Guides
Guides are published weekly and gather here as they appear.
What is published?
11 guides published to date, latest at the front.
A table of numbers copied off manufacturers' pages is not a reference, and building one would defeat the purpose of this site.
Is batting or shredded cotton fill better on night one and night three hundred?
Two cotton pillows can carry identical labels and feel nothing alike. One is built from carded sheets of cotton batting laid in layers, and the other is packed with loose, torn tuf
Can you wash a cotton pillow, and what happens if you do?
You can get a cotton pillow wet, but the fill inside rarely returns to the shape it had before. Whether a wash is worth the risk depends on what the seller built the pillow to surv
Is a 100% cotton pillow worth buying?
On a US store page, "cotton pillow" can mean two different things. It can be a pillow stuffed with cotton batting, or a down or polyester pillow in a cotton shell. Which one arrive
What should you check before buying a cotton pregnancy pillow?
Most pillows sold as organic cotton pregnancy pillows put the cotton on the outside. In the seller pages we read, half used cotton as the fill, and none of those came in a curved U
Does a GOTS label on a pillow cover the fill, or only the cover?
A pillow, even a plain 20 by 26 inch standard, is 2 parts: a cover sewn around a fill. A GOTS claim can belong to either part or to the finished pillow, and many listings print the
How much should a cotton pillow weigh, by size?
A cotton-filled pillow is heavy for its size. The weight on the product page is the quickest clue to how full it is, yet most sellers leave that number off. This page collects the
What should you check in an organic cotton and organic buckwheat bed pillow?
A pillow sold as organic cotton and organic buckwheat makes two claims under one name. The cotton shell falls under a textile standard. The buckwheat hulls fall under a farm progra
What should you check before buying an organic cotton pillow?
An organic cotton pillow is a woven cotton case filled with cotton batting. Some or all of that cotton was grown under organic rules. The word on a listing can describe the whole p
Does staple length decide how long a cotton pillow stays useful?
Staple length is the length of a cotton fiber. It is graded on every bale grown in the United States. It affects how well cotton holds together, first as yarn in the pillow cover a
What is organic cotton pillow fill, and what four forms does it come in?
Organic cotton makes up a thin slice of the world's crop. By Textile Exchange's estimate, 1.4% of all cotton grown in 2020/21 was organic (Textiles Partnership, citing Textile Exch
Why do cotton pillows flatten, and how much of it can you reverse?
A cotton pillow that arrived thick and springy can end up closer to a folded towel, and the question most people ask is whether that height is gone for good. Some of it is lost, an