The Pillow Company Buckwheat
Our U-neck pillow is made by the original company that first introduced buckwheat-filled pillows in the United States. It's filled with natural buckwheat hulls, which combined with its ingenious U-shape, conform to the exact contours of your head and neck.
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The Pillow of Choice For Incredible Comfort
Do you wish you could say, “I just love my pillow!? If you can’t, you need to take a serious look at a pillow that is so comfortable your head will feel like it is being cradled! Buckwheat hull-filled pillows conform to the contours of your head and neck and they give stable support that does not go flat or push-back. That’s why so many users of buckwheat pillows say, “I just love my buckwheat pillow!”. For more information on the many benefits of these amazing pillows, go to About Buckwheat Pillows.
“User-friendly” describes our featured Bed Pillow. Here’s why:
- You can adjust the fullness and elevation of your pillow to match your own personal comfort level. Just use the zippered opening at one end of the 100% cotton ticking cover to add or subtract hulls.
- Your pillow cover is washable. Just remove the hulls. Wash the cover. Dry it, and then refill.
- Your pillow comes with a perfectly sized 100% cotton pillow case.
- Take your pillow along for overnighters. Its unique size, 14″x21″, allows it to fit nicely into luggage, large and small.
- Your pillow should last for many years, 8-10 or more.
“I just love my buckwheat pillow! I’ll never go back to the others!”
– Satisfied Users
After purchasing a small buckwheat pillow and falling in love with it, I set out to make my own standard sized (20×26″) buckwheat pillow. This pillow ultimately became the first Hullo buckwheat pillow prototype. I quickly found high-quality fabrics and tons of different tough-looking zippers, but locating bulk buckwheat hulls proved to be very time consuming.
Buckwheat hulls are available in many different varieties and qualities. My goal was simple: find the best ones for use in a pillow.
Firstly, I narrowed the search considerably by considering only USA produced buckwheat hulls. Our company, Hulltex, is American, based in Duluth Minnesota. It’s very important to us that we support locally owned farms and companies, particularly during these challenging economic times.
Imported Bulk Buckwheat Hulls
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and and several other eastern european countries are big exporters of buckwheat. There are certainly good prices to be found, but they are typically not produced using the same high standards practiced in the USA.
Manufacturers of buckwheat pillows that utilize imported buckwheat hulls will often market their hulls as having been “roasted.” This term refers to a process required by the US government to remove any potential contaminants the product might contain prior to being distributed to American markets; it prevents the spread of plant pests and diseases. The hulls are subjected to high heat. This process unfortunately eliminates some moisture content, making the hulls a bit more brittle, dusty and prone to flattening out.
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Bulk Buckwheat Hulls – Sample #1
These certified organic buckwheat hulls have been crushed flat, making them less effective for use in a pillow.
I ordered our first sample buckwheat hulls thinking that they’d be perfect. They were certified organic and very cheap! When they arrived in the mail my high hopes were dashed. The hulls were all crushed flat and broken into many small pieces. So what’s wrong with that? A few things:
- Using this type of hull will result in a pillow that doesn’t hold its shape as well as it could. The flattened hulls have lost much of their rough edges; they do not grip one another as well as intact ones do.
- There’s much less space between the buckwheat hulls when they’ve been crushed flat. The benefit of air circulation (and a cool pillow) is greatly diminished.
- When crushed, buckwheat hulls, especially if they’re very dry, will break into very small pieces creating dust. Even with air-cleaning, significant amounts of dust can remain with the larger pieces of buckwheat hulls. These small pieces can work their way through a thin pillowcase and make a mess.
- Buckwheat hull pillows are not light. Flattened hulls are considerably more dense than intact ones and will weigh down your already hefty pillow.
Crushed, Flattened Buckwheat Hulls
Some marketers of buckwheat pillows try to use this characteristic to their advantage claiming that they’ve been “pre-flattened” or “polished.” It’s our belief that intact hulls are far superior, but there are two distinct, albeit small, advantages to crushed buckwheat hulls:
- They will make less noise when the pillow is moved.
- They will retain their volume, maintaining the pillow’s desired loft, or height, longer because they’ve already degraded to flat pieces.
Bulk Buckwheat Hulls – Sample #2
Buckwheat sample #2 consisted of comparatively tiny hulls.
My second sample of buckwheat hulls wasn’t much more successful than the first. Another certified organic variety with a very high price tag arrived at my door step. I tore into the package and was disappointed to see the tiny little hulls contained. While completely intact, they were shriveled-appearing compared to some of the larger varieties typically used in buckwheat pillows. Download xforce keygen autodesk 2017 64 bit. Being so small, these were much more dense; they were heavier and restricted air flow much like the crushed buckwheat hulls in my first sample.
Strike two…
Finding the Best Bulk Buckwheat Hulls
I got a several other samples with similar issues-they were less than ideal for one reason or another. Finally a sample came that was perfect… well almost. The buckwheat hulls were: Honestech tvr windows 10.
- completely intact,
- large enough to allow good air circulation and
- dust free.
The Pillow Company Buckwheat
Do Organic Buckwheat Hulls Matter?
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The one catch was that they weren’t certified organic. Does that matter? After pouring through available data, I determined that it was of little importance that the buckwheat hulls be certified. Buckwheat grows very well without requiring noxious fertilizers or pesticides that are commonly used for other crops. Thus, it is most often very close to the definition of organic without actually being certified organic.
In the end, it wasn’t a difficult decision. I decided that it was better to use buckwheat hulls with superior physical characteristics rather than rely on the insignificant label applied to potentially inferior pillow fill… even if they costed more!
The Pillow Company Buckwheat Pillow
In summary, without seeing the buckwheat hulls up close in person, it’s very difficult to know what you’re getting. We’ve done that for you. If you’re in the market for buckwheat hulls for use in a pillow, look no farther. We’ve selected the best we could find and use them in every Hullo™ we ship. We guarantee you’ll agree. If you’re unhappy for whatever reason, just ship them back to us and we’ll refund you the purchase price.