Are there really benefits to using anti wrinkle pillows or is it all just hype?

The beauty business thrives on convincing people that there are a million and one things wrong with them. By controlling what people think and how they feel about themselves, beauty product manufacturers can sell people a million and one different products that promise to fix their million and one flaws. Many of the beauty products peddled to consumers turn out to be all hype and no substance. If you believe some of the reviews from people who have used anti wrinkle pillows, these beauty pillows are no different from any products that promise to help combat the signs of aging. Yet, the internet abounds with articles about anti wrinkle pillows that make them out to be an absolute necessity if you want to safeguard against static wrinkles. So is that all a case of people jumping on a bandwagon and hyping up the idea that anti wrinkle pillows can help you look your best? Or are there really benefits to using an anti wrinkle pillow?

See that sleeping beauty in the picture? See that purple thingy underneath her head? That’s one of the popular brands of anti wrinkle pillows out there which, according to the maker and to some of the people using the pillow (including well known celebrities), will “improve the quality of your rest and help minimize sleep lines that can be etched into your skin from sleeping on your side”, as well as help you “achieve healthier, more rested-looking skin overnight”.

Do you hear that? Anti wrinkle pillows can help you achieve healthier more rested-looking skin overnight!

Read that literally and it’s really not all that outrageous a claim. Basically, all it’s saying is that the difference between sleeping on the Nurse Jamie Beauty Bear™ Age Delay Pillow and your regular old ordinary pillow, is that the nurse Jamie Pillow is designed to help you sleep in a way that will protect your face from looking like the face of a sad old dog when you wake up in the morning. Because the pillow is designed in such a way that your face will not get smashed and scrunched up throughout the night. So in the morning, you will have fewer “static wrinkles” aka sleep wrinkles, and fewer of the other not so pretty signs of wear and tear like giant under eye bags and sagging cheeks and so on.

So these people aren’t really promising that their anti wrinkle pillow is going to get rid of your wrinkles and make you look younger. They are saying that by virtue of waking up with fewer “sleep lines” and a less saggy looking face, you will automatically look healthier and more rested. You will look better than you typically look when you wake up in the morning from sleeping on your non-specialized every day pillow. The pillow isn’t going to change your life by erasing your existing wrinkles. It’s not going to restore your depleting supply of collagen. It’s not going to restore your skin’s elasticity. It’s just going to help you keep away the extra damage that happens every night when you are sleeping with your face smudged and smashed against a pillow that is not designed to protect it.

So do we need anti wrinkle pillows or are there free ways that we can protect our face while we sleep?

There is definitely a free way that you can protect your face while you sleep. You can sleep on your back. Many of the anti wrinkle pillows out there are designed to be used with you sleeping on your back. Because sleeping on your back is said to be the best way to protect your face while you sleep. So if you don’t want to spend money on a so-called beauty pillow, you can try to develop a habit for sleeping on your back. If you already sleep on your back, you are probably already enjoying the benefits of anti wrinkle pillows without being aware of it. You probably usually wake up looking pretty well rested because your face has not been through the wringer being smashed and smudged and pressed against your pillow through the night.

But keep in mind if you are not a back sleeper that it’s not so easy to train yourself to sleep on your back. That is why anti wrinkle pillows come in handy. Because they are designed with this in mind, knowing that people who sleep on their stomach and their sides have difficulty sleeping on their backs.

However, difficult does not mean impossible. So if you prefer not to invest in any of the available sleep wrinkle pillows on the market, you can begin to train yourself to sleep on your back. We stomach and side sleepers here at Best Beauty Pillow are in the process of doing just that.

But how do you train yourself to sleep on your back?

We’ll discuss how to train yourself to sleep on your back after this Featured Product intermission…

Featured Product

JuveRest The Sleep Wrinkle Pillow with Cover

According to the product description on Amazon.com, the JuveRest sleep wrinkle pillow “is a new-and-effective way to deal with facial wrinkles”. The Juverest pillow was apparently designed by a board-certified plastic surgeon. The claims about the pillow is that it “minimizes facial contact with the pillow surface, inhibiting sleep wrinkle formation”.

