How to choose a pillow?

Do you know how to choose a pillow that suits your needs?

Many times, when we start looking for our ideal sleeping equipment, we pay special attention to the mattress, but What about the pillows?.

Next we want to help you find the best pillow for each type of sleeper. So you can choose your pillow without mistakes, wherever you find yours, wherever it may be.

Table of contents

Why is it so important to choose a suitable pillow?
Where do I start looking for my pillow?
1. What is your sleeping position?
2. What is the firmness of your mattress?
Guide to know how to choose a good pillow and not make a mistake
The best pillow for you
Don't forget to take care of your pillow
Top 5 best pillows

Why is it so important to choose a suitable pillow?

If you have come this far it is because you want to know how to choose the pillow correct, to improve your quality of rest. But in addition, we want to give you some data that demonstrates the magnitude and scope of this topic, which you may not have known...

- A good pillow, adapted to your rest needs, contributes to good alignment of the spine and helps prevent neck and back pain.

- All sleepers, but especially those who sleep on their side and back, they need to fill the gap created between the surface of the mattress and the head, to avoid neck injuries and achieve greater relaxation of pressure in the shoulder area.

- The maximum quality of rest and the best comfort are only achieved through a mattress that adapts to your needs and a pillow that helps maximize the benefits of that mattress.

Where I start looking for my pillow?

To always make the right choice, we recommend that you solve this simple test to choose a pillow with just 2 questions: In what position do you sleep mostly during the night: on your side, on your back or on your stomach? and What is the firmness of your mattress: low, medium or high? By solving them, you will be able to find the pillow that best suits you very easily

1. What is your sleeping position?

This is the first and the most important. All of them have pros and cons, but regardless of that, we all have our favorite sleeping position and knowing what it is is the perfect starting point to start the search for the best pillow for you.

2. What is the firmness of your mattress?

The second thing you have to know or try to identify is the firmness of your mattress. Said like this, it may seem more complex than it really is, but in practice it is very simple to know. More or less, we all know if our mattress is Soft, Medium or Hard, in terms of firmness.

If you are already clear about these two things, you can now consult the guide that we show you below and that will help you choose a perfect pillow for your rest needs.

Guide to know how to choose a good pillow and not make mistakes

In the following video, a Colchón Exprés advisor will tell you briefly explains how to choose a pillow:

The best pillow for you

If you are looking for a quality pillow, below we show you a video where you can see the new range of Ingravity pillows. After watching it, if you follow the instructions explained below, you will be able to choose the one that best suits you.

And as we have said before, the only thing you have to keep in mind is your sleeping posture and the firmness of your mattress. Well, it's true. Here we go.

1. If you sleep on your side:

We start with this position, because it is the most common:

- And your mattress is softly firm:...and adaptable (this means that it adapts to your body, for example like mattresses with thick layers of viscoelastic padding do), you should choose a very soft and low pillow, which is above all breathable. In this specific case, more than to support the neck and achieve the best alignment for the spine, which is always necessary, the objective that your pillow must fulfill is to offer you cool and breathable support in the head area, which tries to reduce the mold effect that, in excess, can cause a feeling of overwhelm in some very hot sleepers. In this case, a low fiber pillow or a soft breathable viscoelastic pillow, with a cooling effect, of the latest generation, are very good options. If the mattress, on the other hand, is not very adaptable (this means that although soft, it does not sink, so that the mold effect of the previous case is not created, the recommendation is similar in terms of height and firmness, but good adaptability is important. So a low visco or latex pillow is better, for this case. Of course, never forget the breathability!

- If your mattress is of medium or medium-high, you will need to choose a pillow of medium firmness and height. In this case, you should also not leave aside breathability, for a cooler and healthier rest, but in terms of comfort, it depends on taste. In fact, most of the pillows on the market are designed for this type of sleeper, which is the most common. fan. But be careful, because not all of them are the same! At Colchón Exprés, thinking about the special needs of this type of sleeper, we have designed a type of Cervical pillows, not at all orthopedic, that whether you like the firmness of latex or memory foam, we are convinced that if you sleep on your side and your mattress has a medium or high firmness, they can fit you. YANG-out.

- If your mattress is of high firmness and not very adaptable, the pillow you choose should be high and firm, higher the bigger you are, the perfect thickness will be the distance from the base of your neck to the end of your shoulder (you can take a ruler or a meter stick and measure it). that the neck is aligned with the rest of the back, so it is preferable that the firmness be high, but adaptable and always very cool.

2. If you sleep on your back:

While it is true that this is the position most recommended by dermatologists for people with excess oil in the skin, the truth is that it is not so indicated for people who snore or who suffer from apnea...regardless of this, what concerns us: choosing one. pillow. For those who sleep on their back, the pillow should be:

- If you sleep on a soft and adaptable mattress, the recommendation is the same as in the case of sleeping on your side on a mattress with the same characteristics. The pillow should be soft and low, but very breathable.

