A certification is a claim until somebody says what it covers.
Elizabeth writes for readers who check. So the useful thing to publish is which of the six pillows the certification reaches, and where it stops, in plain words, before you have to ask anyone.
Her bedding guide is still in progress.
The two she is testing, and the one the certification reaches end to end.
The quiz routed Elizabeth to buckwheat, and the hybrid went with it so she can feel what happens when a layer of wool sits between her cheek and the hulls. The cotton is the third because it is where the certification runs the whole way through.
USA-Grown Buckwheat
Hulls flex under the weight of your head and then interlock, so your neck stays where you put it until morning rather than sinking through the night. Ours are air-jet polished before they go in, which knocks the rough pyramid shape into flat pieces and cuts the shifting noise by up to 68 percent. That noise is the reason most people quit a hull pillow in week one. Grown in the United States, sterilized with ultraviolet light rather than a chemical wash, organic cotton cover.
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Buckwool Hybrid
One insert, a divider down the middle, and each chamber has its own zipper. Hulls carry the load underneath and a layer of organic wool sits at the face, so you get the height that holds and a surface that stays soft against your cheek. Some nights want the firm side and some nights want the soft one. Organic cotton cover.
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Organic Cotton
The densest fill in the lineup. Long-staple cotton compresses slowly and evenly, so the height you set on night three is close to the height you have on night three hundred. On this one and on the wool the Global Organic Textile Standard covers the finished pillow, the material inside and the cover over it together, on licence GOTS-10229 through Oregon Tilth.
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Every pillow shares the same organic cotton cover and comes out of the same partner workshop in New Jersey, which has been making natural bedding since 1981.
Why we built a page for Conscious Life and Style.
Elizabeth asked a question most editors do not, which is where our certification comes from and who holds it. We make under private label at a partner workshop in New Jersey. The workshop has been making natural bedding since 1981, and we are licensed under its scope certificate, which is why the paperwork carries a company name that is not ours.
Two of the six fills carry the Global Organic Textile Standard across the finished product on licence GOTS-10229 through Oregon Tilth: the organic cotton and the organic wool. The other four use an organic cotton cover and sit outside the scope of that standard, which is written for cultivated textile fiber. Hulls are a food byproduct and kapok is a wild-harvested seed fiber, so neither one can hold it.
The latex is slow-pour Dunlop, poured and cured in a single mould so it sets at an even density top to bottom. It holds OEKO-TEX Standard 100 at Class 1, the tier written for products a baby touches. If you have read anywhere that we use a different pour method, that was our error and this is the correct answer.
— Jacob KatzFounder, Circadian
Shape it once, and it fits you for good.
Every Circadian pillow arrives full, about a third more than most people keep, because it is easier to take some out than to wish you had more. Open the side zipper, take some out a handful at a time, and stop when your head sits level with your shoulders. If you go too far, it goes back in. Give a hull pillow three nights before you decide, because the first two are your neck learning that the height is not going to move.
What Conscious Life and Style readers ask first
Which pillows are certified organic and which are not?
The organic cotton and the organic wool are certified across the finished product, fill and cover together, on licence GOTS-10229 issued by Oregon Tilth. The kapok, the buckwheat, the hybrid and the latex use an organic cotton cover and sit outside the scope of that standard, so we describe them by material and process instead of borrowing the word.
Why can hulls not be certified?
The standard is written for cultivated textile fiber, and it certifies a chain from field to finished textile. A hull is what is left after the grain is milled for food, so it enters the supply chain through a food route that the framework has no path for. This is true across the industry rather than particular to us.
Is a buckwheat pillow loud?
Less than you expect. Standard hulls are rough pyramids with pointed edges that catch on each other. Ours are air-jet polished first, which breaks those pyramids into flat sides and cuts the movement noise by up to 68 percent against unpolished hulls in our own testing. What is left is a soft rustle like dry leaves, and most people stop hearing it inside a week.
How long does an order take to arrive?
Every pillow is made to order in the New Jersey workshop. Four to seven days to build, plus transit, and a tracking number goes out the day it leaves. Free shipping. Sleep on it for up to 60 nights and return it for a full refund if it is not right for you.
Start with the fill that fits.
Take the quiz, find your match, and sleep on it for sixty nights.
A partnership between Conscious Life and Style and Circadian.
