Elsewhere, the soft and smooth nature of silk enables your skin and hair to ‘glide’ across the surface, avoiding friction and eliminating wrinkles, pulled hair and bed head. It’s no wonder every beauty guru around is jumping on the bandwagon and adding a silk bedding set to their boudoir.
Are silk sheets worth it?
When you compare silk to more common fabrics for bed sheets, such as cotton or polyester, silk bedding comes out on top. While cotton has to go through a process to be deemed hypoallergenic, silk is naturally so. Cotton is great at absorbing moisture, but it tends to hold it instead of emitting it like silk, which naturally synchronises with the heat of your body.
The price of a silk bedding set is usually the main turn-off factor for people, but the benefits do seem to outweigh the cons. And there are some more affordable options. This four-piece silk bedding set from Amazon won’t break the bank, nor will this silk-filled duvet from John Lewis. If you do have a little more money to spend, we recommend The White Company’s Audley range, or Lily Silk for an extensive range of 100% Mulberry silk bedding in a whole array of colours to suit your interior style. They’ve got everything from classic white silk bedding to mood-boosting pink silk bedding.
Is silk comfortable to sleep on?
If you think about sleeping on more affordable 100-200 thread count sheets vs 500 count Egyptian cotton bedding, you’d notice a significantly softer feel on your skin each night. When it comes to silk pillows, flat sheets and silk duvet cover sets, you’ll notice another upgrade still. Of course, you can even split up silk sheets into different qualities – be it pure mulberry silk and, on the flip side ‘silk effect’ satin or sateen sheets – but, generally speaking, silk eyemasks, bedspreads and bedding across the board feel cooling on the skin and glide smoothly across you and your nightwear as you sleep. Dreamy.
What is the best type of silk for bedding?
In a dream world, the best type of silk for bedding would be of the mulberry silk variety in the highest grade, A. The grading refers to the cleanliness, evenness and strand length of the silk, with grade 6A (among the already prestigious A category) being the most premium. Grade 6A mulberry silk should have a glossy, ivory silk finish and appears as such because the silkworms used to create the silk are fed a diet of mulberry leaves alone.
After you’ve got your silk type – mulberry – and grading – A – you can then begin to think about the momme which, in layman’s terms, is the concentration of weight in the fabric. The higher the momme, the heavier the feel of the silk so, naturally, this means that higher momme silks will create more of a weighted blanket feel during your night’s sleep. And, well, who wouldn’t want that?
After more sleep content? Let’s start with the basics: head this way for the best bed frames to transform your bedroom, and in this direction for mattresses for your best night’s sleep yet. Next up: over here for mattress toppers, weighted blankets, mattress protectors and body pillows. Finish things off with the best duvet covers, blankets, linen bedding and a good old pillow spray to send you off to the Land of Nod. Oh, and we’ve also found silk pyjamas, silk pillowcases, silk face masks, silk scrunchies and silk hair wraps. Enjoy!
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