A Wink Silk Publication
The Beautiful Return
Notes on the Beautiful Return
A Wink Silk Publication
The Beautiful Return
The way a thing is made is the measure of the people who made it.
A detergent labeled gentle or for delicates isn't automatically safe for silk, because gentle usually describes the wash cycle it's marketed for,...
Researchers who restricted healthy young men to five hours of sleep a night for one week measured a meaningful drop in daytime...
Researchers who extended college basketball players' sleep to 10 hours a night measured real improvements in shooting accuracy and sprint speed, not...
Most of what looks like hair thinning from your pillow is actually breakage, not loss. The distinction matters because one is mechanical...
Silk fibroin contains 18 amino acids, several identical to the ones in human skin keratin and hair keratin. Cotton is cellulose. Polyester...
Most morning frizz is caused overnight: friction lifts the cuticle, moisture escapes, and hair emerges fluffy and unmanageable. Silk eliminates the friction...
Hair extensions typically last two to three times longer on silk than cotton because silk eliminates the friction that degrades attachment points,...
The real downsides of a silk pillowcase are cost, more careful washing, a slippery feel some sleepers dislike at first, and the...
Men arguably benefit from silk pillowcases more than women: roughly 20% more sebum, hotter sleep, more friction per strand on shorter hair,...
The best silk pillowcase for curly hair is 25-momme, Grade 6A 100% Mulberry silk in a charmeuse weave, because curly hair loses...
Sleeping on wet hair is riskier on cotton than most people realize. Wet strands are more fragile, and cotton accelerates both mechanical...
Silk pillowcases reduce compression wrinkles, the sleep lines from pressing your face against bedding, by creating significantly less friction than cotton. Over...