The Arrival 

Silk & Snow is available for purchase online and is delivered free of charge throughout most of the US and Canada; however, shipping fees do apply for some remote locations. The mattress arrives in a cardboard box that requires two people to move. Our mattress took 6 business days to arrive in our Edmonton location, though like many online mattresses, Silk & Snow typically arrives within 3–10 business days after placing your order. 

The Unboxing

The mattress is simple to unpack. Once out of the box, it needs to be removed from the protective plastic layers. The unwrapped mattress should fully expand within a few hours.

The Look 

The Silk & Snow Hybrid has a Euro-top design. The sleep surface is covered with white tufted fabric, while the dark blue sidewalls are styled with lattice stitching.  

The Feel 

Silk & Snow has a medium-firm feel, very similar to many other single-firmness mattresses in the mid-market price range. The tufted sleep surface has a bit of softness and contouring as you first press into it. Press a bit further down into the mattress and you will begin to feel the resistance of the pocketed coils below, which push your hands back up to the surface of the mattress.

The following results were determined by licensed 3rd-party engineers, commissioned by us:

Silk & Snow Hybrid Mattress Layers

Silk & Snow Hybrid contains three layers. The individual layers work together to provide a good balance of comfort and support. 

• First layer: 1 inch of quilted cooling gel foam and holofiber fill. This top layer adds a touch of softness to the top of the mattress to aid with pressure-point relief. 

• Second layer: 2 inches of gel memory foam. This transition foam replaces two layers in the previous iteration of the Silk & Snow Hybrid mattress. Not only does the transition layer help shape the overall feel and firmness of the mattress, but it’s infused with cooling gel to help promote heat dissipation. 

• Third layer: 8 inches of pocketed coils. This bottom layer of tempered steel coils makes up the foundation of the mattress, offering responsive support and motion isolation. Certain sections of this base layer are intersected with thicker coils to assist with spinal alignment.

Silk & Snow Mattress Cover

Like the company’s original mattress, the Silk & Snow Hybrid has a two-tone mix of white and navy blue polyester. While the top of the mattress features a bright white surface with diamond tufting, the sidewalls are decorated in navy blue fabric styled with lattice stitching.

Silk & Snow used to include antimicrobial silver in their mattresses covers to ward off most bacteria along the sleep surface. The company now uses a different, undisclosed antimicrobial agent for the same function. Though the S&S website lists spandex among the cover fabric materials, the law label on our test mattress listed neither spandex nor the antimicrobial material in question.

Bed-in-a-box mattresses sometimes have removable and machine-washable top covers. The Silk & Snow Hybrid does not have a machine-washable top cover and is spot-clean only.

Silk & Snow is a relatively small North American mattress company. They entered the bed-in-a-box market after completing a Kickstarter campaign in 2017, releasing a single memory foam mattress. Silk & Snow sells within the United States and Canada, with factories on both sides of the border. Since launching, the company has released two more mattresses, the Silk & Snow Hybrid and the Silk & Snow Organic. In 2022, the company began selling bath textiles to further expand their home offering.

Silk & Snow uses a variety of couriers to deliver their mattresses. Shipping is free for most customers, but fees may apply to remote locations. 

Like many bed-in-a-box companies, Silk & Snow promotes its 100-night comfort guarantee. This is when the buyer can try out the mattress at home before deciding to keep it. At 100 nights, this sleep trial is average in length. If you choose to return your mattress during this time, Silk & Snow offers free mattress pickup and a refund for the cost of the mattress upon collection.

It is worth noting that Mattress-Reviews.com did not complete the return process but received this information via the FAQ section on the company’s website.

We hire 3rd-party engineers and use public data to rate mattresses on over 25 criteria.

The ability to compress and roll coil-based mattresses is still a fairly new innovation, having only been around for under a decade. As a result, hybrid mattress brands like the Silk & Snow have not had the same amount of time as their memory foam counterparts to grow market awareness and establish massive customer bases.

Rather, customers who are initially drawn to hybrid beds are most likely to begin and end their search at traditional retail stores. Because of the nature of the market, successful online hybrid mattress companies have to do one of two things:

1. Create a luxury product like Logan & Cove that customers can buy at a heavily discounted price.
2. Create a value-priced mattress like Brunswick using simplified messaging, modern materials, and exceptional customer service.

The Silk & Snow Coil Hybrid falls somewhere between these two areas. But to their credit, they have managed to develop a product that offers a number of features mattress shoppers want most while still staying on the right side of $1,000.