The Key to Getting Beauty Sleep - A Chillow!

When you live in Florida the nights can get more than a little warm and stuffy.  All Floridians run the ceiling fan all night long if they know what’s good for them.  But sometimes that is just not enough.  I often wake up with my nose stuffed and my feet hot, as if I am wearing wool socks to bed.  But now I have found The Chillow (sounds cheesy but I assure you they are not paying me to write this).

You know when you wake up in the night feeling warm and clammy and you flip your pillow so you can put your face up against the cool side?  Well, using the Chillow makes your pillow cool all night long - no need for flipping!  It’s a vinyl pillow that you fill with a few cups a water.  The physics of the water, a padded core and lack of air inside the vinyl pillow make it cool all of the time.  Just slide their pillow under your pillow case. It’s not cold like ice, more like the temperature of a cool ceramic tile up against your face.  It really is the most soothing night’s rest.

Not to sound like Goldilocks, but my opinion is that the Chillow is a little too hard to use alone as a pillow, although you could, so I actually slide it under my pillow at night.  While I sleep, one arm under the pillow, my body is slightly cooled by my Chillow. My other fave use is sliding it to the end of my bed to rest my feet on. Once my feet are cooled my whole body feels more comfortable.

How soothing it would be for a woman going through menopause kept up at night by changing body temperatures, or when you go to sleep with a mild headache?  Coolest thing the makers of the Chillow have come up with is a Canine Cooler for dogs that like to lounge on the cool kitchen tile.  They have an oversize mat, that works just like the pillow and cools your pet.

At $39.95 it is a pretty inexpensive way to get a night’s beauty sleep — literally.

Correction 12/19/08: I mentioned in my post the the Chillow was made of vinyl.  Technically this is not true, I was just trying to give you an idea of what the surface felt like.  For those of you with sensitive skin, the Chillow made from a latex free medical grade material that is safe to use up against your skin.