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Coolmax and Climarelle Bedding

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Coolmax

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Coolmax™ is a high tech fabric specifically and uniquely engineered to keep users dry and comfortable.

Coolmax® fabrics are made from specially engineered polyester fibres from ADVANSA with an increased surface area. This special four-channel or six-channel fibre forms a transport system that pulls moisture away from the skin to the outer layer of the fabric. It then dries that moisture faster than other fabrics to thermoregulate the body by evaporative cooling.
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Originally developed to meet the demanding needs of top class athletes, today Coolmax™ fabrics are used for many kinds of garments such as sportswear, bedding, intimate apparel, workwear, ready-to-wear – in fact, wherever there is a need for fresh, dry comfort combined with easy care advantages.
Coolmax™ is a trademark of Invista.

Climarelle

climarelle logoClimarelle™ is a fabric used in ‘fillings’ for duvets, pillows and mattress pads. The fibres actually adjust to your temperature by expanding when they get too hot (providing a cooling effect) and shrinking again as they cool down (releasing stored heat and improving the insulating qualities). As well as being a good absorber of moisture this makes Climarelle™ ideal for handling Night Sweats especially when used in conjunction with Coolmax™ or other wicking sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers?

Here’s how it works.

Balanced sleeping temperature:
Thermoregulating Climarelle™ microcapsules actively remove warmth when you are too hot and release it when necessary, providing you a balanced sleeping temperature all night long.

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Lightness:
The filling fibre of this product is a combination of very fine and light fibres for maximum comfort with minimum weight.

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Softness:
Soft and comfortable bedding, which gives you the feeling of sleeping wrapped in a cosy nest.

Superior comfort:
The fibres of your duvet or pillow filling have been strictly selected and controlled to provide optimum and long lasting comfort.

Restful sleep:
Climarelle™ contains fine and light fibres and hightech soft stretch liner with integrated Climarelle™ microcapsules. By balancing your body temperature variations, this combination helps to provide an optimised individual sleeping climate and gives you a restful sleep.


New Wicking Nightwear From Cool Sets

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Our existing US supplier of nightwear Wicking J has merged with Cool Sets, another US manufacturer. As a result we are trying out a couple of their lines.

We’d be really interested in any feedback you might have on what you’re looking for in nightwear and whether you like the Cool Sets products. They’ve got a bigger range, so we could get more items if the ones we have prove popular.


Nightwear Suppliers

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Sleepfresh

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Sleepfresh is a small UK business that specialises in using natural wicking fabrics, such as Bamboo and Soy, to create a beautiful range of nightwear which performs in the same way as wicking polyester and is designed to allow you to keep your sense of style and femininity at the same time!

Bamboo fibre fabrics share the properties of their man made fellows, such as wicking polyester, but have the advantage of coming from natural, renewable sources.

The fabric is light and soft, feeling somewhat like a fine cashmere. It washes easily and retains its wicking properties over many, many wash cycles.

Naturally luxurious sleepwear!”

Wicking J

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Wicking J. Sleepwear is a US company based in Colorado, founded by Kendra Novick. They produce a beautiful and functional line of sleepwear, designed by a woman, for the woman who experiences the discomfort of night sweats.

Personal experience of friends and family has inspired their line of fashionable and functional sleepwear.

Keeping you comfortable so you get a good nights sleep is their ultimate goal.

The unique quick drying, patented fabric “wicks” away the wetness from your skin, so you wake up dry, not drenched!

The wicking fabric maintains its wicking properties even after multiple trips to the washing machine.

Function, style and comfort – everything you need in a quality pyjama.

Fight your night sweats in jamas that keep you dry”.

Wicking J. Sleepwear donates a percentage of its proceeds to the Gynecologic Cancer

Foundation. This foundation strives to ensure public awareness of gynecologic cancer

prevention, early diagnosis and proper treatment, as well as supports research and training related to gynecologic cancers

Cool Sets

Cool Sets Home Page

Cool Sets is another US company based in Colorado. It was founded by a group of women with experience in sports clothing.

They had spent years designing clothing to keep athletes cool and dry and then realized that the same approach could be used to help women like them deal with nightsweats.
Thus Cool Sets was born.

They  developed their exclusive CoolBalance® moisture wicking fabric to  help keep you cool and dry when it’s hot and warm and dry when it’s cool — while allowing you to look beautiful in the process.

The fabric is light to the touch, drapes beautifully and gives the luxurious look and feel of high fashion.

Time and again customers say Cool Sets keeps them cooler than cotton or silk pyjamas, and feel great against their skin.

Fresc

Fresc Home Page

Fresc is a Dutch company with a design studio in Spain designing and producing clothing with the highest added value for women in the menopause.

Fresc has developed a unique fabric, Qdry, which uses the technology of sportswear fabrics

and applies it to everyday clothes. The result is a fabric which wicks away moisture, dries

quickly and remains breathable even when damp whilst feeling like a traditional cotton

fabric

In summary

  • Fresc Qdry dries 3 times faster than cotton
  • Fresc Qdry has superior breatheabilty.
  • Fresc Qdry feels comfortable like any 100% cotton shirt.

Fresc’s aim is “…. to make life for women in the menopause more comfortable”