Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid Review

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In This Review
Performance Tests | Firmness | Support & Sleeping Positions | Design | Materials | Comparisons | FAQs

At NapLab, we put each mattress to the test.

We test 10 different factors that impact the performance, comfort, and feel of the mattress. We then take the results of that test and compare to every mattress we’ve tested to date.

Check out the full performance table below to see how this mattress ranks:

Factor	Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid	Average
Overall Score	8.70	8.55
Price (Queen)	$1,995	$1,357 (Hybrid only)
Cooling – Score	9.0	8.6
Sinkage – Depth	2.20″	2.16″
Sinkage – Feel	Moderate	Moderate
Motion Transfer – Score	7.9	8.2
Motion Transfer – Acceleration	9.74 m/s²	8.74 m/s²
Response Time – Score	9.7	8.9
Response Time – Mostly Recovered	0.2 sec.	0.4 sec.
Response Time – Fully Recovered	0.6 sec.	1.0 sec.
Bounce – Height	7.65″	9.35″
Bounce – Feel	Low	Moderate
Edge Support – Score	8.7	8.6
Edge Support – Sitting	4.25″	4.05″
Edge Support – Lying	Excellent	Good
Sex – Score	7.8	8.4
Pressure Relief – Score	9.0	8.7
Comfort Layer Thickness	5.0″	4.2″
Mattress Thickness	12″	12.0″
Off-Gassing – Score	8.9	8.3
Off-Gassing – Smell	Strong	Strong
Off-Gassing – Days	4 days	6 days
Company – Score	8.5	8.6
Trial	100 nights	176 nights
Warranty	10 years	25% have lifetime warranties, average of other 75% of mattresses is 13 years

How is Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid Different?

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has above-average overall performance and a price that is significantly more than average—$1995 for a queen, which is 46% more than the average hybrid mattress.

This costs sleepers an extra $631 for a queen mattress and can be a real deal breaker in cases where you can get a mattress with higher performance at a lower cost.

Advantages

Despite the higher cost, the Mint Hybrid does have a few advantages including above-average cooling performance, faster material response time, and better pressure relief. The mattress is 12″ thick, which is the same as the average among all mattresses we’ve tested. However, it also has a comfort layer that is 5.0″ thick, which is 0.8″ thicker than the average comfort layer.

The Mint Hybrid off-gasses 2 days faster than average, which can be advantageous if you’re sensitive to strong odors.

Neutral Factors

This mattress has moderate sinkage and low levels of bounce. Edge support is also considered a neutral factor since it performs near the average level.

The lying edge support is slightly better than average and the sitting edge support is slightly worse than average.

Disadvantages

Disadvantages of the Mint Hybrid include more motion transfer than average and a shorter trial and warranty. The higher price tag can also be a pretty big disadvantage to sleepers on a tight budget.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has excellent cooling. During our tests, I did not feel any significant level of heat retention around my body. The mattress remained comfortably cool throughout our tests.

The Mint Hybrid benefits from its choice to use poly foams as opposed to memory foam, which often retains more heat. In addition, the hybrid design provides plenty of airflow.

Lastly, the microcoil layer within the comfort layer creates an air gap, further assisting the cooling performance on the mattress.

• Baseline Temperature – the temperature of the mattress before anyone lies on it
• Maximum Temperature (0 minute) – the temperature of the mattress after lying on it for 15 minutes
• Ending Temperature (5 minute) – the temperature of the mattress after being lied upon and having no one on it for 5 minutes

In our objective temperature tests, we measured a max surface level temperature of 90.1° F. This is 0.4° more than the average of 89.7° F, based on all of our tests to date.

After getting off the mattress the temperature declined by 5.5° from minutes 0 to 1, which is 0.7° cooler than the average 0 to 1 minute decline of 4.8°.

Heat Dissipation Over Time

When we consider the combination of objective data, my subjective experiences, and an analysis of the materials, I’m confident in my view that cooling is excellent.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has moderate sinkage. During our tests, we measured a pressure point sinkage depth of 2.20″. This is 0.05″ more sinkage than the average sinkage depth of 2.15″, based on all of our tests to date.

The level of sinkage is documented in the image below.

This mattress is a tale of two feels. Light parts of my body, especially my legs, feet, head, and arms are floating more on top of the mattress as opposed to sinking down “in” the mattress.

However, my midsection and butt sank notably deeper into the mattress, a performance that was mirrored by our pressure point sinkage test.

On the heavier parts of my body I felt a more balanced hug around my body. However, the lighter parts of my body, which weren’t sinking as deeply, didn’t experience as much contouring hug, simply because they weren’t as far down in the foams.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has a moderate level of motion transfer. During our tests, we measured a total acceleration range of 9.74 m/s². This is 11% more motion transfer than the average of 8.74 m/s².

