Who the Superior Cashmere suits
The Superior Cashmere is The Foam People's plushest build and our Best Budget Luxury pick: the mattress for a guest room that needs to impress, or a main bedroom where £200 is the ceiling but a £600 feel is the goal. It suits back and side sleepers of light-to-average weight who want a soft-touch surface over a properly supportive core.
The honest caveats: there's no home trial, so unlike Emma you can't return it just for being wrong for you, and heavier nightly sleepers should choose a deeper sprung build like the Emma Original Pro.
Construction and materials
The 23cm build pairs a memory foam comfort layer with a firmer supportive foam core, finished with the headline feature: a soft cashmere-blend cover. Cashmere at this price is a blend rather than a solid-cashmere sleeve, but the hand-feel difference against standard polyester knit covers is immediate. Like all Foam People mattresses it's cut to order in the UK, which is also why custom and European sizes are available, rare at any price.
Comfort and support
We score it 8.8 for comfort and 8.5 for support, remarkable numbers at £198. The memory foam layer is deep enough to cradle the shoulder for side sleeping, while the core holds a true medium that keeps back sleepers aligned. The 23cm depth is the quiet advantage over sub-£150 rivals: there's enough material to absorb an average adult without bottoming out.
Temperature
An all-foam core insulates, and the cashmere blend is a warm natural fibre, this is a cosy mattress rather than a cool one. Winter sleepers will love it; hot sleepers should look at the CoolMax models from the same maker, like the Comfort CoolMax Intelligent.
Edge support and motion isolation
Edge support is adequate rather than impressive, as with most foam builds, sitting on the edge compresses it noticeably. Motion isolation is excellent: foam-on-foam construction transmits almost no partner movement.
Durability, trial and warranty
The 5-year warranty is half what Emma or Luxe offer and there's no sleep trial, the real costs of the low price. The foam density is good for the money and should give 5–7 years of nightly use at average weight; rotate monthly to even the wear.
Our verdict
The Superior Cashmere delivers the most surface luxury per pound on this site. It can't match the trials, warranties or spring engineering of mattresses three times its price, and we score it accordingly, but as a sub-£200 bed that guests will assume cost far more, it has no rival in our range. An 8.5 overall at £198 speaks for itself.
