back would hurt that much from sleeping on a mattress. It was just way too soft for me. The salesperson should have known - she asked us how we slept, she should have never let us buy this.. My wife is a side sleeper who actually liked this bed, but I really think the lack of support would have gotten to her after a while also. I cannot imagine that bed holding up for anyone with that 6" or so of "nothing" on top.
Feeling burned, I knew I needed to really find out what was happening and lucky for us, I found this site just about then. I read many posts and learned why I was having backaches and what would probably work for us. JCP does have a 45 day exchange plan and we went back to the store a few times and tried all the mattresses that they had and knew that we would have eventual problems with any of the them. I ended up, after going through 5 people in their Customer service dept, finally getting the OK to return the mattress and get a credit for other furniture - which worked out OK. It was much better than having to eat the darned thing, or get another S brand bed that would not meet our needs. I then went the FBM DIY all latex route, which is working out nicely. That review is to come.

I'm going to give this bed one star only because my wife liked it and it looked very nice. I think this bed is very typical of what you will find with the S brand's latex samples; a little bit of latex covered by a lot of PU foam and then play up the word "latex" in the name and marketing as the public is somewhat aware that latex can be expensive, long lasting and comfortable.

We first purchased a king-sized Simmons called Lacey Harbor, of the World Class line, at Bedmart. The store's staff were great, the mattress so hard we returned it right away (they charged us nothing for this) for a Simmons Wyland Ave. It's worse. It is not a pillowtop, but it sleeps hot as it has viscose foam (not latex, which is a natural rubber) on top and it's extremely saggy. We roll together if we get near each other, and it has what I call a hard finish; it feels soft, but it's actually saggy, with hip-hurting coils with no give. We're giving this 10 month-old mattress away, we won't even put it in a guest room, and we are now searching latex foam matresses. Note: All major vendors call their products a different name at different stores, but be wary of any Simmons Beautyrest product with coils.

Terrible worst mistake ever made,after 2-3 months its got a bad dip,no lumbar support, and big hump in center.Been argueing with co. trying get something done about it.Run from it.