Why switch to sleeping on silk?
Why switch to sleeping on silk?
Silk is one of Mother Nature’s miracle workers.
It’s a naturally soft and smooth fabric that prevents your hair from catching and snagging on fibres while you sleep, helping you wake up with salon-perfect hair each morning.
Madonna may have famously sung ‘satin sheets are very romantic’ in Express Yourself, but silk is what you want for A list hair and skin!
Here’s the low-down on why silk is a super-fabric for your hair and skin:
Smoother, healthy hair
Sleeping on a silk pillowcase can keep your hair soft and smooth throughout the night as it doesn’t snag on silk’s soft and smooth fabric. The next morning your hair is less tangled, oily, dry, rough, frizzy or knotted.
Glowing skin
Silk is a naturally porous protein fibre. Over 97% of pure silk contains 18 essential amino acids which benefit your skin by hydrating and nourishing.
Anti-ageing
Silk’s serine can also help increase the vitality of skin cells and prevent skin aging and wrinkles.
Keeps your face cream on you, not on the pillow
Silk is less absorbent than cotton, so your face cream or serum stays put on your skin rather than rubbing off onto the pillowcase.
Temperature regulating
Clever silk keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer. Its warmth retention is better than cotton or wool to keep you warm in winter, while it’s a breathable fabric to keep you cool in the summer.
Promotes good sleep
The amino acids found in silk protein can help improve the quality of your sleep by absorbing the body’s sweat, keeping you comfortable while you sleep and helping prevent conditions such as rheumatism and arthritis.
Hypoallergenic
Perfect for allergy sufferers, silk is a naturally hypoallergenic fabric for a great night’s sleep with no irritants.
Antibacterial
And in these times of super-cleanliness being a top priority for our health, silk’s sericin helps prevent and repel mites, germs and moulds.
A silk pillowcase is a little luxury that will reward you with great hair and skin night in, night out. Check out our range of luxury silk mulberry pillowcases, eye masks and hair scrunchies over in the Shop.
Sweet dreams x
Jess