Some years ago, I read here about wool duvets for people who need warmth but get overheated in bed. I also read here about CH for the first time - where comments were pretty negative and compared it with the sweaty Brentford Nylons from years past.
As someone who lives in fleece during the day, I thought what the hell and gave CH a go. I am eternally grateful to the original poster who got CH on my radar as I will never go back. Although I am now of "personal summer" age, I've suffered with the most awful night sweats for the last 15 years. Sleeping in cotton - even the supper-soft, high thread count (and stupidly expensive in this country) pima cotton - was causing me problems. Tossing and turning on soaked cotton makes it ruck up and go rock hard. Add getting back into it when it's gone cold after heading for the loo in the middle of the night and bed was getting to be a really miserable experience for me.
Along comes my first set of CH - heaven! Even if it did ruck up (rare, oddly enough), by the time I got back from the loo the sweat had evaporated so I was getting back into a warm, soft bed. Seriously heaven. I've never looked back and am now a walking ad for CH bedding (though I have found some sets to be softer and wash better than others - the plain scroll ones that were a TSV a good while back are the hardest/roughest of all the CH sets I've tried and the original set the bobbliest).
So, back to my first line. Wool duvets. Although I love the feel of my fluffy, light 15 tog goose down duvet (another purchase in the desperate attempt to get a decent nights' sleep), I bit the bullet and got a 3-6 tog duvet from the Wool Room (they had a seriously good deal pre-Christmas). I thought this weight would come in handy for spring and autumn as I just use a CH duvet cover in the summer and the down in winter. Well, I couldn't wait to try it so used it the night I had it, and, like CH bedding, I have never looked back.
This combo is amazing. For the first time in at least 15 years I have slept well (loo and pain med breaks excepted). NO sweats!!! But WARM - not hot, just a warmth I can only describe as the total opposite of bone cold. I'm warm to the core without being hot. And quite excited about it! I had to keep throws close to the bed as I'd still get cold (and once cold, there's no warming me up, yet I'd still sweat. Ugh!), even with 15 tog of down on me. Since I put wool on the bed I've not needed a throw at all.
CH bedding made a huge difference to my sleep quality and now I hate sleeping away from home in anything else (a rare occurrence anyway, but if I had my way if I had to sleep away, I'd take my CH with me!). Adding a wool duvet to the mix has made my bed a place I love to be and sleep happens (any serious insomniac will know what I mean by that).
Who'd have thought that man-made and natural could mix so well? Anyone thinking of dipping their toe into CH? Just do it. If you hate it, you'll have lost your postage. But if you do decide to try it and are still not convinced, wash it. It loosens it up a bit and makes it softer. Plus the washing/drying/not ironing process will definitely add to the feel-the-love thing going on with CH :heart:
