My hair has really given me a run for my money post-partum and although I found a great product that helps a lot, I also regularly color it which isn’t making the situation any better. I had a second major round of hormonal hair loss a few months ago and my newest baby hairs are constantly sticking up at all angles.
My hairdresser has been trying to convince me to sleep on a silk pillowcase for years but when I tried it last year, I gave up after only a few nights because I didn’t like the way it felt. I’m a cotton gal, through and through! And I was skeptical that it actually did anything.
But then a few months ago my dermatologist made the same suggestion for wrinkle prevention and I decided to give it another shot. After three solid months of sleeping on silk, which makes me feel very fancy by the way, I am a convert. Like to the point where I can’t travel without it.
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Silk Pillowcase Review: 4 Reasons why I love it
My skin looks better. Unless you sleep on your back, your face most likely makes contact with your pillow for most of the night. I don’t know about you, but for me, that creates sleep lines and creases, and 9 times out of 10, I would wake up with the pattern of any pillow wrinkles on my face. With the silk pillowcase, that doesn’t happen. I’ve also found that I wake up less puffy. When I switched to a silk pillowcase, I also switched to a silk eyemask which I wear most nights so that the morning light doesn’t wake me up. I think that the mix of these two things has helped a lot.
Admittedly in the last month, I changed up my skincare routine, but I saw a difference (that was more lasting than how I looked when I woke up) before that. My skin feels softer and I have less redness. I can’t speak to the wrinkle piece yet, but I do think that after a few months, my skin looks better and maybe even glowier… dare I say it?
Bye bye bedhead. The smooth fabric reduces friction on your hair while you move around in your sleep. That friction can cause damage such as split ends. I’ve noticed that I wake up with way less bedhead in the morning. My frizzy morning flyaways are a thing of the past. My joke with Anel used to be that in the morning I look like Charlize Theron in the movie Monster (specifically this look), but now I wake up looking more like myself and less like a murderer. Winning! But don’t just take my word for it. This article on Man Repeller (with before and after pics) does a better job of showing it than I can.
TLC for my damaged hair. If you color your hair or use heat on it often, you might see a lot of breakage like I do. While I didn’t notice a difference right away, about two months in I think it’s actually helping me with less breakage. Maybe that’s just a placebo effect, but I do think my hair looks happier and healthier and I’ve changed nothing else about my hair routine.
It keeps me cool. I read that silk naturally regulates heat which keeps you cool at night, and I can now tell you first hand that it does. I get really hot at night and often sweat while I sleep (sorry if that’s TMI), but I’ve noticed that the silk has kept me cooler and I’ve been sweating less.
The Best Silk Pillowcases (According to the Internet)
Best overall: According to Good Housekeeping, the Fisher’s Finery silk pillowcase, found on Amazon, is the overall best one. It’s currently on sale for $45 marked down from $60.
Best value: The MYK silk pillowcase won for the best value, priced at $39.
Best ethical: And I wish I had seen this before I bought mine but The Ethical Silk Company makes an ethical silk pillowcase that also got great reviews.
Most hype (and great reviews): The Slip silk pillowcase (which is what I have) is the one that all of my friends and the esthetician recommended to me. And all of the bloggers promoted it too. I got sucked in and bought it, and while I really do like it, I think any of the ones above would be just as good at a lower price point.
Photo by Julia Dags.
