Spring cleaning your mattress increases your chances of sleeping through the night — here’s why and how to do it

Left, a close up of a pair of hands wearing yellow gloves using a pray bottle to apply cleaning solution to a mattress and a scrubbing brush. Middle, mattress tester Lauren Jeffries starts stripping the bed. Right, a close up of a Jimmy mattress vacuum being used to vacuum the surface of a dirty mattress.

Every night as we sleep, dead skin cells and sweat make it a perfect environment for dust mites and bacteria to form on our mattress — and this will have a knock-on effect on our sleep.

Dust mites are one of the biggest causes of allergies and respiratory problems, keeping us awake or waking us up in the night. Even if you've invested in the best mattress for your body, if it's dirty, it can make you become hotter or sweat as you sleep.