As a part of CNET’s group of sleep specialists, you’d suppose my husband Dillon and I’d have the entire sleeping factor down pat. Regardless of researching, testing and reviewing every thing associated to mattresses and sleep, we nonetheless battle to get sufficient shuteye. As two stressed people doing our greatest to keep away from sleep divorce, we’re on a mission to create a bed room setup that accommodates our drastically completely different sleep preferences and positions — together with the proper mattress.

Since Dillon sleeps totally on his facet, he prefers exceptionally mushy mattresses with loads of strain reduction. However, I like a barely firmer mattress as a result of I spend a lot of the night time on my abdomen and require extra spinal assist. This disparity is the driving drive behind our quest to discover a mattress that fits us each.

On this month-to-month collection, Dillon and I’ve been sleeping on completely different mattresses for 30 nights and documenting the method. Utilizing our Whoop bands, we observe our sleep each night time to check our well being knowledge and sleep high quality on every mattress. If you wish to study earlier mattresses we have examined, try our 30-night critiques of the Avocado Luxurious Natural and Saatva Basic mattresses.

Is the Casper Snow Hybrid the perfect mattress for us? Or will this month-to-month evaluation finish with considered one of us tenting out on the sofa? Learn on to seek out out. 

Video: Testing the Casper Snow Mattress for 30 Nights

Watch us evaluation the Casper Snow mattress for 30 nights!

Preliminary ideas on the Casper Snow Hybrid mattress

The Casper Snow is a cooling reminiscence foam hybrid mattress from Casper’s new line. Since neither of us had ever slept on a mattress with a dense reminiscence foam really feel for longer than just a few nights, we had been each wanting ahead to giving it a correct probability. One of many first issues I observed when shifting the Casper Snow into our house is that it is a lot lighter than our earlier mattress — at 81 kilos, it is about half the burden of the queen-size Avocado Luxurious Natural.

This specific mattress was delivered to CNET’s mattress warehouse and testing facility within the winter. After our group unboxed it and waited for the mattress to heat and inflate to its correct dimension, we observed it was a little misshapen, and the froth layers weren’t lining up precisely as anticipated. We imagine this was because of the chilly when it was on the supply truck, and on this evaluation, you could discover some lumpiness beneath the duvet on the foot of the mattress due to it. We additionally reduce open the mattress’s fireplace sock layer throughout testing, which is another excuse for its barely wonky look.

As soon as the Casper Snow was in our bed room, we instantly examined its really feel, firmness, temperature, edge assist and movement isolation to kind our preliminary ideas. 

The Casper Snow appears and seems like a high quality mattress made with premium supplies, and I beloved the pop of vibrant blue on the entrance. The tiny perforations all through the duvet jogged my memory of the cookie a part of an ice cream sandwich (which, naturally, I additionally love).

Firmness

Casper says the Snow has a medium firmness profile, which is the one firmness choice obtainable for this mannequin. The previous few beds Dillon and I slept on had been both medium-firm or agency, in order a facet sleeper, Dillon was particularly excited to check out a softer mattress. 

We took turns mendacity on and rolling across the Casper Snow to get an thought of the firmness stage for every of us. The firmness of a mattress is subjective and may really feel completely different from individual to individual as a result of various physique varieties and weights.

Due to the reminiscence foam, the Casper Snow appears firmer while you first lie on it, however after just a few seconds of sinking in and permitting the froth to slowly kind round your physique, it begins to really feel softer. Nonetheless, Dillon and I agreed that this mattress lands round a medium-firm, or 6 out of 10 on the dimensions.

Really feel

At first of this trial, Dillon and I had been uncertain how we felt about dense reminiscence foam. We each thought we did not prefer it and most well-liked a responsive innerspring really feel as an alternative. (Spoiler alert: we had been in for a pleasing shock.) Experiencing the gradual, sinking response of the reminiscence foam layers was new for us, as we’ve solely slept on extra responsive beds prior to now.

Temperature

We agreed the duvet feels cooler than the common hybrid mattress, particularly these made with pure supplies like natural cotton and latex; nevertheless, it doesn’t really feel as chilly as beds just like the Casper Snow Max or Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe. Initially, it is cool to the contact. After mendacity on it for about 30 seconds, it began retaining my physique warmth greater than I assumed it might — particularly contemplating how the model markets its cooling know-how with the usage of HeatDelete Bands and Part Change Materials.

