How beautifying is your sleep? Being a girly girl, I love my bedtime beauty ritual of applying a highly nourishing face serum to help me on my quest for smooth glowing skin when I wake. However, I often wake with a birds’ nest of tangled hair and the occasional crease mark on my face from the pillow case. Doesn’t sound too much like a beauty sleep, does it! Not surprisingly, my pillow slip is made from cotton but I decided to take this whole silk pillow slip thing seriously last week and discovered the most wonderful snippets of information.

~ Cotton not only draws moisture from your hair but your skin as well, drying it out and nullifying the benefits of night-time serums – your cotton pillow slip is getting the benefits of your nourishing night-time lotions and potions, not you.

~ Silk allows your hair to glide over the pillow, rather than grabbing and twisting it every time you move your head during the night – no more bird’s-nest bed-head.

~ Unlike cotton, the amino acids in silk proteins resemble those found in human skin, creating a virtually perfect pH balance that does not deplete moisture – silk pillowslips improve moisture retention and enhance the absorption of beauty products.

~ In the Orient, natural silk has always been known as “the second skin” and has been a beauty secret since the Ming Dynasty for skin hydration and anti-aging properties.

In a nutshell, silk pillowcases are designed to work naturally with skin and hair to make night-time beauty routines more effective. Hmmm, now I’m starting to think… why stop at the SLIP silk pillow cases – doesn’t your body deserve the same softness as well?

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