- If you sleep on a mattress of medium or firmness. high, the pillow should always be of medium height and the firmness and adaptability, although the most recommended is medium, depends on taste and the firmer the mattress, the firmer the pillow can be. The objective should always be to seek the maximum possible alignment of the spine and to do this, a good trick that people who sleep on their backs can use is to match the central part of the shoulder, with the ear. get a cool and restful rest, without feeling overwhelmed. For this type of sleepers, the Termalfresh Medium-out pillow, based on exclusively formulated viscolatex and cover with a silver band in 3D mesh fabric and Cooler-warmer Fabric, is a highly advisable option.

3. If you sleep on your stomach:

According to a study published by the American rest company, Purple, 16% of the population sleeps. upside down.

Unfortunately for this type of sleeper, this resting position is the most inadvisable of all, because although it is true that snoring is reduced, it is the position in which the back suffers the most. Furthermore, it is one where the neck undergoes a permanent rotation for a long time and which can cause, therefore, more problems with torticollis and lower back pain.

Even so, there are many people who only conceive their perfect rest by sleeping on their stomach and for all of them we are going to give a series of aids that can help them rest better.

- Firstly, in relation to the pillow, when sleeping face down on a soft mattress, the perfect place to place the pillow would be under the pelvis. Yes, you heard right, low hip! If the mattress is very soft and adaptable, the area of the body that will suffer the greatest sinking will be the part from the waist down. Therefore, the greatest deviation of the column will occur in this area. If you both placed a pillow between the mattress and the pelvis, we will slightly correct this deviation and we will be helping to relax the back more.

- If you sleep in this position, on a mattress of medium-high or high firmness (on the other hand, the most recommended for this type of position), it is recommended to use a short and soft pillow, like a children's pillow. In this case, I lower my head. The objective that must be met is the same as for the rest of the postures: to avoid deviations in the spine as much as possible.

4. If you need a cervical pillow

If you have recently suffered a neck injury, you snore a lot or you have been recommended to use a cervical pillow:, we also help you choose it. In this case, it is important that you know that your way of sleeping will determine the use of one model or another. For example, if you sleep on your back, our recommendation is the Medium-out Pillow, which is made of high-quality viscolatex and has an ergonomic shape and a honeycomb core with a massage effect. While if you sleep on your side, you can opt for a Termalfresh Yin-in or Yang-out cervical pillow, higher, with a slot so that you can comfortably insert your shoulder and with different firmness so you can choose the one that best fits you.

To get the perfect rest, choosing a mattress that adapts to our needs is as important as choosing a pillow. let him do it too. If we compare our sleeping equipment with a vehicle, the mattress would be the cabin and the pillow would be the wheels. And who wants a new mattress with worn out wheels?

Don't forget to take care of your pillow

And we cannot finish this guide without some brief recommendations on how to take care of your pillow so that they last as long as possible, in the best possible condition.

- Protect your pillow with a pillowcase. pillow. This may seem obvious, but many sleepers are still not aware of it. And if we protect our mattress with a mattress cover to prevent liquids, sweat or even bacteria from penetrating the inner layers, why don't we see it as equally important to protect our pillow? Above all, when the core of the pillow is much less protected than that of a mattress, and many times, factors as common as facial sweat or saliva put our pillow to the test every night. There are many on the market. Some of them, such as those made of Tencel, with a breathable-waterproof treatment, are very soft, completely protect the pillow and also allow you to sleep directly on the protector, as if it were a conventional pillowcase.

- Wash the pillowcase regularly. If you use a protector, you can wash it less frequently, since you are creating a physical barrier against mites and other elements that can put the hygiene of your pillow at risk. Even so, getting yourself a pillow with removable covers, whose cover is machine washable, will allow you to sanitize your rest equipment with the regularity you need in a comfortable and effective way.

With these little tips, we hope we have helped you know how to choose a pillow, wherever it may be. Now you just have to do a little research among the models that we present and find the one that best suits your needs.

Top 5 best pillows

The covers of these pillows are made with the exclusive Cooler-Warmer® Fabric, which allows an improvement in the quality of rest during all times of the year. On the one hand, the Summer Face, which incorporates Cooler® fabric, provides a lasting cold sensation while contributing to better thermoregulation of the resting surface. On the other hand, the Cara Warmer® allows for a more cozy rest, without feeling overwhelmed and is perfect for the colder months

1. Thermalfresh Soft In Viscoelastic Pillow

2. Thermalfresh Medium Out Viscoelastic Pillow

3. Thermalfresh Firm In Viscoelastic Pillow

4. Termalfresh Yin In Cervical Pillow

5. Termalfresh Yang Out Cervical Pillow