Many manufacturers declare their beds are cooling or have cooling know-how, nevertheless it’s usually arduous to inform when you add sheets and bedding. As two scorching sleepers, we had been wanting ahead to testing the Casper Snow’s cooling capabilities.

Edge assist

Having beforehand slept on beds with coils across the edges for further reinforcement, the sting of the Casper Snow felt completely different. Regardless of the froth border across the coils, we may positively really feel the froth slumping beneath our weight whereas sitting and mendacity on the sting. I are likely to spend a lot of the night time proper on the sting of the mattress (because of our cuddly cat, Jessica), so having stable edge assist is extra necessary to me than Dillon.

Movement isolation

We may inform straight away that Casper Snow’s movement isolation is superior. The glass of water we used to check it barely moved after we rolled round on the mattress or when our heavy husky jumped on and off. With one particular person mendacity nonetheless, the opposite flopped round aggressively to simulate switching sleep positions, and the movement switch was minimal. Dillon and I had been excited that this could assist forestall us from waking one another as a lot through the night time when tossing and turning.

Design and development

At first, we had been each stunned to study that there are, certainly, coils on this mattress, as they’re unnoticeable and it appears extra like an all-foam mattress. We admire that there’s a coil system for elevated sturdiness and longevity. The Casper Snow additionally has zoned assist, with softer foam across the shoulders and firmer foam within the center to assist your again and hips. Nonetheless, we couldn’t really feel the distinctions between layers throughout our preliminary testing.

Sleep high quality objectives

Dillon and I knew we had been fairly unhealthy at sleeping, however we did not understand how unhealthy it was till we began monitoring our sleep constantly. On common, Dillon sometimes will get round 5.5 to six hours of sleep, whereas I am round 6 to 7 hours. In the end, Dillon wish to get between 7 to eight hours of sleep per night time, and I would want to get at the least 8 to eight.5 (perhaps even 9) hours per night time.

We’re each gentle sleepers who get up continuously, often staying awake for an hour or two every night time. Typically, considered one of us will transfer to the sofa for a change of surroundings after we are uncomfortable on the mattress and may’t get again to sleep. We might love to enhance this by spending half-hour or much less awake every night time.

We absolutely acknowledge that many components aside from our mattress have an effect on our sleep high quality, from pets to eating regimen and train to bedtime routines and anxiousness ranges. Through the years, we have labored arduous to mitigate the consequences of those different components on our sleep high quality. We hope to discover a mattress so comfy that neither of us feels compelled to stand up and depart it in the course of the night time.

Our ideas midway by the trial

After the primary night time, Dillon and I had been shocked by how a lot we appreciated the dense reminiscence foam really feel. It was cozy and cozy, and I feel that cocooning sensation stored us from shifting round as a lot all through the night time. It’s more durable to modify positions and get out and in of than a extra responsive mattress, however I do not suppose that is essentially a foul factor — for a stressed sleeper like me, it may be a very good factor. 

Inside the first week of the trial, I observed it was troublesome to sleep on my abdomen as a result of my physique would sink whereas my head stayed larger, kinking my neck. I ended utilizing a pillow utterly when mendacity on my abdomen as a result of it might exacerbate this difficulty. 

Dillon and I additionally observed round this time that it felt too agency to lie comfortably on our sides. We thought we simply wanted time to regulate, however after a few week, we acknowledged that it was merely a smidge too agency. A number of mornings, Dillon awakened with barely sore hips and shoulders due to it. He additionally observed that when waking up in the course of the night time, he can be unsleeping and had a tough time falling again asleep. 

Regardless, we each totally loved the reminiscence foam and its capacity to assist us keep temperature-neutral all through the night time. I discovered myself wanting ahead to moving into mattress each night time, which beforehand had not been the case. The mattress did a unbelievable job of deadening motion when considered one of us would flop round and change positions — a lot in order that we hardly observed one another shifting round anymore. 

Midway by the trial, Dillon and I had been averaging about 20 minutes extra sleep per night time than we had been on the Avocado Luxurious Natural. Nonetheless, Dillon’s awake time had elevated to 1 hour and quarter-hour per night time — double mine. He was additionally spending significantly extra time in gentle sleep than REM or deep sleep. 

Dillon started to suspect that his elevated awake time (and the way unsleeping and alert he was in the course of the night time) was because of the mattress being too agency whereas on his facet, inflicting discomfort. A number of nights through the second half of the trial, Dillon ghosted me and moved to the sofa when he couldn’t get comfy on the mattress. 

