Tastier and healthier sleep begins with a good pillow.

A good night's sleep begins with a natural, comfortable and healthy sleep posture.
There is nothing finer keeping fit and full of energy to start a new day.

Our buckwheat pillow has the following advantages:

• customizable — regardless of attitude, a whole night long stable,
• breathable and hygienic: buckwheat itself ' breathes ' and air can circulate between the caps, pleasantly dry and cool:
• is absorbed perspiration evaporates the weather, daytime, and of course: cover of clean
• 100% cotton, 100% natural buckwheat shells, carefully cleaned •: only pure buckwheat as stuffing, nothing more,
• washable.

In short: the pillow of your dreams.

What is buckwheat?
It is an annual plant, with a hollow vertical branching on several occasions, red stem. The leaves are triangular to heart-shaped. The root system includes a strong branching taproot.
Flowering begins in a young stage, sometimes though after six weeks, 25 to 30 days and then goes through. The flowers are grouped in long-stemmed, white to pink plumes of color, and contain many nectar. On poor grounds reached a height of 50 cm. buckwheat Before flowering is over, there are already ripe fruits.
The edible seed is ripe to thin stalks that condition easy letting go in. It has a flour and protein rich content, corresponding to that of clover. There were formerly two breeds known: on the moorland and the Brown on the sandy soils Staphorster black grey de Brabantse buckwheat. The current breeds produce less nectar than the old varieties. In preserving the seed must be dry because it easily schimmelt. One kilogram of seed contains ± 45,000 seeds.
The shape of the buckwheat seed is very similar to that of beech nuts, though they are significantly smaller, about 6 mm long seed was ground into flour, although certainly not a grain is buckwheat. Buckwheat is a ' pseudo ': the seeds of cereals, flour and all other derivative products of buckwheat contain no gluten.
Buckwheat flour contains lots of magnesium, potassium and phosphorus. It is nutritious and easily digestible. Nowadays it is also grown for medicine.
Buckwheat is a cereal product, but seems not so. The flour can be mixed well with that of cereals, for example as a basis for pancakes. Roasted buckwheat grains are also called "kasha" and are known from the Eastern European cuisine.
(Source: WikipediA)

Getting used:
The first few nights a soft crackling sound of the fresh buckwheat shells, when you turns around. A totally new, sound sleep posture. That went fast. Please be patient and you never want to more different.
Enjoy the plus points: less stress around cervical vertebrae and shoulders, ensures a good night's sleep and an optimal recovery of efforts, a delicious feeling cool and dry, thanks to the breathable buckwheat, you lose your head and your neck during sleep quite a lot of moisture, this is neatly absorbed and very quickly the next day back to the environment issued.

Practical:
All our cushions are easy to refill or what army to make, so you can adjust the thickness of the pillow to your personal preference.
Another advantage: thanks to the zipper in the sleeve you can also wash, see faq: washpoints buckwheat-, speltchaff and milletpillow.