Leesa Mattress Review: Reasons to Buy or Not Buy in 2024 – CNET

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A look at the original Leesa mattress in its natural element: the bedroom.

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7.0

Leesa mattress

Score Breakdown

Performance 8.3Support 7Return Policy 6Pressure Relief 6Features 9

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Like

• Accommodating firmness level for all sleeping positions
• Leesa is great with donating to charity
• Ideal for sleepers under 230 pounds
• Comfortable, neutral feel that’s super accommodating

Don’t like

• Not supportive enough for people over 230 pounds
• A little too pricey for shoppers on a tight budget

Product details

• Type Poly foam hybrid mattress
• Firmness 5 or medium
• Trial 100 nights
• Warranty 10-year limited warranty
• Price Scale $$$

Community involvement is a quality more people are looking for in the brands they choose to support when buying items for their home. Leesa, one of the popular bed-in-a-box mattress brands, is a certified B Corporation that focuses on social and environmental needs. Part of how it earned this title is that for every 10 mattresses it sells, it donates one to a family in need.

First impressions 

The Leesa Original mattress is delivered right to your front door, compressed and rolled up inside of a box. All you’ll need to do is unbox and unwrap it from the packaging, and it’ll inflate into a full-size mattress ready to sleep on. (Give it around 24 to 48 hours to fully inflate and adjust.) It also has a new mattress smell, kind of like a new car smell. It’s a little overwhelming right out of the box, but don’t worry — it should dissipate after a few hours and disappear within a few days (at most). 

In terms of style, the mattress looks like your standard foam mattress, similar to Casper or Tuft and Needle, though I liked the cover a bit better. It reminds me of a cozy baseball sock with the stripes on the top. It’s soft, but also stretchy and breathable. 

Since the Leesa Original has a memory-foam layer underneath its breathable top layer, I was expecting more of a memory-foam feel. But the mattress feels more neutral and bouncy, closer to a traditional spring mattress. I didn’t get that quicksand-like sensation, which was a big plus for me. I’m a neutral to hot sleeper, and sometimes I can get too warm in a memory foam mattress that pulls me into the foam layers. 

Instead, it offered good pressure relief for my hips and shoulders, but it wasn’t so soft that my back sank into the mattress. For this reason, I rate the Leesa Original mattress a medium on the firmness scale — or a five out of 10, with 10 being the firmest. 

Video: Leesa Mattress Review

Watch CNET video producer Owen Poole review the Leesa Original mattress.

Comfort 

Like a lot of foam bed-in-a-box mattresses, the Leesa bed is three layers thick and 10 inches tall. 

• The base is a supportive 6-inch foam layer that acts as the foundation for the mattress.
• The center is a memory-foam layer that brings pressure relief and neutralizes the firm foam slab below it. 
• The comfort top layer is made of what the brand calls its cooling foam. While it’s not exactly cold, it has a neutral feel and is more breathable than typical memory foam. 
• The Leesa Original mattress cover is made of a soft twill fabric, though it’s not machine washable or removable. 

Motion isolation

Quality foam mattresses are generally pretty good at absorbing motion, and the same goes for the Leesa Original mattress. I even put it to the water glass test. I placed a glass of water (not wine like that one memory foam commercial — I’m not that gutsy) on the edge of the bed and rolled around to see what happened. The glass didn’t jiggle, sway or fall over. 

Unless your partner is throwing themselves around the mattress, you should hardly feel them move in the middle of the night.