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Beautyrest Black vs Tuft & Needle Essential Original

Easily compare the Tuft & Needle Essential Original vs Beautyrest Black Mattresses side-by-side.

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Essential Mattress Info

Brand
BeautyrestTuft & Needle (USA)
Mattress Type
Hybrid (coils and foam)All Foam
Prices
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Trial & Warranty

Trial Period
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Trial Period (nights)
100100
Warranty Length (years)
1010

Firmness Options

One Firmness Fits All?
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Adjustable Firmness
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Half-Half Firmness
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Selectable Firmness
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Flippable / Reversible Firmness
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Firmness Info

The mattress for those who love the feeling of truly luxurious sleep and are looking for a medium-firm feel, essential cooling and pressure relief features. This mattress has two upgrade options available:

  1. Cooling Upgrade: If you're looking for a medium-firm feel, but tend to be a hot sleeper or live in a warmer environment, our Beautyrest Black with Cooling Upgrade is perfect for you.
  2. Cooling + Comfort Upgrade: This mattress is for those looking for the pressure relief of a plush pillow top without sacrificing cool sleep.

We make one model of mattress that is designed to be universally comfortable and medium firm, in order to benefit all different types of sleepers regardless of factors such as age, height, weight, or the way you sleep. We like to describe it as firm enough to be supportive, yet soft enough to be comfortable!
We've designed our foam to work with those who like soft mattresses as well as those who like firm, so we encourage everyone to give us a try regardless of your usual preference. If you're not 100% satisfied, you can return it for a full refund.

Mattress Construction

Materials Overview

Beautyrest Black is our premier line, and proudly features our greatest innovations, so you can wake up feeling your very best every day. The Beautyrest Black (L-Class Medium) is a five layer design:

  • 0.5" Plush Comfort Foam
  • 1" Medium Comfort Foam
  • 1.5" Energy Foam
  • 0.5" Beautyrest® Gel Memory Foam
  • T3 Pocketed Coil® Technology with BeautyEdge®.
Tip: there are many models under the Beautyrest Black name so be careful when comparing instore with online that the codes are the same! Mattresses purchased online come with a 100-night in-home trial and free White Glove delivery: delivery, setup, and removal of your old mattress.

Two-layer blended foam designed by and proprietary to Tuft & Needle:

  • The comfort foam layer is 3" of a very high-density foam that we created to achieve our universally comfortable, cool and responsive properties. The density is about 2.8 lbs/cubic ft.
  • The support foam layer is 7" of a high-density poly-foam. The density is about 1.8 lbs/cubic ft.

Comfort Info

If you choose to upgrade:

  1. Cooling Upgrade: Has all the features of the Original plus an additional layer of memory foam (RightTemp™ Memory Foam) infused with highly conductive and durable carbon fiber which makes this up to 20% cooler than the Black Original.
  2. Cooling + Comfort Upgrade: has the same comfort layers as the Cooling Upgrade plus an additional 2" layer of GelTouch® Foam that offers airflow and breathability.

Our foam works in three ways to draw heat from your body and disperse it out of the mattress.
Heat Wicking
Heat is drawn into the mattress where gel and graphite work together to disperse heat outward and away from your body.
Breathable
With the help of our fabric, air flows through the foam cells to boost the speed of heat transfer through the mattress.
No More Quicksand
Our support layer helps hold you closer to the surface to avoid the oven effect caused by sinking in too deeply.

Support Info

Hand-picked Technoluxe foams are designed to reduce pressure on key spots like hips and shoulders.
Our T3 Pocketed Coil® Technology is designed to reduce motion transfer, absorb energy, and provide durability.
BeautyEdge® for reliable edge support. If you choose to upgrade:

  1. Cooling Upgrade: Has all the support features of the Original.
  2. Cooling + Comfort Upgrade: has two additional inches of high quality memory foam (GelTouch® Foam) for even better pressure relief than the Cooling Upgrade, especially around areas like the hips and shoulders.

Designed to be one type of comfort, we are continuously tweaking the mattress to be universally comfortable for everyone. Our foam supports the natural posture of your spine, relieves back, shoulder, and neck pain and naturally breathes so you don't sleep hot.