In terms of design and materials, the Mint Hybrid has many factors that increase motion. The highly responsive foams don’t absorb energy as well as memory foam. In addition, the microcoil layer allows for a more sudden and significant dropping sinkage into the mattress.

This means that as you move around on the mattress you can come closer into contact with the support coil unit, which creates more energy and motion. This combination of factors simply means that there is more motion on the mattress.

Even so, it still doesn’t reach a high level of motion, which is great to see.

The level of motion transfer is also documented in the video below.

In our motion transfer chart, which visualizes our accelerometer data, we can see the highest motion peaks from 0 to 0.15 seconds. Motion drops quickly after 0.15 seconds and by 0.58 seconds we’ve returned to near-zero levels of energy.

While the motion intensity is slightly higher than average, the motion duration is lower. Ideally, we like to see motion transfer lower than this, but even so, this is not an unreasonable level of motion, especially for a hybrid.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has an extremely fast mostly recovered response time and a very fast fully recovered response time. In our mostly recovered test, we measured a recovery speed of 0.2 seconds, which is 0.22 seconds faster than the average of 0.42 seconds, based on all of our tests to date.

The level of responsiveness is documented in the video below.

In our fully recovered responsiveness test, we measured a recovery speed of 0.6 seconds, which is 0.35 seconds faster than the average of 0.95 seconds.

While the fully recovered response time is a touch slower than the fastest, the mostly recovered response time is tied for the fastest responding mattress we’ve tested to date.

It is effectively an instant material responsiveness. Every material layer with the mattress is highly responsive. We have poly foams, microcoils, and pocketed coils, all of which individually reform back to their original shape quickly.

When working together they also reform back to the initial shape quickly. Response speeds at these levels ensure it’s easy to move around on the mattress and you’ll never feel stuck in the foam layers.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has a low level of bounce. During our tests, we measured a total bounce height of 7.65″. This is 1.73″ less bounce than the average of 9.38″, based on all of our tests to date. The lower-than-average bounce is not unexpected and is primarily the result of the microcoil layer.

Microcoils compress easily under weight and aren’t thick enough, both in height or wire gauge, to return significant energy and bounce when they spring back.

As a result, you have a combination of poly foam layers and microcoils that all compress together but don’t spring back together with much force, resulting in lower-than-average bounce.

The level of bounce is also documented in the video below.

Fortunately, there’s still enough bounce when combined with the moderate sinkage depth and responsive poly foams to make it easy to move around on the mattress. However, the limited bounce does negatively impact sex performance.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has good sitting edge support and excellent lying edge support.

In our sitting edge support test, we measured a sitting sinkage compression of 4.25″. This is 0.19″ more sitting sinkage than the average of 4.06″, based on all of our tests to date.

The level of edge support while seated is documented in the images below.

While the sitting sinkage is slightly more than average it still is fully supportive and there was no collapse of materials.

Lying edge support was even better. While lying directly on the edge of the mattress, I felt that the support was excellent in all sleeping positions. Surprisingly, there are no reinforced coils along the perimeter of the mattress.

The level of edge support while lying is documented in the images below.

Typically, hybrid mattresses at this price point will use reinforced coils along the edges to improve support there. Despite this fact, the edge support performance for both lying and sitting was pretty solid.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has fair sex performance. On the positive side, noise is minimal and both pressure relief and cooling are excellent.

Sex Factor	Factor Weight	Score	Rating
Bounce	65%	7.3	Moderate
Edge Support	20%	8.4	Good
Noise	5%	10	Minimal
Pressure Relief	5%	9.0	Excellent
Cooling	5%	9.0	Excellent

In addition, edge support was good enough, even if it didn’t rise to an excellent or outstanding level.

That said, where the mattress struggles more is bounce. At just 7.65” of bounce, the Mint Hybrid has less bounce than average. That lower level of bounce is going to make sex more strenuous, as it will simply require more energy and effort from partners in their dance without pants.

Again, the microcoil layer is the biggest factor that’s decreasing bounce. While the lower bounce greatly helps lower motion transfer, it’s a definite negative for amorous activity.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid has an excellent level of pressure relief. During our tests, I felt no significant pressure points on my body.

The mattress is comfortable and it was easy to lie in the same positions for extended periods of time without building pressure points.

The mattress is equipped with 5.0″ of comfort material, which is 0.85″ more comfort material than the average comfort layer thickness of 4.15″, based on all of our tests to date.