Our ideas on the finish of the trial

Nearing the tip of the month, I concluded that the mattress was too agency for my facet but too mushy for sleeping on my abdomen or again. This was confirmed once I went tenting one night time through the trial and slept on my abdomen on the arduous floor. I used to be astounded to get up to a Whoop notification that I had slept for a surprising 10 hours and had spent 5.5 hours in REM and deep sleep with minimal awake time.

This expertise verified my suspicion that my physique nonetheless prefers a firmer sleeping floor for abdomen sleeping, which is unlucky for us as a result of Dillon clearly wants a a lot softer one. Dillon felt Casper Snow was comfy and supportive sufficient for his again and abdomen however agreed it was too agency for his facet.

How we scored our private preferences

At CNET, our sleep specialists use a standardized ranking system to attain mattresses objectively. For this collection, Dillon and I created a personalized subjective rating system to fee the options and traits we search in a mattress. Really feel and firmness had been every given a rating out of 20 factors, whereas the others had been scored out of 10 for a complete doable rating of 100. We scored these components on a preferential stage, that means what we appreciated or didn’t like personally.

Our last scores of the Casper Snow mattress

After ending the 30-night trial, we rated every attribute and provided a short rationalization. This is a breakdown our last rankings:

Dillon’s rating breakdown

Firmness: 15/20

It feels barely firmer than a medium to me, like round a medium-firm or 6 out of 10, and it’s lots comfy on my again and abdomen. I can spend a little bit little bit of time on my facet, however I want it had been softer so I may spend all the night time in my most well-liked sleeping place.

Really feel: 18/20

I like dense reminiscence foam far more than I anticipated. I received used to it rapidly and found that I actually take pleasure in that contouring, cocooning feeling. I truly want it now over a extra responsive latex really feel or a traditional pillow-top really feel.

Movement isolation: 9/10

Reminiscence foam crushes on this class. The Casper Snow has the perfect movement isolation I’ve felt in a mattress to this point on this 30-night collection.

Edge assist: 7/10

The sting assist is nothing spectacular, however continues to be adequate to maintain me from falling off the sting.

Temperature regulation: 7/10

I don’t really feel the energetic cooling know-how, nevertheless it nonetheless does an important job of not heating up by the night time. I by no means overheated however I additionally by no means received that chilly feeling that I’d wish to really feel when moving into mattress at night time, particularly throughout hotter months.

Design and development: 7/10

I just like the design of the Casper mattresses, significantly the reminiscence foam within the Casper Snow and the truth that it additionally has coils. As somebody with a heavier physique kind, I admire the assist from the hybrid development versus an all-foam mattress.

Model requirements: 6/10

Casper was one of many first manufacturers to set the requirements with regards to the bed-in-a-box trade, however these days, you may see corporations go above and past the insurance policies that Casper provides.

Sleep high quality: 7/10

Finest sleep I’ve gotten on this collection to this point. I feel it may nonetheless be improved by sleeping on a mattress with a softer firmness profile.

Dillon’s total rating: 76/100 = 7.6/10

“I used to be stunned by how a lot I like the texture of dense reminiscence foam. This could in all probability be the proper mattress for me if it was barely softer, which is obtainable within the Casper Snow Max,” Dillon mentioned. 

Aly’s rating breakdown

Firmness: 12/10

As a mix sleeper who switches between my abdomen and facet, I’ve a tough time figuring out the precise firmness stage I want. The Casper Snow felt too mushy on my abdomen but too agency on my facet. Nonetheless, as a result of my abdomen is my most well-liked sleeping place, I’d like to stay with one thing a little bit firmer (a lot to Dillon’s dismay).

Really feel: 18/20

I used to be pleasantly stunned by how a lot I just like the dense reminiscence foam. I all the time thought I most well-liked a extra responsive mattress, however after a month of sleeping on the Casper Snow, I don’t wish to return to that conventional innerspring really feel.

Movement isolation: 9/10

The movement isolation on this mattress is superb. I rarely really feel Dillon shifting round or my cat leaping on or up and doing anymore. I like that I can even transfer with out feeling like I’m going to wake Dillon up.

Edge assist: 6/10

The sting assist wasn’t nice, particularly in comparison with the beds we had beforehand examined with strengthened edges. I want it had been higher, as I spend loads of time on the sting and dislike the sensation that I’d slide or fall off.

