Night sweats? Hot sleeper? The secret to staying cool at night.

Reason 01

Stop changing your pajamas at 3 a.m.

For years I had night sweats, waking up around 3 a.m. almost daily.

“The sweat is literally running off me. I'm having to wash, change my pajamas's and the bedding before getting back in… I'm running out of bedding?!!”

Here is what I did not know. Most “cooling” sheets are actually just plastic. Polyester and microfiber do not breathe, and they cannot hold moisture, so sweat just stays on you.

That is where Avori Bamboo is different. It holds about 28 times more water than those plastic sheets do. It pulls the sweat off my skin and lets it dry instead of trapping it against me.

My bed stays cooler, and I sweat less now.

Reason 02

How bamboo sheets actually work.

Bamboo fiber is made of cellulose, and it is covered in tiny spots that grab onto water. This is called moisture regain, and it can be measured. Polyester holds about 0.4% of its own weight. Bamboo holds 11 to 13%, roughly 28 times more.

Once the sweat is absorbed into the sheet, it spreads out across the fabric, which gives it more room to dry.

Polyester on the other hand is a plastic thread that cannot absorb water, which is why sweat beads up and sits against your skin all night.

This is why bamboo lets you cool down naturally through the night, and why it feels smoother than other fibers. It is natural. Not a coating. Not a treatment that washes off.

Reason 03

Bamboo lets your body finish cooling down.

The sweating was bad. Lying awake afterward was worse.

Here is what is really going on. Sweat is not the problem. Sweat is your cooling system. But it only cools you when it dries. The drying is what carries the heat off your body.

On plastic sheets the sweat cannot dry. It has nowhere to go, so it stays wet, stuck between you and a fabric that holds heat in. You get wetter and hotter, and your body sweats more trying again. That is the loop I was in for four years.

On bamboo the sweat gets pulled into the fabric and spread out, where it can actually dry. So the cooling finally happens.

And that matters more than it sounds, because your body has to cool down before it can fall asleep. Sleep researchers found you drop into deep sleep at the moment your temperature is falling fastest. They also found that people who cannot sleep often run warmer at night. Their bodies never finish the drop.

Mine finishes now. I fall back asleep in a few minutes. It used to take an hour.

Reason 04

Cooling that lasts.

I had bought “cooling” sheets before. They felt cool for about a week. Then the sweating came back.

“the ‘cooling’ effect lasts about 3 minutes before they adapt to my body temperature and then they're just as warm as I am.”

That happens because most cooling sheets are sprayed with a chemical coating. The spray washes out. After a few loads of laundry you are sleeping on a plain hot sheet again.

Nothing is sprayed on Avori Bamboo. The fiber does the work, the way I described up in reason 2, so there is nothing sitting on top that can wash off. Night 100 works the same as night one.

Reason 05

They don't turn into sandpaper.

I once spent $300 on a set from a brand everyone recommends. It pilled after four washes. Little hard balls all over it.

“they have pilled so badly that it feels like there's sand in the bed!!”

“it looks as though I sleep in sandpaper pyjamas.”

I asked for a refund. They told me it was my skin and my jewelry.

Those little balls come from short plastic fibers breaking and rolling up. That is microfiber. Avori Bamboo has no microfiber in it at all.

Here is the part that bothered me most. Those broken fibers do not just sit there. When researchers sampled the air inside homes, polyester made up about 81% of the plastic fibers they found floating in it, and indoor levels ran two to five times higher than outdoors. Your face is a few inches from that fabric for eight hours a night.

Bamboo is a plant fiber. It does not shed plastic, because there is no plastic in it.

No sheet lasts forever. But mine have been washed 25 times and they are still smooth.

Reason 06

They stay on the bed.

My mattress is deep. Most fitted sheets popped off a corner in the middle of the night.

“the elastic was too loose, so my sheets came off bed every night.”

I would wake up lying on bare mattress. Then I would be crawling around the bed at 2 a.m. trying to stretch a corner back on, which is a wonderful thing to do when you are already hot and already awake.

The Avori fitted sheet has 18 inch deep pockets and elastic all the way around. Mine has not come off once.

Reason 07

My husband likes them, and he likes nothing.

My husband did not want new sheets. He said we already had sheets.

He runs cold. I sweat through the night. We have been fighting over the thermostat and the blankets for years.

He noticed these on the second night. He said they did not feel clammy. That is the nicest thing he has said about bedding in a decade.

“I must have purchased 10-12 different type sheets over the last couple of years… These are the only sheets he has actually liked!”

Now he asks when they are getting washed so he can have them back.

Reason 08

Getting into bed feels good again.

I did not expect this part.

They are cool the second you get in. Not cold, just cool. They feel like silk without sliding around the way silk does.

“They kind of feel like silk but they're not slippery like silk and they keep you cool so you're not sweating from them.”

For four years my bed was the place where the bad part of the night happened. Now it is the part of the day I look forward to.

That is why I keep telling people about them. Not because they are perfect. Because they are the only ones that let me sleep through the night.