Helix Moonlight Mattress Review
In this review of the Helix Moonlight Mattress we take a look at the original model by Helix Sleep, a popular brand known for its wide variety of mattresses, and that now offers a Sleep Quiz to help you pick the best Helix mattress for your needs based on your answers.
Helix Moonlight mattress offers an amazing support, comfort and pressure relief. It sleeps incredibly cool due to the use of latex, pocketed coils and special breathable cover, and has minimal amount of sinkage and no motion transfer at all.
This in-depth review of the Helix Moonlight mattress evaluates all of the criteria we use to determine what constitutes a good mattress, which includes firmness / support, comfort, sleeping hot, and other features as outlined below.
Read our review and find out what we think about this amazing new mattress and what are our experiences sleeping on it. Review updated
Construction and Materials
The Helix Moonlight mattress is a 12″ hybrid mattress made up of latex, hundreds of individually wrapped coils, and foam and it consists of the following layers.
- Top Comfort Layer – This layer is made of Helix Dynamic latex-foam hybrid alternative. It is extremely soft and designed to provide cooling and responsiveness to the mattress, contour to your body and make moving around in bed easier during the night.
- Transition Layer – This layer is made of of special Memory Foam Plus designed to provide ergonomic support and cushion your body. It is slightly firmer and serves as a transition layer between a softer top comfort layer and pocketed coils beneath.
- Body Shape Layer – This layer is composed of individually wrapped coils. There are hundreds of individual coils that serve to cradle and support your body while sleeping and limit excessive motion transfer. Reinforced perimeter offers additional support and excellent edge support while the whole layer allows greater airflow, adds to the overall breathability of this mattress and aids in cooling.
- Base Layer – This layer is made of DuraDense high-density support foam that serves as the foundation and support for the mattress and increases its durability and stability.
Helix Moonlight mattress layers
The cover of the Helix Moonlight mattress is made up of 100% polyester with a soft and stretchy white top and lower blue and grey bottom. The cover is thin and designed to assist in airflow and improve cooling.
Helix Moonlight mattress cover
Firmness & Support
The Helix Moonlight is the premium latex and pocketed coil hybrid mattress and we rate it at a 5 out of 10 (10 being the firmest).
The company has their own firmness scale and they rate the Helix Moonlight mattress a little softer, in a range that you can see below.
Helix Moonlight mattress firmness scale
The soft top comfort layer offered a gentle feel and allowed me to sink into a mattress to a certain degree for pressure relief, but I never felt enveloped by it and stuck in foam thanks to the responsive material used in the construction of this layer.
The slightly firmer memory foam layer beneath combined with the pocketed coil layer did an excellent job of lifting my heavy weight and providing the right amount of support to those areas of my body where it was needed most.
These layers distributed my body weight evenly across the mattress and provided me with amazing pressure relief both when sleeping on my side and on my back.
The Helix Moonlight mattress had just enough give in the comfort layers to mold to my shoulders and hips and yet enough firmness necessary for back sleeping.
We love how comfortable the Moonlight is and how well it met our firmness and comfort needs and we really looked forward to doing the Helix Moonlight mattress review and we are totally satisfied, just like with the previous Helix mattress that we have reviewed.
The Helix Moonlight, like the previous Helix mattress, did a great job of providing a perfect balance of pressure relieving comfort and support and provided us with what each of us enjoy in the same bed.
Comfort
The Helix Moonlight mattress is extremely comfortable. The combination of its latex-foam, pocketed coil, and foam layers with the soft and breathable cover works well to provide a perfect balance of comfort and support necessary for a comfortable and sound night’s sleep.
The soft top comfort layer gives you the feeling of sleeping on clouds, reacts to your body shape, molds to it, and allows your body to sink into it to a certain degree for a perfect pressure relief.
Helix Moonlight corner view
It also has a nice responsiveness which, when combined with the firmer foam layer beneath and bouncy pocketed coils, prevents you from sinking too deep into the mattress and feeling stuck in it.
This also facilitates moving around in bed during the night and makes late night activities quite enjoyable.
Sleeping Hot
The Helix Moonlight mattress does a great job at keeping things cool and comfortable all night long.
The combination of latex-foam layer with pocketed coil layer does a very effective job at preventing the build-up of excessive body heat during the night when compared to other mattresses we have reviewed.
The mattress also comes with a special Two Touch Design cover created to increase airflow through the mattress and keep the top of your mattress cool at night.
Sinkage & Motion Transfer
The Helix Moonlight mattress does a good job of reducing the amount of sinkage and motion transfer.
As we always preach, sinkage and motion transfer are largely weight dependent and the fact that I weight around 230 lbs tends to have a rather large bearing on the degree of sinkage I experience when sitting and lying on a mattress. Kaye, who is half my weight, experiences much less sinkage due to her much lighter weight
It is true that I compressed the top comfort layer quite a bit, but its responsive material and the firmer memory foam and pocketed coil layer beneath prevented me from sinking further into the mattress and feeling stuck in it. They perfectly worked together to support and lift my body and distribute my weight evenly across the bed.
Kaye felt it did the same for her. It supported her lighter weight with ease and stopped her from rolling into me due to our weight differences.
She didn’t experience the common feel of “sinking into a hole” which is often the case with other lower quality mattresses.
Helix Moonlight Logo view
Edge support was great with this mattress and better than in most other beds due to the reinforced perimeter of the pocketed coil layer.
It is true that I compressed the top foam layer when sitting and lying near the edge, but the firmer memory foam layer and pocketed coils prevented me from bottoming out. We also didn’t experience any “rolling off” the edges sensation.
As for motion transfer, there is almost no motion transfer with this mattress due to its unique design. It allowed us to move around and get in and out of bed freely during the night without fear of waking each other.
Smell / Off-Gassing
The Helix Moonlight mattress gets high marks in this category for not having much of a noticeable smell upon opening the box.
The hybrid design (with roughly half the bed being constructed of foam) makes a difference with the amount of off-gassing. We experienced some, but it largely dissipated over the first few nights.
Customer Service
Helix Sleep provides about the standard amount of customer service you can expect in a “Bed In A Box” online mattress retailer. This includes:
- 100 Night Sleep Trial
- 10 Year Warranty
- Made in America
- Free Shipping
- Money back guarantee
- Save 75$ on a Helix Moonlight : Use code MFT75!
Price
The Helix Moonlight mattress, just like the previous Helix mattress we reviewed, is very attractively priced for the quality materials that you get upon purchase.
It comes in at only $920 for a Queen, which is an excellent price given the quality materials and construction used in this mattress.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| Twin | $525 |
| Twin XL | $625 |
| Full | $775 |
| Queen | $920 |
| King | $1170 |
| Cal King | $1170 |
Summary
The Helix mattresses are unique, unlike any other mattresses currently present on the online mattress market, and the newly released Helix Moonlight is no exception either.
It is an innovative and high-quality mattress that differs from pretty much every other “Bed-In-A-Box” offering on the market and that met all our needs and sleep preferences.
In addition, the Helix Moonlight mattress offers an amazing support, comfort and pressure relief. It sleeps incredibly cool due to the use of latex, pocketed coils and special breathable cover, and has minimal amount of sinkage and no motion transfer at all, which is why we pick the Helix Moonlight as one of our favorite mattresses for couples.
So, if you share your bed with a partner and you tend to sleep hot, we highly recommend you the Helix Moonlight mattress and we hope that our review can help you in your next mattress purchase.
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Pros
- Custom mattress design
- Quality materials
- Individual firmness levels
- Sleeps cool
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