Temperature regulation: 8/10

This mattress did an important job of protecting me cooler all through the night time. I hardly ever felt like I used to be overheating, in contrast to on our earlier mattresses with natural cotton covers.

Design and development: 7/10

I used to be stunned at first to study that it is a hybrid mattress — you may’t really feel the coils in any respect. The froth layers and cool-to-the-touch cowl really feel high-quality.

Model requirements: 6/10

Casper provides free transport and returns, a 100-night trial interval and a 10-year restricted guarantee. Whereas I do imagine that 100 nights is sufficient time to find out if a mattress is best for you, the insurance policies will not be fairly as spectacular as different manufacturers providing 365-night trials and lifelong warranties.

Sleep high quality: 7/10

My sleep high quality was virtually precisely the identical because it was on our earlier mattress, which is attention-grabbing given how completely different these beds are in each manner. I’d nonetheless wish to see my high quality of sleep enhance on the subsequent mattress.

Aly’s total rating: 73/100 = 7.3/10

Like Dillon, I used to be shocked by how a lot I loved the dense reminiscence foam really feel. It does an important job of protecting me extra temperature-neutral all through the night time. I’m simply not bought on the firmness stage.

How we tracked our sleep

Dillon and I tracked our sleep knowledge every night time utilizing our Whoop bands, compiling the identical well being and sleep metrics to check with earlier beds on this collection.

The first knowledge we targeted on for this trial had been our sleep phases every night time, or how lengthy we spent in gentle/core sleep, REM, deep sleep and awake time. The Whoop bands are dependable and appear correct in monitoring these numbers and different metrics, comparable to coronary heart fee, breath fee, stress ranges, physique temperature and extra.

Our sleep knowledge outcomes

Let’s speak numbers. As proven within the graph beneath, Dillon’s sleep ranged from lows of 4 to 4.5 hours to a couple highs of seven.5 to eight hours. My nightly sleep ranged from a low of 5.5 hours to a couple highs round 8.5 hours. For six of the 33 whole nights on the Casper Snow, Dillon slept lower than 5 hours, which continues to be barely higher than his sleep high quality on our earlier mattress.

General, Dillon’s common nightly sleep on the Casper Snow was 6 hours and 19 minutes (6.32 hours), up half-hour from his common sleep on our earlier mattress.

Oddly sufficient, my whole sleep common was the actual identical on Casper Snow as on the Avocado Luxurious Natural: 7 hours and 12 minutes (7.2 hours).

On common, I slept longer than Dillon. Dillon was awake extra however, percentage-wise, spent extra time in deep and REM sleep than I did.

To summarize, all through the trial:

• I slept about 7 hours and 12 minutes per night time.
• Dillon slept about 6 hours and 19 minutes per night time. 
• I spent 52 minutes awake on common every night time.
• Dillon spent 1 hour and 10 minutes awake every night time on common.

In the event you have a look at our restorative sleep (REM + deep sleep levels):

• On common, I spent 43% of the night time in a restorative sleep section and 57% of the time in gentle sleep.
• Dillon spent 47% of the night time in a restorative sleep section and 53% of the time in gentle sleep.

The principle distinction in our sleep phases is that Dillon spent extra time (round 25%) in REM sleep than I did (round 18%). I spent extra time in gentle sleep, and he was awake longer at night time than I used to be. This backed up Dillon’s notion about waking up feeling unsleeping in the course of the night time when he couldn’t get comfy.

As you may see above, my common nightly sleep stayed the identical, whereas Dillon’s went up half-hour from our earlier mattress.

When evaluating our sleep on the Avocado Luxurious Natural and Casper Snow, the outcomes made sense for Dillon’s whole sleep to extend: he wanted a softer and cooler mattress, which we received with the Casper Snow (although it nonetheless wasn’t fairly mushy sufficient). 

My whole sleep averages had been the identical on the Avocado Luxurious Natural and Casper Snow, however that does not imply my sleep high quality was the identical — the truth is, it appeared to enhance barely on the Casper Snow, on condition that I spent 40 minutes extra in deep sleep than gentle sleep per night time on common. Deep sleep is taken into account an particularly essential section of sleep because it strengthens reminiscences and the immune system, helps clear the mind of poisons and impacts your temper. I’d attribute this improve of deep sleep to Casper Snow’s capacity to higher temperature regulate, as I awakened fewer occasions all through the night time as a result of overheating.

