What's on your pillow?

KSav said:
I haven't heard anything about silk pillowcases helping with wrinkles, but I've read several stories of them being much kinder on the hair.
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they really do help with your hair, especially if you have fine hair as I do, keeps it from breaking off... and knotting ... . I wouldn't have silk sheets I only ever have cotton, but silk p/cases always
 

My hair looks equally bad in the morning after a night of sleeping on my mulberry silk pillowcase. Now I alternate between it and sateen. Since I keep it short, I have no issues with hair breakage.

I also have a mulberry silk eye mask. It’s quite large and soft and definitely keeps the light out.
 
Ha ha ..... It just occurred to me that this is the senior version of "pillow talk".
Anyway, I suppose many people have a love affair with their pillow. In fact some even have full body pillows, but it's hard to find a lot of actual evidence that the material the pillow case is made from contributes to wrinkles. There are some studies (Few and small) that do reveal a correlation between materials and outcome, but in some claims they may be a bit exaggerated.

From what I understand the logic is this: Mechanical friction against the face can cause creases that are most noticeable when you first wake up and look in the mirror. Over time they can become more pronounced and voila .... wrinkles. However, the secondary factor is absorption. Cotton tends to absorb more moisture from the face, and less absorbent materials, not so much. The more moisture the skin retains, the more elasticity it has.

It makes sense to me, but maybe any material that helps you get a better night's sleep may have the same effect. IDK
 
Very little of my face is actually on the pillow because I sleep on my side, and only the outer edge of my face (like my jawboneand back of head) rests against the pillow. When I turn over, it's the same - the opposite side of my face is on the opposite end of the pillow, never in the middle. I know this because I'm a light sleeper, and briefly wake up when turning over. No matter what fabric my pillow case was made of, I couldn't sleep with my face directly in the middle of the pillow, since the center of the pillow would sink down and cover my nose too much to breathe.
 
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Jules said:
My hair looks equally bad in the morning after a night of sleeping on my mulberry silk pillowcase. Now I alternate between it and sateen. Since I keep it short, I have no issues with hair breakage.

I also have a mulberry silk eye mask. It’s quite large and soft and definitely keeps the light out.
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I also have a couple of those.. I don't need them for sleeping at home because I have blackout blinds and curtains , but I take the when I go to sleep at Hotels etc...
 
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