In a way the description is a little bit misleading because it gives the impression that if you already have facial wrinkles, a Juverest pillow can help you deal with your existing wrinkles. But keep in mind that this is not the case, and the wording is clever because it can make people with wrinkles think that the JuveRest beauty pillow can help them fight their current wrinkles. But by “deal with facial wrinkles”, all they mean is that the JuveRest sleep wrinkle pillow will help you deal with the wrinkles that you wake up with in the morning after a rough night battering your face on your pillow while sleeping on your back or your side.

The way the Juverest pillow works, according to the description, is that it “encourages sleep positions that reduce damage to facial skin”.

The pillow is said to be “soft and comfortable” and it claims to promote “correct neck and back anatomical alignment”.

Like many other of the popular brands of beauty pillows, this one claims a multi-patented design. Pretty is not a word that necessarily comes to mind when you look at the JuveRest pillow, but if the design does help your skin to maintain it’s youthful appearance, would you care if it’s pretty or not?

From the product description on Amazon.com, the pillow is made from “special high quality, soft, open-cell, resilient foam” that provides “comfortable support”. And the “open structure” of the pillow is claimed to allow “efficient air circulation” to keep you cooler at night.

Reviews of the JuveRest sleep wrinkle pillow appear to be mixed, with some people claiming it’s amazing and wonderful, and other people describing it as “horrible” and uncomfortable.

It is claimed on the JuveRest website that tests show 1700% less facial distortion when using the JuveRest pillow.

The test they reference is said to have been an “independent clinical study of 40 participants where half slept on a JuveRest pillow and half slept on a traditional pillow for 4 hours.” It probably isn’t a good idea to rely on the results of such a test.

They also reference another independent study conducted by Precision Opinion, Inc. in March 2014. They claim that 89% of participants in that study “found their skin looked better after using the JuveRest pillow for eight weeks”

Would you pass on the JuveRest pillow because it will mess up the aesthetics of your bed?

Some people are very particular when it comes to their bed. They want their bedroom to look a certain way. They want balance on both sides of the bed. So how do you include a pillow with a non-traditional pillow design in your bedroom decor? Very simple, buy two of the anti wrinkle beauty pillow you decide to use.

Anti wrinkle beauty pillows are not just for women. So if you share your bed with a male, there’s no need to think he can’t use a beauty pillow as well. Of course, many men hang on to ideas and attitudes about certain products that they consider to be women’s products. So it could be challenging to convince your bed mate to go to bed every night resting his head on some of the anti wrinkle pillows that are on the market. The JuveRest pillow looks to be fairly substantial in size and could be easier to convince him to use.

How to train yourself to sleep on your back

Since we haven’t yet conquered our goal to train ourselves to sleep on our backs, we won’t pretend that we have any surefire tips and tricks to share with you. But we will say that, just by virtue of getting some parts of our nightly sleep with our face protected thanks to sleeping on our back for some periods of the time, we are seeing improvements in our appearance when we wake up in the morning. At least one of us has been seeing the ramifications of not getting enough hours of sleep for as many as 10 years in a row, and not sleeping soundly during those few hours of sleep, tossing here and turning there, sleeping on one side for some of the hours, sleeping on the other side for the rest of the hours, always with her face smudged and smashed and pressed into a pillow that hasn’t been changed in way too long on pillow cases that really belong in the garbage (okay okay, that someone is me myself and I).

Someone who goes through what we’ve just described isn’t someone who wakes up looking her best every morning. And with that routine ongoing over a decade, the toll finally became noticeable in the last couple of years. The bags under her my eyes became more pronounced than usual, and the sides of her my face where her my cheek gets smashed during side-sleeping or stomach sleeping with her my face turned to one side or another, began to droop and sag prematurely.

You can find tips for training yourself to sleep on your back all over the internet.  We came across some articles on the website byrdie.com. They are ‘How I Finally Trained Myself to Sleep on My Back‘ and ‘How To Sleep On Your Back‘. Also via the website thesleepjudge.com, these tips are included in their article titled ‘Sleeping on your back and how to effectively do it‘.

1. Lay flat on your back
2. Put a pillow under your knees
3. Put your hands up by your pillow
4. Spread your legs out a little
5. Stay on your back

Any other alternatives to anti wrinkle pillows other than training yourself to sleep on your back?

There are claims that silk pillow cases provide a similar benefit to anti wrinkle pillows. Silk pillowcases are said to have the ability to help improve the health of your skin and to help minimize the appearance of wrinkles. With silk pillow cases you won’t have to worry about having your bed aesthetics upset by having a weirdly shaped pillow on your side and a regular pillow on the other side.