As I discussed earlier, we all know our sleep numbers will not be solely primarily based on the mattress. Different components have an effect on sleep high quality, and we did our greatest to maintain these exterior components as constant or negligible as doable all through the trial.

If one associate finds a mattress uncomfortable, the issues can change into exacerbated and have an effect on each folks. For instance, Dillon steadily needed to lie on his again as a result of there was not sufficient strain reduction for his facet, inflicting him to snore, which might, in flip, trigger me to get up or have a tough time falling asleep. Because of Casper Snow’s wonderful movement isolation, I hardly observed the few occasions Dillon needed to stand up and transfer to the sofa when he couldn’t get comfy.

Smashing the Casper Snow Hybrid mattress

Our proprietary Mattress Smasher 9000 (MS9K) gadget, created not too long ago in CNET Labs, objectively assessments the firmness stage of any mattress. To see what MS9K would say about Casper Snow’s firmness profile, we positioned it on the bottom body, activated the personalized software program program and watched this distinctive CNET-only piece of know-how do its factor.

After working the assessments 5 occasions and averaging the info, the ultimate goal firmness stage got here out to be 5 out of 10 — precisely as Casper charges it. That is barely softer than Dillon and I had been anticipating, nevertheless it nonetheless helps our ideas in regards to the firmness and the perfect sleeping positions for it.

As sleep specialists, we sometimes advocate mushy to medium-soft beds for strict facet sleeping. A medium mattress can typically accommodate facet sleeping for a part of the night time, so it is often effective for mixture sleepers who continuously change positions. This true medium profile additionally explains why I personally felt it was too agency for my facet but too mushy for my abdomen.

Learn extra: Saying Goodbye to Firmness Subjectivity With Our Mattress Smasher 9000

Last ideas on the Casper Snow

After 30 nights of sleeping on Casper Snow, it is evident that it isn’t “the one” for us, primarily because of the incompatible firmness stage. Dillon and I beloved every thing else about this mattress — significantly the dense reminiscence foam really feel, cooling know-how and excellent movement isolation, so we’re bummed that it gained’t be ours for the protecting. 

As we proceed our seek for the proper mattress, we might wish to see two predominant areas of enchancment in our sleep high quality:

• Extra sleep (8 hours per night time for Dillon and at the least 8.5 hours for me)
• Much less time spent awake all through the night time (half-hour or much less)

Who ought to get this mattress?

You need to think about the Casper Snow Hybrid if:

• You want the texture of dense reminiscence foam
• You are searching for a cool-to-the-touch hybrid mattress
• You sleep primarily in your again
• Price range will not be an element

This mattress might be not for you if:

• You don’t like the texture of reminiscence foam. In the event you’re uncertain, benefit from Casper’s 100-night trial interval and check it out — you is perhaps pleasantly stunned like we had been
• You are searching for a extra budget-friendly mattress
• You are a strict facet sleeper

Take into account upgrading to the Casper Snow Max if:

• You need one thing softer and colder. The Snow Max has extra know-how that makes it truly chilly, whereas the Snow was extra temperature-neutral to us
• Price range will not be an element (a queen-size retails for $3,745)
• You spend extra time sleeping in your facet
• You need a mattress with extra zoned assist

Take into account getting the Casper One if:

• You need a mattress with a impartial foam really feel (it is extra responsive and fewer reminiscence foamy)
• You sleep in your again or abdomen
• You need a firmer all-foam mattress
• You might be searching for a budget-friendly choice

What we realized and what’s subsequent

Throughout this trial, Dillon and I found one thing new about ourselves as sleepers: we each actually take pleasure in a dense reminiscence foam mattress. Previous to this, we thought we most well-liked a extra responsive or impartial really feel, however after sleeping on the Casper Snow Hybrid mattress for 30 nights, that is not the case. 

As a mix sleeper who spends a lot of the night time on my abdomen or facet, I knew discovering a mattress on which I may comfortably do each can be a problem. Contemplating that Dillon wants and prefers a a lot softer mattress, we plan to check that subsequent. 

It has been encouraging to see the standard of our sleep enhance all through this collection as we strive mattresses of various really feel, development and firmness ranges. We’re slowly however certainly narrowing down our choices in hopes of sometime discovering a mattress that may accommodate our very completely different sleep preferences and positions. That mentioned, keep tuned for the trial of our subsequent mattress: the Nectar Premier Hybrid.