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Want to get a better night’s sleep without spending a bundle of cash on a new mattress? Now’s the time to make your move! Labor Day is around the corner, and that means many mattress makers are giving their best-selling models the biggest markdowns of the year. Take a quick look online and you’ll quickly see that high-quality mattresses that may have been a bit above your price range are now within reach. And with so many options on mattress sales to choose from, it can feel like quite the, well, labor-intensive task to sort through them all and choose the right deal for you.
But don’t sweat it. Just kick up your feet and take a load off instead. Why? Because we’ve perused, reviewed and compiled the best Labor Day mattress sales of 2022 for you!
Get the support you need while doubling down on comfort. The DreamCloud Premier is a hybrid mattress that combines foam and individually wrapped innerspring coils to provide pressure relief and cushion for your most sensitive areas.
Sleep hot? No problem. The DreamCloud Premier’s top layer is a high-quality quilted foam designed to move heat to the gel memory foam layer underneath, where it’s transferred away from your body. And if you act fast enough, you’ll sleep a little more soundly through the night knowing that you scored a great deal on a quality mattress.
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If you struggle with lower back pain, the Saatva Classic innerspring mattress is designed to offer relief. It contains 884 individually wrapped coils to help the mattress contour to your body. And its middle is reinforced with active wire support to prevent your lower back from sinking during the night. Saatva Classic’s dual-coil system helps to make the mattress responsive while minimizing motion transfer, and its plush pillow top was added to help cushion your body. The Saatva Classic is also encased with a foam layer designed to add durability, deter sag and distribute your weight even across the mattress surface.
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If you’re on a budget or a frugal spender, the Nectar aims to help deliver a good night’s sleep at a bargain price. An all-foam mattress, the Nectar is designed for pressure relief and responsiveness, thanks to its five adaptive memory foam layers and edge protection. Also noteworthy about the Nectar mattress is its eco-friendly materials: a tencel cover and a vegetable-based polyurethane. Oh, and all Nectar mattresses are CertiPUR-US® certified, meaning they meet rigorous standards for emissions, content, performance and durability. So, you can rest assured that your Nectar is made without mercury, lead, heavy metals and formaldehyde.
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The Helix Midnight is worth a serious look from side sleepers this Labor Day. The thin and airy cover layer is made to help keep you cool by moving heat away from your body, while the comfort layer underneath is designed to offer a medium feel that splits the difference between a surface that’s not too soft or too firm. To provide support for your head, shoulders, hips, knees—and to help keep your spine aligned through the night—the Helix Midnight sports hundreds of individually wrapped coils that are designed to contour to your body and limit motion transfer.
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The Nolah Signature mattress is constructed from highly resilient polyfoam and designed to deliver deep pressure relief and provide gentle contouring to your body. According to Nolah, the mattress also contains billions of microscopic air bubbles that are meant to assist in distributing your body weight and help maximize pressure relief. Nolah is so sure of the Signature’s pressure-relieving abilities, it touts on its site that it offers four times more support on pressure points like hips, shoulders and your back versus traditional memory foam.
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The WinkBeds EcoCloud combines New Zealand wool, natural latex and pocketed coils into a single mattress that’s sustainably sourced and hypoallergenic. Its four-inch latex layer is made of 100% natural Talalay latex (with the OEKO-Tex100 certification to prove it) and is zoned along with its innerspring coils for a firm center and a softer feel at the head and foot areas. This mattress is environmentally friendly from the ground up and inside out—and is designed to offer a supportive, responsive and bouncy surface.
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The Bear Hybrid is intended for sleepers in search of a cooling and responsive mattress. It features copper-gel foam and a quilted cover infused with FDA-approved Celliant fiber technology that’s been shown to transfer heat away from you while you sleep. Celliant technology has also been recognized in studies for its restorative properties. The Bear Hybrid’s individually encased coils run edge to edge to add support and pressure relief across its entire surface, and the Bear Hybrid’s comfort layer is designed to adapt to all body types and any sleep position.
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The Casper Wave Hybrid mattress mixes the comfort of memory foam with the support and durability of a pocket-coil system. It’s designed to offer pressure point relief and a surface that cradles your hips and shoulders. Casper also built gel pods into the mattress to provide hyper-targeted support under your waist and lower back. These pods, along with a combination of foam and coils, are intended to keep your spine in alignment while also alleviating pressure. And for couples, the Casper Wave’s blend of latex, foam and coils was created to promote responsiveness, motion isolation, cooling and edge support.
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Take your pick: firm or ultra-firm? That’s the choice you have with the Brooklyn Bedding Plank mattress. It’s designed to be flippable, so you can sleep on both sides. One side is your standard firmness (with a 1.5-inch quilted top layer) and the other is ultra-firm (with a thin 0.75-inch quilted top layer). The great news is that both sides were created to promote neutral spine alignment and help alleviate restrictions to blood flow. You can’t go wrong!
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The Leesa Original memory foam mattress features a soft and breathable fabric cover and an exclusive foam top layer designed for a comfortable, cool sleep with a bouncy feel. Its core layer is designed to contour to your body and relieve back, hip and shoulder pressure—while the underlying high-density foam layer helps to reinforce mattress durability.
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The Brooklyn Spartan mattress was created to help athletes sleep better and wake up feeling recharged. This means the mattress was designed to provide pressure relief to your joints and reinforce your back. Case in point, its 8-inch core contains over 1,000 individually encased coils concentrated in the areas where your body needs the most support. Within its cover fabric, there’s even heat-activated technology that’s been clinically shown to promote blood flow and shorten recovery times. Its coil-encased core is aided in support with an additional one-inch gel memory foam layer and a comfort layer that’s designed to remove heat from your body and contains antimicrobial properties.
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Tuft & Needle designed its original mattress with the hot sleepers in mind. That’s evident from the graphite the company infused into the top layer of the mattress, a material with thermoregulating properties that absorb and transfer body heat. In addition to the graphite, Tuft & Needle also added cooling gel to its top layer to help prevent heat from getting trapped.
Its seven inch base layer is constructed from high-density polyfoam for firmness and support. But once again, Tuft & Needle clearly brainstormed ways to prevent this layer from becoming a giant heat trap; the entire mattress sports an “open cell” design to promote extra breathability across its two layers and prevent you from waking up in a pool of sweat.
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Prices are accurate and items in stock as of publish time.
Adam Zammiello is a content writer based near Raleigh, NC.