A kapok pillow that has gone flat is not worn out. It is crushed.
Erin and Dusty already sleep on kapok and theirs has lost its height, which is the most useful starting point a tester can have. They know what the fill felt like new, so they can tell you what changed and why it changed.
Their side-by-side has not run yet.
The two they are swapping, and the one that does both jobs at once.
Both of them sleep on their side, and Dusty wakes up warm with occasional neck stiffness. Those are two different problems, so they are testing two different answers for a fortnight each rather than guessing which one to keep.
Wild-Harvested Kapok
Every fiber is a hollow tube 80 to 90 percent air, with a wall between one and two microns thick. That is why a pillow full of it feels like down and weighs almost nothing, and it is also why an old one goes flat. Years of head weight collapse the tubes and they do not spring back, so what you are feeling in a tired kapok pillow is crushed fiber rather than worn fabric. A fresh one is a different object. Organic cotton cover, and nothing chemical touches the fiber from seed pod to pillow.
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Organic Wool
You stay cool because you stay dry. Each fiber pulls up to 30 percent of its own weight in moisture off your skin and holds it inside the strand, so the air at your face never turns damp and heat keeps leaving your body. Wool also holds its height under a shoulder better than an airy fill does, which is the reason it suits a side sleeper who runs warm. Certified organic across the fill and the cover together on licence GOTS-10229 through Oregon Tilth.
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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 so the height does not move, and a layer of organic wool sits at the face so your cheek meets something soft. It is the answer when somebody wants the support of hulls and cannot get used to a granular surface. Organic cotton cover.
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Every pillow you have ever owned was made somewhere you were not invited.
Ours are sewn one at a time in a New Jersey workshop that has been making natural bedding since 1981. Nothing is stockpiled and nothing is made until somebody orders it, which is why the build takes four to seven days and why we can tell you which hands did it.
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Six natural fills, one workshop.
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 EatMoveRest.
A swaps list is the hardest place to put a pillow, because everything else on the list has an ingredient label and a pillow has a cover. You can read a bottle. You cannot read a pillow, and the part that matters is the part sealed inside it.
Erin told us their kapok had gone flat and that both of them sleep on their side. That is enough to plan a real test rather than a mailout. Fresh kapok for one of them gives a direct read against the pair they own, wool for the other gives the comparison, and swapping after two weeks means each of them sleeps on both.
Two of our six fills carry the Global Organic Textile Standard across the finished pillow on licence GOTS-10229 through Oregon Tilth, and those are the organic cotton and the organic wool. Kapok is a wild-harvested seed fiber and sits outside the scope of textile certification, so it carries an organic cotton cover and we describe it by what happens to it, which is very little.
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. Side sleepers usually keep more than they expect, because the gap between shoulder and ear is the widest gap any position asks a pillow to fill. On the wool, peel a full sheet off the outside rather than tearing at the middle.
What their viewers ask first
Why did my kapok pillow go flat?
The fiber is a hollow tube with a wall one to two microns thick. Under the weight of a head, night after night, those tubes crush and stay crushed, so the pillow loses height without anything visibly wearing out. Fluffing brings some of it back for a night. Nothing brings a collapsed tube back for good, which is why kapok is a fill you replace rather than repair.
Can you wash these?
The cover comes off and goes in the machine cold, then line dry. The fill does not get washed. Air the pillow in indirect sun for a couple of hours every few months and it stays fresh, and each pillow ships with a care card for the specific material inside it.
We both sleep on our side. Same pillow for both of us?
Rarely, and the reason is height rather than preference. The gap between shoulder and ear is different for two people in the same bed, so the fill you keep is different too. That is why every pillow ships full and opens at the side, and why two people can start from the same box and end up an inch apart.
How long does an order take?
Every pillow is made to order in one 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 wrong for you.
Start with the fill that fits.
Take the quiz, find your match, and sleep on it for sixty nights.
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