PROS
- The Avocado Green Mattress improved my sleep score starting on night one.
- The mattress has up to 1,459 individually wrapped support coils arranged in seven ergonomic zones. In other words, it truly supports your body while sleeping, no matter if you’re a back, stomach, or side sleeper.
- There are three firmness options (two of which include built-in toppers) and sizes ranging from twin to cal king.
- Avocado only uses the safest materials, and the mattress comes with a long list of organic and nontoxic certifications, including GOLS, GOTS, EWG — and no polyurethane foams or fire retardants.
CONS
- The price point is much higher than mattresses from major box stores — but in this case — you get what you pay for.
- Some reviewers note the bed takes a few weeks to break in and that (at first) it’s firmer than they expected. I had this experience as well, though the “firmness” wasn’t uncomfortable but rather more initial support than expected after testing a floor model.
Somewhere between entering my 30s and settling into the city I plan to call home for the foreseeable future, I realized I needed to stop buying Ikea mattresses off Craigslist. I moved around so much in my 20s and college years that it never made sense to fork over money for a mattress I’d have to store, move, or get rid of in a year-long lease’s time. But then I realized I hadn’t moved apartments in three years and didn’t plan to anytime soon. And so I did the very adult thing and began researching and reading reviews of mattresses.
The answer, I found, was always unanimous, whether on guides or Reddit threads: Avocado is supreme in the mattress world and the preferred option among consumers. (No, really; it’s a #1 mattress on Consumer Reports). And so when the brand offered to send me their bestselling Green Mattress to try for myself, I found myself hesitant. Just kidding. I jumped at the chance! Read on to hear how much better I’ve been sleeping since.
About Avocado
First, a little background on Avocado for readers who are just learning about the brand.
Avocado was founded in 2016 with one very clear mission: To make a premium organic and nontoxic mattress, direct to consumer, and crafted right here in the USA. The co-founders were very specific in wanting to create a mattress without petroleum-based polyurethane foam, toxic fire retardants, chemical adhesives, dangerous pesticides, or other offgassing chemicals — all of which are found in many mattresses. A truly green mattress at an affordable price point didn’t exist. And so they made one.