Yoga Mats

Wipe your mat down with a damp cloth and a small amount of mild, non-abrasive soap after every sweaty session, then leave it to air dry fully before rolling it back up. Trapped moisture is what causes odour and breaks materials down early. Avoid machine washing, harsh chemicals or direct sunlight for extended periods, which can degrade natural rubber over time. Liforme's Ultimate Everyday Yoga Mat Cleaner is formulated specifically for natural rubber and eco-polyurethane mats, so it cleans without breaking down the grip surface.

Give it a quick wipe after every practice, especially if you sweat, and a more thorough clean once a week if you're practising several times a week. Mats used for hot yoga or Vinyasa need cleaning more often than one used occasionally for gentle stretching.

View our yoga mat cleaner here.

Start with how and where you practise. Prioritise grip if you do hot yoga or Vinyasa, alignment support if you're newer to yoga or working on your form, and portability if you travel or commute to class. Our Yoga Mat Buying Guide walks through each factor in more depth.

A regular-size mat with built-in alignment guidance, like the Liforme Classic Yoga Mat, is a strong starting point. The AlignForMe® markers act as a quiet visual reference for hand and foot placement while you're still building body awareness, and reliable grip means you can focus on the pose instead of your footing.

Most quality studio mats sit between 3mm and 6mm. Thinner mats give you a closer connection to the floor and better stability for balance poses, but less cushioning for knees and wrists; thicker mats are more forgiving on joints but can make standing poses feel less stable. Liforme mats are calibrated to 4.2mm to balance both.

Natural rubber paired with eco-polyurethane is widely considered the best-performing combination: the rubber base gives you a stable, non-slip foundation, while the eco-polyurethane top layer provides grip that holds up when you sweat. This tends to outperform standard PVC or foam mats, which are cheaper but wear out, lose grip and aren't biodegradable.

Liforme's regular mat is 185cm long, our Extra Large is 210cm, our Travel mat is 180cm, our Yoga Pad is 64cm and our Kids mat is 146cm.

As a rule of thumb, a regular mat comfortably suits most people up to around 6'2" (188cm). If you're taller, or simply want more room to stretch out in poses like Savasana, our Extra Large mat gives you an extra 25cm of length.

Liforme's regular and Extra Large mats are 68cm and 70cm wide respectively; our Travel mat is 66cm, our Yoga Pad is 33cm and our Kids mat is 61cm.

Natural rubber bases combined with a textured eco-polyurethane top layer, like Liforme's GripForMe® surface, typically outperform PVC and TPE mats for grip, especially once you start to sweat. PVC can feel grippy when dry but becomes slippery quickly in hot or sweaty conditions.

Yes. Our GripForMe® surface is engineered to hold its traction in both dry and sweaty conditions, so you shouldn't need a separate mat towel even in a heated class. View our hot yoga mats here.

Our AlignForMe® system was born from a real problem: our founder kept hearing different alignment cues from different teachers and had no way to remember them between classes. The system's central line, end-to-end lines, 45° lines and corner markers give you a consistent, subtle visual reference so you can build good habits on your own, whether you're brand new to yoga or fine-tuning an advanced pose.

With normal use and the care outlined above, Liforme mats are built to last for years, not months, which is why every mat comes with a 100% satisfaction money-back guarantee. At the end of a mat's life, our natural rubber and eco-polyurethane materials are designed to biodegrade within 1–5 years, rather than sitting in landfill indefinitely like standard PVC mats.

Yes. Our mats are made from sustainably sourced natural rubber and eco-polyurethane, are PVC-free, use non-toxic inks, and are designed to biodegrade within 1–5 years. Liforme has been B Corp Certified since 2022, and we partner with organisations including Tree-Nation, CleanHub and Friends of the Earth to fund environmental and social projects with every mat sold.

Our Travel Yoga Mat is purpose-built for this: at 2mm thick and around 1.6kg, it packs down small and light for classes, commutes and holidays, without compromising on the grip and alignment features of our full-size mats.

For most people, our Classic Yoga Mat is the best all-round choice: it's our original, most popular mat, rated 4.9 out of 5 across more than 5,400 reviews, and it's where our GripForMe®, AlignForMe® and CleanGrip® technologies all began.

Liforme mats sit at a premium price point because of what's underneath: a patented alignment system, a natural rubber and eco-polyurethane build designed to outlast cheaper PVC and foam mats by years rather than months, and a 100% money-back guarantee that removes the risk of trying one. For anyone practising regularly, most yogis find the cost-per-use works out lower than repeatedly replacing a budget mat.