The Pros and Cons of Sobakawa Pillows
Sobakawa pillows are unique in that they are designed and made to keep your head at both the right temperature and with the right support as you sleep. Used for several decades in the East, they are pillows filled with dried buckwheat and are filled in such a way as to shape directly to your head while allowing cooler air to circulate around you.
These pillows are often touted to provide relief from head and neck pain during sleep so long as they are used properly. Makers of Sobakawa pillows recommend that you lay on your back and let your head nestle into the pillow directly, letting the pillow form itself into the exact shape of your head. However, should you lay on your side, the contour-formed support of the pillow is said to keep your head even with your spine. And be advised that there is very little acknowledged medical opinion that supports these claims entirely.
Most often, Sobakawa buckwheat pillows are not generally very expensive. They can be usually be purchased for less than twenty dollars depending upon where you shop. They are advertised frequently on television and have received mostly positive reviews from users, many of whom say the natural contouring properties in the buckwheat hulls that fill the pillow keep the pillow in more consistent shape than traditional down or foam pillows which often contort or distort during even a single night’s sleep.
Sobakawa pillows are not without their critics, however. Some point to the imported pillows requiring chemical fumigation on entry into the United States. Others say there is simply not enough volume of buckwheat hulls raised in the U.S. to accommodate all the pillows claimed to have been sold by the television marketers promoting them heavily. Still others have complained that many Sobakawas have been overstuffed and thus deny your neck the chance to rest in proper position.
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