Best Cooling Mattresses for Menopause

Anyone who is going through menopause knows how challenging it can be to get through the day, let alone get through a good night of sleep with hot flashes and other symptoms. Waking up covered in sweat with a hot mattress, hot to the touch, is in no one’s best interest.

That’s when I started looking for the best cooling mattresses for menopause, things that would help pull the heat away from my body instead of absorbing it and somehow reflecting it back onto me like one of those 1960s tanning trifolds women used for some reason.

Here’s what I found. 

My Top Recommendations

I’ll start with Eight Sleep. This is number one on my list because it offers real-time adjustments to your temperature. No other mattress does that. 

Sleep Number Climate360 is always a good option. I’ve been a big fan of the Sleep Number mattresses, particularly for situations where you and your partner sleep differently, whether one of you sleeps on your back versus your stomach or one of you sleeps hot versus cold. Close to Eight Sleep, but not as many cool features. 

Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Breeze LuxeBreeze is a cool-to-the-touch option that is firm and supportive, though it won’t adjust the coolness in real time based on your biometrics like Eight Sleep. 

Helix Midnight Luxe with GlacioTex Cover is like the Tempur-Pedic option; it stays cool-to-the-touch but only because of the mattress cover. That doesn’t mean it’s bad; it just means you have to pay more for the actual cooling part of the cooling mattress.

Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe is like Helix. The mattress itself has different layers of foam with some copper in there to help keep things cool, but the real selling point is the exact same GlacioTex cover used with Helix. 

Now let’s look at each of these in more detail to see how they compare in terms of the materials, the firmness, the warranty, and what I seem to like best. 

#1: Eight Sleep

Eight Sleep is my number one recommendation for the best cooling mattresses for menopause. I have done the trials, been disappointed, and then I found Eight Sleep. 

Eight Sleep is a step above the Climate 365 smart mattress from Sleep Number. You get an immersive pod with a blanket, a mattress cover, and the Hub and base, depending on the version you choose.

All of these combined give you benefits like Heating and Cooling on each side, sleep tracking, alarms that come in the form of vibrations or thermal alarms instead of an annoying sound from your phone, which is really nice if you and your partner wake up at different times. You also get new technology that offers snoring mitigation, back pressure relief, and surround sound.

With Eight Sleep, studies have found that people achieve significantly better sleep, with an average of around 25% more deep sleep each night, especially for people who struggle with menopause related hot flashes.

It works by using your Biometrics and sleep data to continually monitor and adjust things like elevation and temperature based on your body heat and your sleep. 

• When you start your sleep for the night, everything gets heated or cooled to your needs with soothing soundscapes. 
• A few hours later, as your core body temperature has to drop in order to get good sleep, the Pod actually lowers the bed and starts cooling the mattress so that you fall into a deeper sleep. 
• The Pod might do things like quietly elevate the other side of the bed if your partner starts snoring. 
• The Pod works to maintain optimum temperatures if they sense that your side of the bed is getting much warmer because of hot flashes or increased body heat.

There are so many things to love about this mattress, not least of which is the option for maintaining whichever firmness you want based on the mattress you have. I, for example, have my mattress just the way I like it, but this cover and base could be used with my existing mattress, so I didn’t have to shell out for something new to go with the Pod. 

With real-time monitoring using AI-powered sensors, all of this information can help identify your baseline and make changes over the first few weeks of sleeping using your respiratory patterns, your resting heart rate, and other bio signals without you having to wear anything while you sleep. A. May. Zing. 

What’s not amazing is you have a 30-night risk-free trial, whereas most of the other cooling mattresses for menopause give you 100-day trials or lifetime warranties. And since the AI model develops a lot of your baseline data after upwards of 2 to 4 weeks, this doesn’t really seem like enough of a trial timeframe.

Type:

Mattress cover, base, hub, and blanket

Materials:

Different for each of the items; The cover is made of polyester on the top, nylon and polyurethane for the waterproof fabric, polyester with a mix of rayon and spandex for the side fabric 

Firmness:

Any option, as it fits with your existing mattress 

Trial:

30-night risk-free trial

Warranty:

5 years

#2: Sleep Number Climate360

This Sleep Number tracks your needs with options for things like foot warming if you have low circulation. It is very expensive, though, I won’t lie. This will make your mortgage or rent seem laughable.

