Beautyrest Pressure Smart Firm Review

• You have brand loyalty.
• We have no further pros for this model.

• Discontinued (or very difficult to find)
• If you're a light sleeper (under 130 lbs)
• If you're primarily a side sleeper (rarely back or stomach)

The Beautyrest Pressure Smart Firm is about a 7-8 on a 1-10 firmness scale. This firmness is perfect for people that primarily sleep on their back & stomach. If you're a light sleeper (under 130 lbs), consider another mattress. You'll likely stay floating on top of the mattress (and not get the relief & support you'd need). This is not good.

You want to find a compatible comfort level that matches your sleep style. Especially for long-term health & wellness.

If you're an average sleeper (130-250 lbs), firmness is likely adequate. The problem? There are exceptions - i.e. you prefer a very (a) soft or (b) firm comfort level.

Finally, if you're on the heavier side (>250 lbs), you have a higher chance of enjoying this firm comfort level.

The Beautyrest Pressure Smart Firm has innerspring pocket coils for support & a gel memory foam comfort layer.

Additionally, the tight-top does a good job adequately supporting your weight, providing a relatively wide sleep surface (+ 'decent' edge support).

The pillow-top + hybrid innerspring combination is a relatively standard mattress design in 2022 for a reason. Even in older, potentially discontinued models like this one. The style is tried & true, even if material & construction quality is considered slightly 'lesser' than more premium builds (like a Saatva or Winkbed).

Support & motion isolation for Beautyrest Pressure Smart Firm is fair (nothing exceptional).

The bottom innerspring pocket coils combined with the gel memory foam do a fine job dissipating motion transfer across the mattress.

It's safe to say the Beautyrest Pressure Smart Firm is likely built to last 3-5+ years (before it's time to replace it). This is one of the main reasons why it's difficult to recommend this mattress.

The Beautyrest Pressure Smart Firm uses cooling tech in both their top cover and construction. Typically, proprietary names for normal features are fancy marketing techniques to make a specific characteristic appear better than it might be.

We recommend considering 2 primary factors with your potential future mattress's cooling: (1) does MODEL have decent airflow and (2) does the top cover and construction wick moisture & dissipate heat?

If those 2 benefits don't exist, heat created by your body at night can get trapped into small temperature pockets inside the top layer of the mattress (because of (a) poor airflow and (b) rising heat). The result? A potential loss of REM sleep. Losing REM sleep carries a whole host of other negative health consequences (way too many to list here).

In the case of , there's a chance small heat pockets like this could form. It's exceedingly difficult to compare mattress models and technologies, so we usually recommend either: (1) calling Beautyrest directly to confirm specific features of technologies, or (2) consider a luxury online mattress company (almost always a better option). In the case of #2, we strongly recommend taking a look at Saatva.