Organic cotton pillow

The cleanest air in your home is right above this pillow.

You breathe the air a few inches above your pillow all night. This one is certified organic through every layer, the cotton inside it as well as the cover over it.

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From $89.00. Certified organic through every layer.

★★★★½ 4.71 · 49 reviews
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A Circadian Organic Cotton Pillow on a wooden table, organic cotton at the open zipper

Most organic pillows are only organic on the outside.

Walk through the premium brands and you'll find the same thing under the label: latex or foam wrapped in an organic cotton cover. The cover is certified. The stuffing you breathe on all night is not.

Every layer of this one is organic: the cotton inside it as well as the cover over it, certified by an independent third party under the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), farm through finished pillow. When you press your face into it, the organic part is the part touching your skin.

Hands open a Circadian Organic Cotton Pillow to show the organic cotton inside

Most pillows are bleached, softened with formaldehyde, and finished to repel stains.

Bleach

Conventional cotton is whitened with chlorine. Organic certification allows only oxygen-based methods.

Formaldehyde

The softener behind wrinkle-resistant finishes, and a classified carcinogen. Certification bans it at every stage.

PFAS

The stain repellents people now avoid. There are none here to breathe in.

You breathe the air a few inches above all of it, all night, and a new pillow that smells like chemicals is off-gassing those finishes into your face while you sleep. This one was certified organic through every layer by an independent third party before it was ever sewn, so it has no finishes on it to give off.

The wrong pillow height is the most common reason people wake up sore.

Most pillows come at one fixed height and ask your neck to adapt. This one arrives full, with about 30% more cotton than most people keep, so you can shape it to your own neck. Open the zipper on the short end and take out a handful of fill until your neck sits level, then keep what feels right. The fill you adjust is the fill already inside, so there's nothing extra to store.

It arrives full

About 30% more cotton than most people keep, so you can shape it to your own neck.

Unzip the short end

The cover opens along a hidden zipper. The fill is right there.

Take out until it fits

Lift out a handful at a time until your neck sits level.

Fine-tune over 60 nights

Add or remove as you settle in. Keep it, or send it back on us.

Three sleepers, three heights.

The right height depends on how you sleep.

Higher

Side sleepers need the most fill.

The gap between your ear and the mattress is widest on your side, so you keep more fill in to fill it. A level neck means your spine runs straight from your head to your shoulders instead of bending toward the bed all night.

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Organic cotton spilling from a Circadian pillow by its woven tag

Cotton is the most tightly packed fiber fill we make, denser than wool or kapok.

It holds its shape for years instead of going flat in a season. The long-staple fibers, longer than the short-staple cotton most pillows use, grip each other instead of sliding apart, so the fill compresses slowly and evenly under your weight rather than clumping. When it settles, top it up through the zipper.

You notice it as a pillow that still holds your head in the second year the way it did the first.

Jacob Katz, founder of Circadian, laughing on a bed with Circadian pillows.

I couldn't find a pillow I trusted. So I made one.

Jacob Katz, founder

I spend as much time outside as I can. I wanted my eight hours in bed to be just as clean. Most pillows are foam and polyester, so I made one from plants and wool instead. You open it and set the height to fit your neck. Every pillow is sewn by hand in New Jersey and filled to order.

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Why people switched to this pillow.

★★★★★

Switched from Avocado

Circadian is more adjustable and about the same price. The GOTS cert covers the whole pillow here, not just the cover.
Ryan Torres
★★★★★

This works for my chemical sensitivity

Most organic pillows have an organic cover with conventional fill. The certification here covers the whole pillow. No reactions, sleeping well.
Patricia Henderson
★★★★★

Hotel pillow, but organic

If you've ever stayed at a nice hotel and wished you could buy that pillow without the mystery chemicals, this is basically it.
David Kim

The same words, three different pillows.

 Circadian Organic CottonTypical "organic" pillowBudget organic cotton
What's certified organicThe cotton inside and the coverCover onlyFill and cover, usually
What's inside the coverLong-staple organic cottonLatex or foamShort-staple cotton
Adjustable heightYes, through the zipper on the short endFixedFixed
Holds shape over yearsLong-staple, slow to compressVariesFlattens sooner
MadeBy hand in New JerseyOverseas, usuallyOverseas
Trial60 nights, full refundVariesOften none

The cotton inside is certified, not just the cover.

The cotton inside and the cover over it are both certified organic, made in accordance with the Global Organic Textile Standard. The standard bans chlorine bleaching, requires clean wastewater treatment at every wet-processing step, and traces the cotton from the farm to the finished pillow. Our license is public, so the claim on this page is one you can verify yourself.

GOTS Certified Organic
GOTS-10229
Certified by Oregon Tilth · re-audited on site every year

A few last questions.

Is the whole pillow organic, or just the cover?

The whole pillow. The cotton inside and the cover over it carry the same GOTS Certified Organic status. Most brands certify the cover and leave the fill out, so ask that question everywhere you shop.

How firm is it?

As firm as you make it. It arrives full, and you take cotton out through the zipper on the short end until your head sits level. Side sleepers keep more in, stomach sleepers take more out.

Will it go flat?

Slower than most. The long-staple fiber compresses gradually and evenly instead of clumping, so it holds its shape for years. If it ever settles too low, add fill back or reach out to us.

What if it isn't right for me?

Sleep on it for 60 nights. If it isn't your pillow, send it back for a full refund. Most orders arrive in four to seven days.

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Handmade in New Jersey, certified organic inside and out, and yours to adjust. Keep it or send it back on us.

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