White Lotus Home kapok pillow on my bed
I originally published this on Shop With Debra in 2015, and took it down when I stopped publishing that blog. I’m bringing it back because I still sleep on this pillow and it’s still the best pillow I’ve ever had and someone asked a question about kapok.
After I read that White Lotus Home had kapok pillows, I knew I had to have one. My wool pillows, which I have loved, don’t last as long as I would like, but are much better than cotton fill, which is too hard for me.
So when I learned that kapok is more resilient and lasts longer, I had to try it.
Kapok is the fluff around a seed that grows in a protected pod on the magnetic kapok tree. Fibers are pulled from the seeds pods, then air cleaned by spinning at high speed, resulting in a soft, puffy, resilient material that has no dust or pod debris. Read more about kapok here.
My pillow arrived on Monday and it’s a dream come true.
As I told White Lotus Home President Marlon Pando on Toxic Free Talk Radio , the first night I slept on it, I put my head down and fell right to sleep. And I’ve been sleeping better every night since. Amazing the difference a pillow can make.
Another thing I love about this pillow is that it has an invisible zipper on the side, so I can open the pillow and move the fill around, or add more, or change it. This way I can buy more fill if needed instead of a whole new pillow. And the zipper is “invisible” so you don’t even see or feel it.
I chose this pillow because it’s made from organic cotton and kapok collected from the wild, so it’s as pure as you can get. I know the quality of White Lotus Home. I’ve visited their work space and showroom in Highland Park NJ, so I know the manufacturing environment is clean, toxic free, and fragrance-free through and through.
I’m going to order another one.
AND…I just received an email from White Lotus Home about their buckwheat pillows and their buckwool pillows. Buckwool is half buckwheat, half wool, which offers the best of both fills. “While the Organic Buckwheat will mold to your desired shape, the layers of virgin wool provide a soft cushion between you and the firm buckwheat, and you can flip the pillow to whichever side you may need at the time.”
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Listen to my interview with Marlon Pando, Owner of White Lotus Home |
Hi Debra – how do you feel about PLA in pillows and mattresses? (Naturepedic, which we love) uses it, and when you Google “is PLA toxic”, most of the articles say yes, even though it comes from corn starch and sugar cane. these articles all talked about its use in 3-D printing – but did say it’s from the plant sources that Naturepedic website they use. The Google articles says it does outgas VOC – Naturepedic says no. Can you clarify? Thanks – as always – for all you do!
PLA only outgassed above 398 degrees F during manufacturing. So it would emit during 3D printing but not from a pillow.
So the PLA in a Naturepedic pillow isn’t emitting anything to inhale.
See Q&A: TOxicity of 3D Printing.