Welcome home to your cotton pillow.
The one fiber pillow that holds its shape for years instead of months, with every layer of it certified organic. Everything it does, and how to keep it supportive for the long run.
The pillow you stop replacing.
Most pillows start fine and slowly lose their shape, until one morning you wake up in a divot and buy another one. Cotton breaks that cycle, because of density. It is the most tightly packed fiber fill we make, so your head compresses it slowly and evenly over years instead of weeks.
Supportive and familiar from the first night.
Cotton is the easiest pillow to move to. Lie down and it feels the way a pillow is supposed to feel, from the very first night. The support you feel the first night is the support you feel a year later, so you stop waking up in a crater and stop shopping for the next pillow.
Most pillows die in months. Density is why this one doesn't.
A pillow goes flat when soft, short fibers pack down under the nightly weight of your head. Cotton resists that longer than any fiber fill we make, and the reason is in the fiber, not a coating that wears off.
Long-staple fiber
The fiber averages 1.25 inches, roughly a quarter longer than the short-staple cotton most pillows use. Long fibers break down less, so the fill makes less dust and stays whole for longer.
Slow, even compression
The dense pack settles over months and years, not weeks, so the height that cradles your neck tonight is still there next year.
A zipper for the long run
When it finally does settle, you add cotton through the side and it is new again, instead of landfill.
Long-staple organic cotton, all the way through.
The fiber inside is long-staple organic cotton, averaging 1.25 inches. Longer fibers shed less lint and work their way out through the cover far more slowly than short ones, so less fluff ends up on your pillowcase. The density is what holds the shape under your head for years.
Most makers reach for short-staple cotton or blend in synthetic fiber to cut the cost. We do not. The cotton is the same cotton that came off the boll, with nothing bleached out, nothing brightened in, and no synthetic blended through it, so it reaches your face as plain clean fiber.
Shape it once, then leave it to work.
Your pillow arrives with about a third more cotton than most people keep, because it is easier to take some out than to wish you had more. You set the height on night one and the pillow you shape is yours to keep.
Unzip and set your height
Open the side and remove cotton until the height matches your position. Side keeps more, back goes medium, stomach goes thin. Keep what you pull out so you can add it back.
Work it loose once a month
Knead the fill by hand for a minute so the fibers redistribute. It is a quick habit that keeps the surface even and the support consistent.
Top up over the years
Air it in the sun a few times a year, and if it ever settles for good, add a handful of refill through the zipper rather than buying a whole new pillow.
You breathe against it all night. It is certified organic as a finished pillow, the cotton inside as well as the cover.
Most cotton pillows are bleached with chlorine, treated with formaldehyde resins, and finished with stain repellents. You spend about a third of your life breathing the air six inches above whatever is left, so we made this one clean at every layer.
Most brands that call a pillow organic certify only the outer cover. Our Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certification was issued on the entire finished pillow, the cotton inside it as well as the cover over it, under license GOTS-10229, audited by Oregon Tilth on site every year.
So none of those compounds went near it at any stage. Your lungs are not filtering off-gassed chemicals eight hours a night, and nothing works its way onto your skin or pillowcase as the pillow ages.
The list most pillow makers hope you never read.
None of it has ever been in a Circadian pillow.
Wash the cover. Freshen the fill.
A cotton pillow asks for almost nothing, and the little it asks is what keeps it supportive long after other pillows flatten.
The cover washes, the fill doesn't
Unzip the cover and tip the cotton into a clean bag, then wash the cover in cold water with a gentle detergent. Put the cotton back once the cover is fully dry.
Never machine wash the cotton fill itself. Water clumps and damages the fiber.
Work it loose by hand
A one-minute knead redistributes the fibers so the height stays even and the pillow keeps its shape.
Spot-clean any small marks with cool water and a little mild soap.
Air it, then refill it
Air it in indirect sun a few times a year. When it finally settles, a cotton refill brings it back.
Questions any time? Email jacob@circadianrest.com.
The rest of the bed
Made by the same hands, in the same New Jersey workshop, to the same standard.
That's everything. Sleep well.
Anything at all, reply to any email from us or write to jacob@circadianrest.com. A real person in the workshop answers.
