Five steps, a few minutes
Set the height tonight
Scroll and we will walk you through it on the pillow itself.
Your Circadian Owner's Guide
Welcome home to your wool pillow.
You chose one of the few pillows that works for you while you sleep. Here is everything it does, and how to make it yours.
Handmade in New JerseyGOTS Certified Organic, license GOTS-1022960-night trial
Begin
What you brought home
Wool is the rare pillow that works while you sleep.
Most fills just sit there and stay cool for a while. Wool does two things on its own, all night, and both trace straight back to a better night for you.
You stay cool because you stay dry.
Here is what actually overheats you at night. Often it is not the room, it is the moisture. Sweat and humidity get trapped against your skin, and damp skin is what your brain reads as too hot. So you kick off the covers and surface out of deep sleep without ever fully waking.
Wool ends that at the source. The fibers pull moisture off your skin and hold it in their core, up to 30% of their own weight, before the surface ever feels damp. A cooling gel cannot do this. It soaks up your heat for about twenty minutes, matches your body, and gives up.
So your skin stays dry, the overheated feeling never builds, and you stay down in the deep sleep that is the whole point. Wake up with a damp pillow now? That is usually gone inside a week.
0%of its weight in moisture the wool pulls away while staying dry to the touch.
Why you'll breathe easier on it
The reason your nose is worst in bed.
Most nighttime allergies are not random. They are dust mites, and wool is one of the only fills that turns them away through the fiber itself.
Dust mites live in bedding. They feed on the dead skin every one of us sheds, and their waste is the allergen. Your face spends about eight hours a night pressed right into it, which is exactly why the stuffy nose, the sneezing, and the itchy eyes are worst in bed and first thing in the morning.
And it does not stop at discomfort. A congested nose makes you breathe shallower, mouth-breathe, and surface out of deep sleep again and again without knowing it. Worse breathing is worse sleep, and worse sleep reaches into everything: your energy, your focus, how your body recovers overnight.
Dust mites live in ordinary bedding
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Their allergens sit right at your face
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A blocked nose, shallower breathing
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Sleep that never reaches deep
Wool interrupts the cycle at the source, three ways, none of them sprayed on.
Too dry for dust mites
Wool moves moisture off the surface and into the fiber, so the air at your face stays under the humidity mites need.
Mites cannot drink
Dust mites cannot drink. They take water from the air and need it above roughly 50% humidity to live. Wool keeps the air at your face below that, so they never settle.
Nothing to wear off
Nothing was applied to the wool. The dryness is in the fiber itself, so there is nothing to wear off and nothing to wash out.
Fewer allergens where you breathe means a clearer nose, deeper breaths, and the kind of unbroken sleep your body actually repairs itself in. No allergen cover, no treatment that washes out. It is the fiber, and it does not wear off.
Inside the pillow
Springy wool in a sateen cover.
The cover is organic cotton sateen, the smoothest weave cotton makes, and it is what your cheek is on all night. The wool underneath does the temperature work.
The crimp in each fiber works like a spring, which is why it holds its height for years instead of matting down in months. You feel it as a pillow that stays the way you set it.
Fiber
Naturally wavy, undyed
Moisture it wicks
Up to 30%
Certified organic
The finished pillow
Make it yours
Shape it once, and it fits you for good.
Your pillow arrived with about a third more wool than most people keep, because it is easier to ease some out than to wish you had more back. A few minutes tonight sets the height your neck wants, and it holds there.
Inside
Step 01
Open the zipper
The full-length YKK zipper runs along the side seam.
Step 02
Lift off a layer
The wool comes as soft layers, and some stay joined at a fold. Slide your fingers under the top layer nearest the zipper and lift it away. If it stays joined, lift it off at the crease. Keep what comes out whole and flat.
Step 03
Take it to your height
Remove a little at a time until the height fits how you sleep. Keep what you set aside.
