Organic bedding, question by question
The eight questions people ask us about bedding.
Every row below is a page that answers one question and recommends the pieces that answer it. The short answer is in the table, so you can decide from here whether the page is worth opening.
| The question | The short answer | What it lands on |
|---|---|---|
| What is the best duvet for hot sleepers? | A wool duvet, because what wakes a hot sleeper is moisture before it is heat. You wake up damp before you wake up hot, and wool takes the damp up into the fiber so the warmth goes out with it. | Organic Wool Duvet |
| What is the best duvet for winter? | The wool duvet for a cold room, the cotton duvet for a cold sleeper who wants weight. A winter duvet is judged hours in, not when you get in, and that is when a duvet that only insulates has already let the warmth out. | Organic Wool Duvet |
| What is the best down alternative duvet? | One filled with a natural fiber instead of polyester. Most down alternative duvets replace the goose with plastic, and ours is layers of organic cotton batting, hand-tufted, with the grounded weight of a real comforter. | Organic Cotton Duvet |
| What is the best bedding for couples who sleep at different temperatures? | One wool duvet if the gap between you is moderate, two twin duvets side by side if it is wide. One of you is sweating and the other is stealing the duvet, and there are only two honest fixes, neither of which is a thermostat. | Organic Wool Duvet |
| What do you sleep under in summer when a duvet is too hot? | A cotton flat sheet, and on the nights that is not enough, the duvet cover on its own with nothing inside it. The duvet is too hot and a sheet alone is too little, and the layer in between is two layers of sateen and no insulation. | Organic Cotton Flat Sheet |
| What is the best bedding for a dust mite allergy? | A wool duvet and a wool pillow, a waterproof protector under the pillowcase, and cotton sheets and covers you wash every week. Your nose is worst in bed because the bed is where the shed skin is, and what the mites need on top of it is humidity. | Organic Wool Duvet |
| What are the best sheets for sensitive skin? | Sheets that skipped the finishing steps: never bleached, never dyed, and never given a wrinkle, softening or stain finish. The sheet is against your skin longer than anything else you own, about a third of your life, with no shirt in between. | Organic Cotton Sheet Set |
| What do you need for a complete organic bed? | Six pieces, from the mattress up: a fitted sheet, a flat sheet, a duvet inside a cover, and a pillow inside a protector and a pillowcase. Replace the bed once and stop thinking about it for a decade. | Organic Cotton Sheet Set |
Each page carries its own sources, its own spec table read live off the products, and the date it was last checked. Prices and ratings on all of them come from the products themselves, so nothing on a page can be older than the store.
