One pillow tells you it is comfortable. Two tell you what you like.
Kelsey asked for organic cotton and we sent kapok alongside it, because a single pillow can only be judged against whatever you slept on last. Two fills in the same week is a comparison, and a comparison is something a viewer can use.
Her review has not gone up yet.
The two she is comparing, and the one that splits the difference.
Cotton and kapok sit at opposite ends of the six. One is the densest fill we make and one is the airiest, so putting them side by side tells you more in a week than a single pillow tells you in a month.
Organic Cotton
Long-staple cotton is the densest fill in the lineup. It compresses slowly and evenly under the weight of your head, so the height you set on night three is close to the height you have on night three hundred, and there is no sinking halfway through the night. Certified organic across the fill and the cover together under the Global Organic Textile Standard, licence GOTS-10229 through Oregon Tilth.
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Wild-Harvested Kapok
Every fiber is a hollow tube 80 to 90 percent air with a wall one to two microns thick, which is why it reads like down and weighs almost nothing in your hand. That same hollow structure is why an old kapok pillow goes flat, because the tubes crush under years of head weight and never spring back. A fresh one is the closest thing we make to a cloud. Organic cotton cover.
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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 matters if you sleep on your side. Certified organic end to end on licence GOTS-10229.
Shop the wool →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 Kelsey.
Kelsey said yes in May, picked her second fill in June, and then heard nothing from us for eight weeks. That was our failure and there is no version of it that was her fault, so this page exists partly as the thing we should have built the first week.
The reason two pillows went out instead of one is that the six fills are the product. A reviewer holding one pillow can tell you whether it is comfortable. A reviewer holding two can tell you which kind of person each one is for, which is the question a viewer came to have answered.
Two of the six carry the Global Organic Textile Standard across the finished product on licence GOTS-10229 through Oregon Tilth. Those are the cotton and the wool. Kapok, buckwheat hulls and the hybrid sit outside the scope of textile certification, so they carry organic cotton covers and we name that scope rather than blur it.
— Jacob KatzFounder, Circadian
The height is yours to set, and it takes about a minute.
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, remove a handful at a time, and stop when your head sits level with your shoulders. If you go too far, it goes back in. On the wool, peel a full sheet off the outside rather than tearing at the middle.
What Kelsey's viewers ask first
Cotton or kapok, which should I start with?
If you like a pillow that holds still under your head, start with the cotton. If you like one you can punch into shape and sink into, start with the kapok. Side sleepers with a wide gap between shoulder and ear usually want the cotton or the wool, because an airy fill compresses further under that load.
What does the certification cover?
On the organic cotton and the organic wool it covers the finished pillow, the material inside and the cover over it together, under licence GOTS-10229 issued by Oregon Tilth. Most brands certify the outer fabric alone and describe the whole pillow as organic anyway. Our other four fills use an organic cotton cover and sit outside that standard's scope, so we do not call them certified organic.
Is there a code for viewers?
No public discount code. Circadian runs a partner programme through Impact rather than coupon codes, so anything Kelsey shares will be a tracked link rather than a code.
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 send it back 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.
A partnership between Kelsey Ryan and Circadian.
