Designing the Mattress With Wakefit- India's no-1 Ortho Mattress

Our founder has grown up in a family where foam testing and formulations were discussed over breakfast table and his passion for the subject drove him to become a chemical engineer from IIT.

The missing pieces of the puzzle were the customer concerns and problems with existing mattresses in the market. We solved that by setting up a core team whose focus was to talk to hundreds of customers and understand their feedback on numerous parameters.

Our extensive research identified four major factors which play a major role in mattress designing. We conducted tens of experiments in our lab and tried out hundreds of permutations and combinations with the chemicals, dimensions, foam type and other factors to achieve the best results:

Durability

Density plays a major role in deciding the durability of mattress. Higher foam density implies a longer lifetime

Support

Firmer the base foam, better is the support provided to the spine

Temperature

Bigger the cell size of the foam, more is the breathability (better air-flow) inside the mattress and thus creating stable temperature throughout the night.

Comfort

The least the mattress pushes the body upwards (Newton's third law) while lying on it, more is going to be the comfort while sleeping on it. Our self designed memory foam takes care of it perfectly. NASA, the world’s foremost Space agency, innovated on the memory foam for this specific use case. Another good example is a nice hospital bed. Patients can sleep over it for weeks and the body remains in great shape.

A few more experiments rounded out the other sensitive parts of mattress designing:

Less VOCs - Using water based adhesives instead of organic solvents eliminates bad odor from mattresses

Hygiene - Inner cover absorbs sweat and prevents it from reaching the foam surface. This helps in maintaining hygiene for a long time

Cleanliness - Outer cover is made using Viscrose (cotton, natural yarn) and has a zipper on it. You can remove the cover from the mattress and wash it to retain a fresh appearance

Foam formulations - We made a couple of foam formulations to experiment with the cell size, density, hardness (firmness), compression set, etc. This helped us in getting to know what works best for our customers!