Weighted blankets are known to relieve anxiety and improve sleep quality, but for anyone who runs hot at night (or is anticipating a steamy summer indoors), lying under 10% of your body weight may sound more stifling than soothing. That’s what makes cooling weighted blankets, which claim to reduce stress and body temperature, so appealing.
Juliet Starrett, co-founder of online fitness platform The Ready State, “but even as a colder sleeper, it would feel like 1,000 degrees. I’d be sweating and would have to take it off immediately.” She said.
Many different kinds of cooling weighted blanket are sold. Let me introduce to you the major ones in the market and its features.
Cooling fabric
The weighted blanket made with bamboo fabric. This is the most popular that applied by many weighted blanket brands. Bamboo fabric is one of the natural materials with cooling touching. It is used for the weighted blanket itself and used for the duvet cover as well. And also, for multiple usage purposes, the weighted blanket made one side bamboo fabric for summer and another side Minky fabric for winter.
Coolmax fabric, which firstly used in sports-wear, it’s the character of hygroscopic and sweats releasing that applies the cooling effect.
When this fabric is applied on a weighted blanket, people have a somatosensory temperature of 2-3 degrees.
Same as the usage of bamboo fabric, it can use for a weighted blanket and the duvet cover as well.
Nantong Rhino homeware co.,ltd has the above 2 types of cooling weighted blanket.
Outlast textiles
Outlast technology enhances textiles by providing the benefit of proactive temperature regulation that manages heat and moisture in many textiles. As a company committed to temperature regulation, Outlast can give you the technology to provide more comfortable solutions to everyday life. When you manage temperature, heat, and moisture your customers can feel "just right". This is the leading technology in American only. The weighted blanket brand “Hammacher Schlemmer” is using this material.
Cooling structure
What you see more weighted blankets in the market are made of kinds of fabrics. When under the thick fabric blanket, easily get sweat. After the revolution of the fabric structure, the knit weighted blanket made by a heavy rope. The heavy rope gives the weight, and the knit structure gives the hole. the wide holes between yarn strands are soothing and anxiety-quelling to poke and curl your fingers through while dozing off.
Functional instruments
Whatever the cooling fabric, the cooling structure, there’s no way that you’ll stay cool and comfortable all night long.
A special device is adopted for a weighted blanket. It’s a water pump with a temperature control unit. The constant temperature of the water will go through the entire weighted blanket by the tube sewed inside the weighted blanket. and flow circulatory.
People can set the favorite temperature by the temperature control unit then enjoy his sleep with the weighted blanket. This blanket is used for the winter season as well.