How to choose the pillow on which to sleep comfortably

How to choose the height and stiffness of pillows

When choosing the height and stiffness pillows posture plays an important role, where you usually sleep. If you are in doubt about what kind of posture, spend several nights in the study.

When you feel you are falling asleep, soak a few minutes on his back, then on his side and on his stomach. Assess the situation in which you feel most comfortable. For example, if you lay on your stomach for half an hour, but did not fall asleep, it is unlikely your usual posture. Pay attention to the position in which you wake up in the morning. Record all your observations, so as not to get confused.

• If you like to sleep on the back, Choose a medium height pillow (8-10 cm), medium hardness, and possibly with a recess for the head.
• If you sleep on the side, Choose a high enough and tough pillow, because it must fill the space between the shoulder and ear and supports the neck well. The height of the pillow should be equal to the width of your shoulder - the segment of the base of the neck to the shoulder point.

• If you sleep on the stomach, You need a soft and thin, almost flat pillow height of 6-8 cm. If you completely do without this, put a pillow under the stomach to avoid pain waist.
• If you constantly flips, Choose a pillow of medium height. It must be soft enough so that it could somehow adjust itself to the current sleep posture.

How to choose the pillow filler

Excipients are now very much. Manufacturers give them their names, combining different types of materials, complicates the internal structure of pillows.

Modern pillow - it is not just a bag full of fluff.

Inside the spring may be several chambers filled with a filler, several layers of different fillers rollers hidden under a neck pillow of the invention and other industries.

So we talk about quite popular materials and write the questions that must be answered before you go to the store: so you will be able to explain to the consultant that is looking for.

1. What hardness of cushion you need?

Of the most common fillers are the softest down (natural and artificial), hollofayber, bamboo, cotton, silk.

Wool material with a memory effect, the gel is considered to be medium soft fillers.

Hard filler - it is latex, buckwheat husk.

2. Do you sweat heavily at night? Is it possible that you are hot on the pillow?

If you wake up in the morning on a wet pillow, head hot and stuffy though, it means that the filler and / or pillow cover bad leak air, do not breathe.

Have good air pillows of down, bamboo, silk. However, synthetic and natural fillers not yield: interwoven fibers therein so that the air-filled space remains between them.

If the pillow breathing, it is elastic to the touch and quickly recovers its shape after compression.

Breathability pillows and latex foam is provided with a memory effect material and porosity vents.

3. Important to you, how much time will take care of the pillow?

Someone easily several times a year to bring their pillows to the dry cleaners, and someone does not have time even to throw them in the washing machine.

The most demanding of care - pillows made of natural feathers and down: they must be regularly dry, beating at bedtime to evenly distribute the filler, and periodically taken to the dry cleaners, as they do not themselves clean out. Bags made of wool will also give the art.

Pillows filled with buckwheat husk is recommended to clean with a vacuum cleaner. Once a year, will have to empty husk, sift and fall asleep in the already-washed cover.

Bamboo, silk and synthetic pillows can be washed in the machine. And on pillows made of latex or a material with memory effect simply replace the pillow case.

4. How long do you need a pillow?

Most short-lived cushions are made of bamboo, hollofaybera, artificial fluff. Three years later, or even before the filler can stray into clumps, and the cushion becomes unsuitable for proper sleep.

Pillows made of materials with memory effect, natural down and feathers, high-quality synthetics will last up to five years.

The most durable - latex pillows. Their service life - 10 years or even longer with proper maintenance.

5. Do you have any allergies? If so, what exactly?

Everything is clear: it is not necessary to choose the vehicle, to which you are allergic. The most powerful allergen is considered to be feathers. But the symptoms can cause unpleasant and bamboo cushion, in which divorced many microorganisms.

How to choose the form of pillows

Again back to your posture for sleep. If you sleep on your back, choose a rectangular cushion. It can be a roller or recessed under the neck, if you will be comfortable.

Sleeping on your side will approach a rectangular cushion. Here, too, appropriate roll under the neck and seizure under the shoulder.

Sleeping on your stomach, choose a low rectangular pillow or a pillow in the shape of a star.

Checklist pillows buyer

Stocked theory, now we have to figure out what to do if the store sea of ​​pillows, and a zealous counselor already entices you to purchase. Here is a check list of your actions:

1. Tell consultant, what kind of pillow you are looking for (stiffness, materials, cost). Ask, if you have trouble sleeping.
2. Do not hesitate to find out the properties of the consultants pillows, fillers, covers. Moreover, it is desirable that you have explained some features of materials allows the pillow to breathe, remove moisture and so on.
3. Try to lie down on the pillows offered. Please rate your feelings. With the right height and shape of the pillow you should feel relaxed, is nowhere to be clamps, kinks.
4. Remember, better write down the characteristics of the offered you a pillow. Home, read about the specific properties of the excipients. Study reviews about pillows selected brands.
5. No matter how carefully you may choose a pillow in the store to assess her need to sleep on it for a week. Because comfort cushion will depend even on your mattress (It is softer than the thinner should cushion). Therefore, to find out if it will be possible to test a pillow at home and return it if it does not fit. Law "On Protection of Consumer Rights" allows a refund if the goods were not in use, keep the look, consumer properties, seals, factory labels. But some stores are going to meet buyers. Thus, the IKEA offers for 14 days to sleep on new pillow and exchange it if it will be uncomfortable.