I LOVE my Pure Latex Bliss Beautiful mattress. I also have a Pure Latex Bliss topper.

I bought it from Sleep City in San Rafael about this time last year. I went in and they had a floor model they were clearing out, so I negotiated them to ~1900 or 2000, including the topper. Amazing deal, as these beds are usually many more thousands of dollars.

I freaking love my bed. Doesn't get as hot as other beds. Very cooling. Very soft, supportive, cushy... I just LOVE it.

Latex is great (talaylay especially) because it doesn't compress over time, so the beds are a great investment. I looked at mattresses at the Natural Mattress store as well, and liked them well enough. But my PLB Beautiful is better (for me). And it doesn't have the wool, and other stuff in it, which means - like I said earlier - it will last longer.

My sister liked it so much that she bought the floor model at the other store in Northern California. Hilarious!

Sleep City included free delivery and in general I really liked working with them.

Remember to negotiate! (wherever you buy)

Oh, and this is a great resource for buying a bed! http://www.themattressunderground.com/

Phoenix has a discussion board and she answers questions super well. It's how I learned about latex myself.

I went to the Natural Mattress store in San Rafael this weekend. Man, I just wanted to fall asleep right there in their store. I told the guy what I wanted and he showed me the right bed in the first example. I laid on a bunch of other beds but I think I found what I want. NOT the full latex or foam ones, I need springs with a latex topper. Totally organic. They had a wool topper to go on top of it to keep sweat out of it. Their super nice pillow was made of latex tubes and some sprouted seed thing. I wouldn't be able to wash it. So more down pillows for me.

Sat on some of the beds at Ikea and the difference was huge. I'm still going to look at some other places just to make sure we're getting the right one.

Funniest part was when I was telling my mom about them, she said "there are chemicals in mattresses?". Um, yeah, tons and tons.

I like a good warm form fitting waterbed, yes they do still make them. When it is cold I turn up the temp and that feels so good on pain filled areas. when it is warm I turn it down and that helps with the sweating. I find other types of beds too hard in certain areas where a waterbed forms to my body in a way other beds don't...