Yoga Design Lab Combo vs B Mat Everyday: Which One Should You Buy?

The Yoga Design Lab Combo is $117: a recycled microfiber towel, printed and bonded to a natural rubber base, 3.5 mm thick. The B Mat Everyday is $118: 4 mm of Spanish rubber that’s tacky on both faces.

Both are bought by people whose hands get wet. The Combo’s towel top soaks sweat up. The B Mat’s rubber lets it sit on the surface and grips through it. How much you sweat, and how you move between poses, decides which of those suits you.

GearLab’s 2026 roundup put the Combo 17th of 19, at 52 out of 100, with 4 out of 10 for both dry and wet grip. It gave the towel credit for absorbing sweat, then said its grip was slicker than hoped for on a mat built for hot yoga, the very thing Yoga Design Lab sells it on.

The B Mat wasn’t in that roundup. GearLab reviewed it on its own in November 2023, back when it was sold as B Yoga, rated it among the grippiest mats it has tried, wet or dry, and made it its top choice for sweaty hands. They come from different test rounds, so they aren’t a head-to-head.

Yoga Design Lab says the Combo becomes grippier as you sweat. Amazon’s review summary doesn’t settle it: grip draws 38 positive mentions and 25 negative, with a recurring complaint that traction fades a few minutes into class.

The B Mat absorbs nothing. GearLab says sweat pools on top, yet the traction remains even with a hand sitting in a puddle. On b, halfmoon’s site, a teacher who leads 7 to 10 classes a week in an infrared-heated studio loves the grip, while a one-star reviewer was slipping and sliding in a heated flow as soon as the sweat started.

Without much sweat, the two go wrong in opposite ways. GearLab’s first con for the Combo is slippery for dry and wet grip, and one Amazon owner says their back foot still slips a couple of inches in transitions after five months. The B Mat grips hard enough that some of GearLab’s testers felt stuck dragging a foot forward and started stepping instead.

GearLab suggests the B Mat may be too grippy unless you sweat heavily, particularly in gliding Ashtanga or vinyasa, and the one-star reviewer above says the stickiness drove them crazy in an unheated class. For a cool, flowing practice, the Combo wants moisture before it grips, and the B Mat makes sliding awkward.

The B Mat measures 71″ × 26″ against the Combo’s 70″ × 24″, and GearLab listed narrow among the Combo’s cons. The B Mat is also half a millimeter thicker, and in GearLab’s pen-and-cinder-block test its rubber compressed slightly and bounced back quickly.

Despite the bigger footprint, the B Mat is the lighter carry at 4.1 pounds against 4.9 (GearLab weighed the Combo at 4.6). The Combo comes with a carry strap; b, halfmoon’s page doesn’t list one.

The Combo can be laundered. Hand washing is Yoga Design Lab’s preference, but a gentle cycle with mild soap is allowed as long as your washer has no center agitator, and the mat hangs to dry. GearLab found it needs no scrubbing and comes out of the wash smelling fresh. For a heavy sweater, that’s a real advantage.

The B Mat gets plain water and neutral soap, or b, halfmoon’s cleanser, and an air dry. GearLab says it repels sweat, so it never needs soaking.

GearLab says both collect lint, and the B Mat grabs dirt, hair and lint so readily that GearLab suggests a mat bag for storage. Water can mark both, too. GearLab found water stains on its B Mat and suggests a darker color, and one Combo owner says using more water left stains they can’t get out.

Neither suits a latex allergy. The Combo puts recycled PET microfiber over natural tree rubber. The B Mat is all rubber, a blend of natural and synthetic according to b, halfmoon’s FAQ, and is OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified.

GearLab likened the B Mat’s smell out of the box to tires and found it gone after two days of airing out of direct sun. b, halfmoon asks you to leave the mat wrapped until first use, to prevent oxidation, and to roll it logo side out. Yoga Design Lab wants the printed face on the outside when you roll the Combo, to prevent creasing.

b, halfmoon’s refund window is 30 days, and the mat must be unused and still packaged; sale items are final. Yoga Design Lab’s terms are nearly the same: 30 days from receipt, unused, repackaged as it arrived, and nothing marked final sale. You can’t try either one in class and change your mind.

b, halfmoon adds a year of warranty cover, though it won’t cover sun damage, stains or normal wear such as marks at hand and foot positions. Owners in GearLab’s market research describe peeling at exactly those spots and the grip weakening after that. Yoga Design Lab states no warranty, and GearLab scored the Combo’s materials 5 out of 10.

The B Mat Everyday is $118 from b, halfmoon in seven colorways at last count, and it isn’t sold on Amazon; 173 reviews on the brand’s site average 4.8 stars. There’s an 85″ × 26″ Everyday Long, and our B Mat Strong vs Everyday page covers the 6 mm version.

The Combo is $117 at Yoga Design Lab, in 19 printed designs in the 3.5mm at last count. You can also check the Combo at Amazon, where shoppers give it 4.6 stars across roughly 620 ratings.

Get the B Mat Everyday if sweaty hands are the problem and you want a surface that grips through a puddle rather than one that has to absorb it. It’s wider, lighter and backed by an independent review. Expect a tire smell for a couple of days, lint, and a mat that grabs when you try to slide.

Get the Combo if you want a mat you can wash, you practice slower styles, or a print matters to you, and keep a towel close for heated classes. If an absorbent top appeals but the Combo’s grip scores don’t, the IUGA vs B Mat Everyday page sets a sweat-absorbing PU mat against the same rubber.