Overall, I found the foams and materials within the mattress to be of good quality and I’m not concerned about the pressure relief performance or longevity. In our pressure mapping tests, we measured a max PSI of 0.95.

This is excellent, as a PSI of 2.0 is considered a high-pressure point the Mint Hybrid is nowhere near those levels.

When I consider our objective pressure mapping tests, material thickness, material quality, and my subjective experience on the mattress, I’m confident most sleepers will find the pressure relief to be excellent.

Pressure Map – Side Sleepers

Pressure Relief (PSI)	Average	Maximum
Side Sleepers	0.17	0.95

Pressure Map – Back Sleepers

Pressure Relief (PSI)	Average	Maximum
Back Sleepers	0.10	0.70

Pressure Map – Stomach Sleepers

Pressure Relief (PSI)	Average	Maximum
Stomach Sleepers	0.10	0.95

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid had a strong smell upon the initial unboxing. The mattress smelled for 4 days. This is 2.4 days less than the average of 6.4 days. The smell was a fairly typical polyurethane foam smell. It wasn’t anything especially overwhelming and it dissipated rapidly.    

Tuft & Needle mattresses come with a 100-night trial period and 10-year warranty. Shipping and returns are both free.

Company Factor	Factor Weight	Score	Data
Trial Period	15%	8.0	100 nights
Warranty	10%	8.0	10 years
Shipping	5%	10	$0
Returns	20%	10	$0
Trust	50%	8.0	Good
Country of Origin	0%		USA

Compared to the 80+ other companies we’ve tested to date, this trial is 77 nights shorter than average. The warranty is also shorter than average, which is 13 years, excluding the 26% of mattresses that offer lifetime warranties.

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid mattress has a medium-firm firmness and is a 6 out of 10 on the firmness scale, where 10 is the most firm.

Support on the Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid is excellent. During our tests, I felt well-supported in all sleeping positions.

The mattress is equipped with a 7.0″ support layer. This is 0.87″ thinner than the average support layer thickness of 7.87″, based on all of our tests to date.

Equally importantly, the mattress also has a 5.0″ comfort layer. The combination of a thicker-than-average quality comfort layer and high-quality coil unit, create ample support and pressure relief.

Pressure relief is important with respect to the total support dynamic, as without sufficient pressure relief it can cause you to change positions more frequently, interrupting your sleep.

The Mint Hybrid does a nice job of balancing the needs of support with pressure relief. The mattress is available in a single firmness, medium-firm feel.

This firmness, combined with the moderate sinkage level, and balanced body contouring hug, create a comfort and support dynamic that most sleepers and body types will find acceptable.

Check out the table below to see the sleeper weights and sleeping positions that would be best suited for this mattress.

Sleeper Weight	Stomach Sleepers	Side Sleepers	Back Sleepers
Under 150 lbs.	Yes	Yes	Yes
150-250 lbs.	Yes	Yes	Yes
250-300 lbs.	Yes	Yes	Yes

Based on all of my tests to date, an analysis of the materials, and my subjective experiences, I’m confident most sleepers will find support on the Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid is excellent.

Design

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid is a 12″ hybrid mattress with a medium-firm feel. It has a close resemblance to the Tuft & Neede Mint, the all-foam version of the Mint.

It has a higher price tag than the all-foam Mint, but also a higher performance level.

Materials

In total, there are 6 layers on the Mint Hybrid mattress, excluding the cover. From top to bottom, the layers include:

• 1.0” poly foam
• 2.0” poly foam
• 1.0” micro coils
• 1.0” poly foam
• 6.0” pocketed coils
• 1.0” support foam

The Cover

The Tuft & Needle cover is thin and stretchy, with cooling properties for less heat retention.

As mentioned above, the earlier version of the Mint mattress featured a removable cover. The present-day cover also has a zipper however, this cover is not intended to be removed for any reason.

The Comfort Layer

The comfort layer of the Mint Hybrid is made up of three foams and one microcoil layer. At the very top, we see a 1.0” poly foam, immediately followed by a 2.0” poly foam (gray foams).

Directly below the foam is a 1.0” micro coil layer. This layer uses thin coils, each individually encased in a thin fabric.

Below the coils, there is a 1.0” poly foam that acts as a transitional foam layer above the support base.

The Support Layer

The support layer is 7.0″ thick, made up of 6.0” pocketed coils and a 1.0” support foam base beneath the coils.

Product Evolution

The Tuft & Needle Mint Hybrid was first introduced in 2022 and has undergone minimal changes since its initial release. The biggest change was made to the cover. Originally, the cover was designed to be removed and washed.

Today, there is still a zipper on the cover, but the cover is not intended to be removed and the manufacturer recommends spot-cleaning and accidents or spills.

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