Emma Hybrid Comfort Mattress Review

By Mike Szostech

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Emma has created a super comfy hybrid mattress

Emma’s newest mattress is their most comfortable! We found it much more plush feeling and yet still supportive (compared to their Emma Original mattress). We recommend this mattress for sleepers looking for a hybrid option.

The Emma Hybrid is a new 13-inch hybrid mattress from Emma.

It’s made to support added weight and movement without the usual heat and stuffiness that can be associated with a memory foam mattress. The mattress has 7 different layers to optimize comfort for all body types and all sleep positions.

While we do think the Simba 5000 mattress is more comfortable (by a little bit), it’s also more expensive.

Who this mattress is for:

• If you need pressure relief, especially if you sleep on your side, this mattress is soft but still supportive enough to keep your spine in line.
• Heavier people. This mattress has a higher weight rating than mattresses from other companies.

Skip this mattress if:

• You need maximum motion isolation. While this mattress does a good job, there are foam mattresses that do a better job
• This mattress meets USA flame standards, which means it contains unnecessary materials for Canadian standards. While the mattress doesn’t appear to contain fiberglass, it does have a fire proof sock.

Unboxing the Emma Hybrid

The Emma Hybrid Comfort mattress came in a very nondescript, standard cardboard box. Unboxing is simple, but this mattress is pretty heavy so you might want a second person.

Open the end of the box, and slide the mattress out of the box – which is pretty much impossible to do by yourself. Pulling on the mattress drags the box along to, so standing up the box with the open end down and lifting the box off of the mattress worked well.

Unwrap the layer of plastic that holds the mattress tightly wound up, and then unfold the mattress. This ends up with the mattress upside down, so flip the whole thing over (another step that’s definitely easier with a helper).

Lastly, carefully cut off the vacuum bag from the mattress and watch it spring to life!

Mattress Materials

The Hybrid Comfort mattress is so new that there isn’t any information on the mattress in Emma’s FAQ section of their website. However, the mattress tag and a large label on the outside of the mattress box gave us all the details we wanted.

The mattress is made in Guadalajaro, Mexico, and meets the federal flammability test for the USA (We assume that means this is the same mattress sold in the USA). Those tests are more stringent and so we went looking for a fireproof mattress sock.

Unzipping the cover revealed the mattress sock. We’ve reached out to the company to see what materials are used in the fireproofing.

The materials listed on the box and the mattress tags list the following:

• Mattress materials consisting of 75% polyurethane foam pad, 25% polyester fiber, and pocket spring coil unit
• Cover is made of 100% polyester, with the bottom of the mattress cover made of 85% polyester and 15% polypropylene
• Mattress filling material has a net weight of 36 lbs and 7 oz in the queen size mattress

Testing the Hybrid Mattress

We have a series of tests that we use on all of our mattresses. This gives us a benchmark to compare one mattress to another.

Being a hybrid mattress, we knew that the Emma mattress should perform well in the bounce test because of the coil springs. But we weren’t sure how it would do for motion isolation or for edge support.

Edge Support

Often, hybrid mattresses or innerspring mattresses will have a barrier wall of relatively firm foam around the pack of coil springs to help hold the mattress together. That foam barrier also allows for the edge of the mattress to hold up better while getting in and out of bed, or while sitting on the edge of the bed.

Emma’s hybrid doesn’t have any foam surround barrier. In fact, the coils go right to the edge of the mattress and if you wanted to, you can feel them through the sides of mattress cover.

We thought this would mean that loading the weights near the edge of the mattress would cause it to collapse, but we were pleasantly surprised when the mattress held up.

In the image above you can see that edge support isn’t great, but the mattress does maintain some support even under a heavy edge load.

Motion Isolation and Bounce

Emma’s website has a video showing a child jumping on their mattress with a caption.

Undisturbed sleep with zero motion transfer

Using what we’ve found for motion isolation on other hybrid mattresses, we wanted to test it for ourselves. Typically, an innerspring mattress doesn’t isolate motion as well as a memory foam mattress and so we thought the ‘zero motion transfer’ was a bit of an exaggeration.

In the image above, we dropped a 20 pound weight from 20 inches above the mattress. The picture is a snapshot of the weight on it’s way back up after bouncing. The water on the right leaned and sloshed quite a bit.

We wouldn’t say there was zero motion transfer, but we do agree that there is good motion isolation – especially considering that it’s a hybrid mattress.

Bounciness is something that spring mattresses excel at, and this was no exception. A bouncy mattress is bad if you have a restless partner (although motion isolation helps), but a bouncy mattress is great for helping you get up and out of bed. Bounce is also considered a good thing for certain adult bed activities!

Here’s a video of the raw footage of all of the test we did on the Emma Hybrid Comfort mattress.

Emma Hybrid Sizes

The Hybrid Comfort mattress comes in all standard sizes. Emma doesn’t make an RV size. Notably, the King and California King sizes are the same price so if you’re looking for a Cali-king you can definitely save some money over other mattress brands that charge more for the longer mattress.

Emma Mattress Canada Warranty

The warranty covers the original purchaser for 10 years as long as they are located in Canada. Be sure to retain a copy of the order number and customer details as proof of purchase.

A mattress is covered by the warranty if it has been used for personal use in a normal method within the home. The mattress must be laid on a flat, supportive surface during use.

Any indentation greater than 1.5 inches compared to the surrounding mattress area that does not return too their normal height.

If the warranty application is approved, Emma will arrange for the mattress to be picked up from your house and replaced free of charge.

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