Silk material is said to be good for helping to protect your skin from things that will typically cause you to break out which adhere more easily to cotton and other non-silk material out of which your every day pillow case is made. You will even find claims that silk pillow cases can help to reduce the appearance of facial wrinkles. However, it makes sense to question that claim on the basis of the claims of anti wrinkle pillows. It doesn’t seem highly likely that the material of your pillow case alone can have the impact that sleep wrinkle pillows are claimed to have. If sleep wrinkle pillows require patented designs that keep your face cradled and off your pillow, then how can a silk pillow case by itself be enough to prevent the smashing and smudging and pressing of your face into your pillow that is said to be the cause of sleep wrinkles? So the claim that silk pillow cases can help to minimize facial wrinkles might be a little bit of a stretch. However, sleeping with your face on a silk pillow case instead of on a cotton pillow case will ensure a more gentle experience for your face if nothing else.

Some claims made about silk pillow cases

• A silk pillow case will not suck in the moisturizers and anti aging creams and products that you put on your face at night, so you don’t have to worry that your skin care products will be absorbed into your pillow case instead of staying on your face and doing the job of helping you to combat nature’s will while you sleep.
• A silk pillow case will protect your hair from breaking off or splitting at the ends while you toss and turn in your sleep
• Because silk is hypoallergenic, it will protect you from allergens that can cause your skin to break out and cause you to wake up covered in pimples and other acne bumps.

Shop silk pillow cases at amazon.com

Here is a short list of anti wrinkle pillows that you can consider if you are wanting to buy a pillow that is specially designed to help you fight the signs of aging

• JuveRest® Sleep Wrinkle Pillow – claims to be an easy-to-use, non-invasive wrinkle solution that minimizes facial wrinkles caused by compression from pillow contact during sleep.
• Nurse Jamie Beauty Bear Age Delay Pillow – claims to be the ultimate anti wrinkle pillow for minimizing sleep lines and wrinkles while you sleep.
• Save My Face Anti-Wrinkle Pillow – claims to be the first and only FDA registered face saving pillow
  
• Windsor Home Side Sleeper Contour Pillow (this pillow is also marketed as an anti wrinkle pillow, but claims to help you get a good night’s rest And a good night’s rest will always help you to look less haggard when you wake up in the morning)
• The Back to Beauty Anti-Wrinkle Head Cradle Beauty Pillow – claims to be wrinkle-prevention beauty pillow that’s the total beauty sleep solution for wrinkles and acne
• My Back Sleeper Pillow Anti-Aging, Wrinkle Reducing – claims to be the original back sleeping pillow, and to help prevent sleep lines on the face and cleavage wrinkles on the chest
  
• Key Pillow Anti-Wrinkle Face Pillow – claims that it can help you to wake up looking and feeling healthier and younger and claims that it is designed to prevent sleep wrinkles
  
• Sobakawa Cloud Pillow – another pillow that is not marketed as anti aging but which promises you will wake up refreshed and rested every morning
• Correct Form Pillow Side Sleeper Pillow with Vegetable foam
• Envy Silk Anti Aging And Therapeutic Memory Foam Pillow – claims to be the one pillow that aligns your spine, reduces wrinkles and gives the best sleep of your life
  
• My Face Pillow – claims to be the solution to beautiful skin, providing anti-wrinkle, anti-acne and anti-aging benefits
  
• The sleepgram pillow – claims to be the best pillow for sleep quality, clear skin and eliminating allergies
  
• The Beauty Pillow from thebeautypillow.com – claims to be designed to simply flow with your skin as you sleep
• The Vasseur Beauty Pillow – claims to be a specially designed luxury pillow to prevent sleep wrinkles
  

Since we haven’t yet tried any of the listed anti wrinkle pillows we cannot suggest to you which ones are the best. Many of these pillows are available on amazon.com so you will find a few customer reviews usually. Those might help you make a decision about which of the sleep wrinkle pillows you want to buy. In the meantime, research free ways to fight sleep wrinkles. Your arms themselves might be good enough if you can find a way to position them so that your face is protected from touching anything that might transfer germs, and from being distorted and leave you looking decades older than you are.

Good luck in your efforts to fight sleep wrinkles. Remember to drink a lot of water also, because no cream, serum or other product works better for helping you to achieve your healthy skin youthful glow goals than adequate sleep and water.