That said, part of that cost goes into the Dual climate controls and built-in sleep tracker. Like Eight Sleep, it comes with a base, and you can set the parameters to turn your temperature up or down by 15° from one side to the next. The foot warmer turns off once it can tell you are asleep.

So I see this as a comparable alternative to Eight Sleep, particularly for partners who have very different sleep preferences, but it doesn’t have all the same bells and whistles or, to speak more literally, the sound options, the elevation pitch that adjusts automatically as you start to relax, and the same degree of change in terms of temperature modulation. 

Type:

Hybrid smart bed

Materials:

Foam, coils, and a thermal layer embedded with microsensors

Firmness:

Adjustable

Trial:

100 nights

Warranty:

15 years

#3: Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Breeze LuxeBreeze

I prefer firm mattresses. I don’t like sinking into a mattress. It might seem appealing to “float”, but I prefer actual floats in float tanks, and for the rest of my night, a mattress that doesn’t try to drown me in fluff. 

That’s why I like the Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Breeze LuxeBreeze. 

This has remarkable durability and no sink-in sensation, so you will lay on top of your mattress all night. 

There are a lot of impressive cooling materials here, like the top layer that stays cool to the touch. The top cover is designed to pull heat away from your body with no motion transfer. They have different firmness models, so if you are someone who sleeps on their stomach, obviously, the firm model is going to be better as compared to the medium model, which is good for side sleepers. I don’t sleep on my stomach, but I still prefer the full firmness. 

Type:

Foam or hybrid with coils

Materials:

Temper cool plus material, cooling cover, and hybrid design with coils

Firmness:

Soft, medium, hybrid, or firm

Trial:

90-day risk-free trial

Warranty:

10 years

#4: Helix Midnight Luxe with GlacioTex Cover

I love that you get a lifetime warranty here, but I don’t like that the firmness is only available in medium. This won’t work if you are trying to overcome hot flashes and you sleep on your stomach. It will work wonders if you sleep on your back.

That said, the design comes with three different layers of memory foam and individually wrapped coils underneath the memory foam to help support your spine. The cooling ability is derived from one of those three layers of memory foam.

That one layer has copper infusion, and the copper infusion is there to help you stay cool, but honestly, that has never worked as well as you might think. 

I believe Helix knows this, which is why they actually sell the option for the GlacioTex cover, which is where the real cool-to-the-touch upgrade comes into play. Now, if you’re going to choose this option, you need that cover. 

Type:

Hybrid

Materials:

Copper gel-infused foam, coils, GlacioTex Cooling Cover

Firmness:

Medium

Trial:

100 nights

Warranty:

Lifetime

#5: Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe

Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe gets a lot of positive reviews as one of the best options for cooling. But the thing is, the bed itself isn’t the cooling mechanism; it’s the same cooling cover that Helix uses. 

Regardless, Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe has deep pressure relief, and they are really good when it comes to non-traditional sizes. The mattress has several cooling features in each of the layers. As a hybrid, it has good breathability with coils and foam and that foam contains things like copper to help transfer heat away, and then of course, the wrapped coils and then the cooling cover.

This is a really good mattress if you sleep on your side, your back, or your stomach, and it’s ideal if you sleep in different positions throughout the night, but as I said, that cover is extra, and it’s basically the one feature that makes this a cooling mattress.

Type:

Hybrid

Materials:

Wrapped coils, copperflex foam, GlacioTex Cooling Cover

Firmness:

Soft, medium, or firm (but firm is like, a 7 out of 10, not a real 10)

Trial:

120 nights

Warranty:

Lifetime

Summing Up

There are a lot of good options out there, but some of them a little more effective than others, and here’s what I think: 

• EightSleep: The best option on the market today, with a base and mattress cover that monitors your biometrics and makes changes in real time to keep your body temperature cool. 
• Sleep Number Climate360: Go for this if you want a foot warming feature with slightly fewer cooling controls as compared to Eight Sleep. 
• Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Breeze LuxeBreeze: Go for this if you want a cool-to-the-touch topper with optimum firmness. 
• Helix Midnight Luxe with GlacioTex Cover: A good choice is you want medium firmness and are willing to shell out for the cool-to-the-touch cover. 

Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe: Same as Helix; a good choice for different levels of firmness but the cooling components really come from the cover.