Comfort Specs

Tuft & Needle Adaptive® Foam
We've engineered a new foam based purely on customer feedback, unparalleled in comfort and support. It's not memory foam or latex. It's Tuft & Needle Adaptive® Foam.

Support Specs

The Technoluxe Memory Foams system includes more, higher quality memory foams than in any Beautyrest mattresses. These Technoluxe foams are designed to offer sophisticated pressure relief.
Our T3 Pocketed Coil® Technology (our most advanced spring support yet) provides our best support and durability while also preventing partner disturbance.

Supportive Base Layer
Our custom Tuft & Needle Adaptive® Foam is paired with a high-quality support layer that forms the perfect foundation for our mattress.
Our foam is ideal for sleepers of any size or weight - and this is what makes it unique. The more pressure you put on it, the more it reacts to support you.

Fabric Specs

Most advanced cooling technology: BlackICE™ 4.0 is a combination of cool-to-the-touch fabrics and heat-wicking materials like silver and SilkAir™ fiber. The High Airflow SilkAir™ Fiber which is super breathable, to help you stay cool throughout the night.

Our plush Tuft & Needle Original Mattress cover is made with a blend of micro polyamide and polyester. It has a lofty, soft feel which is very pleasant to the touch. Micro Polyamide is commonly used in clothing for men, women, and children as an alternative to cotton that dries 6-8 times faster, helping you sleep cooler, longer. With durability in mind, we've designed a fabric that will last. Our mattress cover fabric is pilling-and tearing-resistant. We ask that customers do not remove our cover at any time, as the cover is not designed to be removed for any reason. The zipper on the bottom of the mattress is for assembly only.
Add antimicrobial protection by HeiQ for an additional $50.

Manufactured in
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Suitability

Side Sleepers
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Back Sleepers
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Size & Weight

Twin
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Twin Dimensions
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Twin Weight (lb)
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Twin XL
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Twin XL Dimensions
79.5 x 39 x 13.5 "80 x 39 x 10 "
Twin XL Weight (lb)
6452
Full
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Full Dimensions
74.5 x 54 x 13.5 "75 x 54 x 10 "
Full Weight (lb)
8463
Queen
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Queen Dimensions
79.5 x 60 x 13.5 "80 x 60 x 10 "
Queen Weight (lb)
10472
King
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King Dimensions
79.5 x 76 x 13.5 "80 x 76 x 10 "
King Weight (lb)
13394
Cal King
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Cal King Dimensions
83.5 x 72 x 13.5 "84 x 72 x 10 "
Cal King Weight (lb)
14094

Certifications & Sustainability

Certifications
CertiPur-US®
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GREENGUARD Gold
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GREENGUARD Gold
Other Certification Info

Intertek Certified

Delivery

Delivery Cost
FREEFREE
Delivery Info

Conveniently delivered using our complimentary White Glove Delivery experience. After checkout, you'll be contacted by our shipping partner to select a delivery day that works best for your schedule. The day of your delivery, you'll get a call confirming your delivery window. Upon delivery, they will set up your new mattress and remove your old mattress and any packaging for that mattress.

Ships Free in a Small Box. Shipping times may vary, but most customers in the lower 48 states can expect their new mattress to arrive in 2 to 5 business days from the day they order.

Prices
Latest Promotions
Spring Savings Event | Save up to $800 off select Beautyrest Black® mattresses with the purchase of an adjustable base. Plus, purchase any Beautyrest Black® mattress and save 50% on any 2 pillows. Add eligible items to cart and use code PILLOW50 at checkout. Through 4/17
See offer
Spring Savings Event | Bundle & Save Purchase any Beautyrest Black or Harmony mattress and save 50% on any 2 pillows. Add eligible items to cart and use code PILLOW50 at checkout. Through 4/17
See offer
New Price | Save $100 Plus, you can bundle & save by adding any mattress, Mattress Protector, Down Alternative Pillow Set, and any sheet set to your cart and using code MATTRESS15 to save 15%
See Tuft & Needle Best offers