Buckwheat Pillows

How long have your expensive feather, down, and foam filled pillows been lasting? First of all, the experts tell us that we should discard our pillows every six months due to excessive dist mite infestations. Those disgusting little critters love to live and reproduce in them. Just imagine what your face is lying on after six months. It’s enough to give you nightmares, or at least an allergic reaction.

Feather and foam fillings also deteriorate in their ability to maintain their loft. You can try to maintain it by fluffing them up every day, but you’ll slowly lose the battle.

Buckwheat hulls, on the other hand, improve with use. Over time, use will cause the minute ridges and edges to wear smooth, allowing the malleability of the pillow to slowly improve, reaching near to its supreme best in about one year, still improving, but more slowly after that.

The best part, though, is that the buckwheat hulls do not support the dust mite infestations. When you want to clean the coverings, simply open the nylon zipper, pour the hulls into a plastic bag (which should be supplied with the pillow), wash and dry as you would a pillow case, and replace the hulls, which are now even better than they were when they were new.

If you like, you can spread the hulls in a layer in the sunlight to freshen them. Just don’t do it outside if there is a breeze. People down wind may wonder what those little black flecks are wafting along in the air.

So, replace those dust mite zoos with buckwheat pillows, and replace your nightmares with sweet dreams.