How to make pillow core

If you want to make the pillow core yourself at home, it still depends on your personal financial conditions and the effect you want to achieve. However, the most important thing is that the texture of the filling cannot be too hard, it must have a certain degree of softness and high plasticity. The most common one is duck down, so today we will learn about how to make the pillow core.

The shape of the pillow is generally in the shape of a Yuanbao, which is low in the middle and high at both ends. The advantage of the Yuanbao shape is that the depression in the middle can be used to maintain the normal physiological curvature of the cervical spine. At the same time, it can play a relative braking and fixing role on the head and neck, so as to reduce abnormal activities of the head and neck during sleep. For those who are not used to the ingot-shaped pillow, a flat pillow can also be used. However, it is not advisable to use a hill-shaped pillow that is high in the middle and low at both ends, because the head and neck move to both ends and cannot maintain the normal position of the head and neck during sleep. The length of the pillow should generally be 10 to 16 cm longer than your shoulder width, and the height should be equal to or slightly lower than the height of your fist when your head and neck are pressed down.

The pillow core of a homemade pillow should be filled with appropriate materials based on local product conditions and personal economic conditions. The principle is that it should be soft and not hard, have good breathability, and have good plasticity. Common pillow fillings include duck down, chicken feathers, buckwheat husks, cattail fluff, cotton, mung bean shells, etc. In summer, you can add an appropriate amount of tea leaves, mint leaves and other fragrant substances, which have the effect of cooling down and relieving heat, and are conducive to sleep. Although sponges and plastic air pillows are soft in texture, they have poor air permeability and are not suitable for use. In addition, pillows made of bamboo, rattan, etc. also have certain advantages.

The pillow core must first be soft, so our choice must be something soft. There are many soft things, and what we have to choose is artificial cotton. We choose artificial cotton not only because it is soft, but also because its cost is relatively low. Find a pile of artificial cotton, in any shape, and then find a piece of floral cloth, sew it into a pocket shape, and then spread the artificial cotton flat in the pocket until it is stuffed full, then seal the pocket, and finally stuff it into the pillowcase.

The pillow core needs filling materials to keep the pillow at a certain height when in use. Currently, there are various filling materials on the pillow core market, including Chinese medicinal materials such as cassia seed, wild chrysanthemum, and silkworm sand; grains such as buckwheat husks, rice bran, and cotton; rush, cattail fluff, and waste tea leaves as filling materials. In addition, materials made using modern technology such as porous vacuum cotton and slow-rebound sponge are all filling materials with a high penetration rate in the market. Chinese medicinal materials have been considered the best pillow filling materials since ancient times. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Chinese medicinal materials as pillow filling materials can slowly exert their medicinal power during people's long sleep, and exert their different functions, which can play a role in physical health and even treat diseases. In particular, negative Chinese medicinal materials such as cassia seed and silkworm sand are most in line with the Chinese medicine theory of "cool head and hot feet", so they are also the most popular pillow materials throughout the ages. The reason why grains and other plant materials have always been considered traditional filling materials is mainly because they contain a fairly rich amount of amino acids, which can be partially absorbed by the human body through skin friction and breathing during sleep. The pillow core materials made with modern technology mainly focus on the comfort of the pillow.

Through this article we have learned how to make pillow cores. Because the pillow must maintain a certain height when in use, it definitely needs to be filled with something, and now the filling items are quite diverse, including Chinese herbs, grains, and even flowers and plants.