- Side · tall
Keep most of the fill
The pillow fills the gap between your ear and the mattress. Keep wool until your head rests level with the rest of your body.
This is you - Back · medium
Ease a little out
Keep the gentle curve of your neck, with the hollow under it filled and your head lower. Lift the top fold away from the outside and open it at the crease, rather than reaching into the middle. Take off one layer at a time until you rest looking straight up.
This is you - Stomach · low
Take most of it out
A tall pillow tips your head back and strains your neck. Remove most of the wool so your head and shoulders sit close to level with the mattress.
This is you
Step 04
Even out the corners
Tuck the remaining wool into the corners so the height sits even, then zip it closed.
Step 05
Sleep on it
Give it two or three nights before you change anything else.
If it ever feels lumpy
Lay the layers flat again
Open it up, lift the layers out from the outside, lay them flat again, and fold them back in so they reach the corners. Wool settles as you use it, and a quick reshape brings the height right back.
Every few months
Give it a few hours of sun
Lay the pillow in indirect sunlight. Sun and fresh air revive the height and freshen the wool with no washing at all.
Years from now
Keep what you set aside
Keep the wool you set aside in a bag. Years from now, a little added back brings the height to full again.
Clean the whole way through
The cleanest air in your home may be right above this pillow.
You breathe against this pillow for about a third of your life, closer to it than to almost anything you own. The material is not a detail. It is the air you take in all night.
GOTS Certified Organic10229Oregon Tilth · GOTS v7.0Audited on site, every year
Most pillows meet that breath with chemistry. Polyurethane and synthetic treatments that off-gas, dyes and finishes sitting on the surface an inch from your face. Most wool pillows are no better, short-staple wool blended with polyester, scoured with harsh detergents, dyed with chrome-based compounds, and moth-treated with synthetic insecticides.
Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) license GOTS-10229, issued by Oregon Tilth, covers this pillow as a finished thing, the wool inside it as well as the cover over it. Most brands certify the outer cover alone and call the whole pillow organic, which leaves the wool your face presses into all night outside the audit. An independent auditor went through this one to the wool itself and found none of that chemistry. The wool is long-staple, cleaned with biodegradable detergent, left undyed in its natural cream-to-tan color, with the lanolin still on every fiber. So the air closest to your face all night is just fiber.
What you're not sleeping on
The list most pillow makers hope you never read.
None of it has ever been in a Circadian pillow.
Keep it for years
Wash the cover. Let the wool be.
The same dryness that keeps mites away keeps the wool fresh. Most of its care is leaving it alone.
Every week or two
Wash the cover, not the wool
Lift the wool out and keep it flat and dry in a clean bag. Wash the cover in cool water with a gentle detergent, then reshape it damp and air dry.
Keep the wool out of water, which felts and mats it for good. A damp cloth lifts the occasional spill.
It never goes to a dry cleaner, because the solvent strips the wool's natural lanolin and flattens its crimp. For a mark, spray on three parts water to one part vinegar and let the sun dry it. Let the wool dry fully before it goes back in the cover.
Over the years
Reshape and top it up
Lay the folds flat again and even them out when the height dips. When you want more height, add the wool you saved through the zipper.
Cared for this way, it stays with you for years.
A few last questions
The ones we hear most.
Is it vegan?
No, wool comes from sheep. If you want a plant-based pillow, our Wild-Harvested Kapok is fully vegan and down-soft, a hollow fiber roughly 80 to 90 percent air.
How does it compare to a cooling gel pillow?
A gel pillow starts cold and warms to your body temperature within fifteen or twenty minutes, then it is done for the night. Wool manages moisture instead of chasing cold, so it keeps working every hour you are on it. The coolness lasts because the mechanism lasts.
How long will it last?
Three to five years with normal care. Organic wool is resilient, and the zipper lets you add fill as it slowly compresses, so you top it up instead of replacing it.
The rest of your bed
Made by the same hands, in the same New Jersey workshop, to the same standard.
One more thing
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.
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