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Stop Sleep Lines that Cause Wrinkles.
The new DermaSaver® CushionAire™ Pillowcase protects
your face from damaging friction and pressure.
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of DermaSaver CushionAire Pillowcase fabric.
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Pressure and friction from a standard woven pillowcase grinds away your skin and chokes off blood supply. A soft pillow helps but does not solve the root cause: the skin contact surface. The American Academy of Dermatology advises sleeping on your back to avoid "sleep lines" that, over time, cause permanent wrinkles. But, most people can't sleep on their back so now there is a solution for everyone.The DermaSaver CushionAire Pillowcase provides a cushy knit contact surface with "give" to reduce frictional abrasion and pressure at the point of contact with the facial skin and hair. It does not form damaging crease folds like standard woven pillow cases. It reduces "bedhead hair" and "sheet face". The DermaSaver CushionAire Pillowcase is made of the same revolutionary three-dimensional MicroSpring Textile™ that has been successfully reducing friction and pressure in hospitals and nursing homes for over 5 years. It feels like foam, but is really an all washable fabric. Its silky smooth hydrophobic polyester/spandex fibers do not rob skin and hair of moisture and allows them to breathe. We've all been sleeping on the wrong pillow case. Its time to "wake up" and experience the DermaSaver CushionAire Pillowcase difference! |
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Your head weighs about 10 lbs. The weight on this polyfill pillow causes the regular woven pillowcase to crease and fold but the DermaSaver CushionAire Pillowcase does not allow any creasing or folding with the same weight on the same pillow.
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| Regular woven pillowcase on a polyfill pillow |
DermaSaver CushionAire pillowcase on the same polyfill pillow |
Even on a high quality memory foam pillow, regular woven pillowcases cause folds and creases. The DermaSaver CushionAire Pillowcase on the same high quality memory foam pillow reduces pressure and friction and provides extra support.
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| Regular woven pillowcase on high quality memory foam pillow |
DermaSaver CushionAire pillowcase on the same high quality memory foam pillow |
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THE DERMASAVER® STORY
DermaSaver products were developed in 2006 by company founder and former engineer Ed Goodwin. The first constructions were designed to reduce pressure, shear, and friction in immobile nursing home and hospital patients. The brand grew rapidly because nurses and doctors quickly saw the excellent results produced in their patients from this revolutionary new product line (the results from institutions can be seen at www.dermasaver.com).
The DermaSaver material is a unique three dimensional knit fabric designed with the same physical properties of human shin and soft tissue. It consists of two fabric layers connected by microfilliments.
These microfilliments act as little microsprings that constantly flex and relax as a body part puts alternating pressure during small movements. The pressure to cause these microfilliments to flex equals the same pressure to compress skin, so it is push-back neutral. In addition to being like an extra layer of skin the DermaSaver surface yarns are knit silky smooth to reduce friction.
This illustration shows the internal microfilliments that flex and relax as the body moves. Although the DermaSaver material feels like foam, it is a breathable and washable all fabric construction.
The Rex Durometer is an industry standard gauge for measuring the softness of foams. The indenting pin is connected to the recording dial mechanism which displays the reading. Materials with a similar Durometer reading will not produce a pressure differential at their contact surface.
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Durometer reading from skin (30)
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Rex Durometer
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Durometer reading from DermaSaver (30) matches skin
Here it is shown that both the DermaSaver material and human skin measure a reading of 30, indicating that the DermaSaver material is mechanically similar to skin and soft tissue. It is therefore capable of reducing skin pressure because it does not push back with a greater force |
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DermaSaver Institutional Pillowcase Case study
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A 24 year old male with muscular dystrophy presented to the clinic on April 01, 2008 with a pressure wound on his left ear. The caregiver reports patient is laid on the left side due to contractures and respiratory difficulty while on his right side. The wound measurement on the left ear was 1.5cm x 0.9cm x 0.1cm. The following wound care orders were given, to cleanse ear daily with normal saline and apply thin layer of zinc oxide and to use DermaSaver Pressure Reduction Pillow Case while in bed. The patient returned on April 14, 2008 with no measurable wound and intact skin on his left ear. The skin on his left ear was pink with no drainage or reddened areas present. The care giver states he had used the DermaSaver Pressure Reduction Pillow Case for ten days and saw improvement almost immediately.
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HOW THE DERMASAVER PILLOWCASE WAS WAS DEVELOPED
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In the winter of 2011, product developer Ed Goodwin started to get sleep friction red areas over his cheek bones. At first he tried ointments on these raw red areas with little benefit. Sleeping on his back was not an option because he could not maintain that position throughout the night. Even though he slept on a soft memory foam pillow these red areas persisted for weeks. He then slept on one of his institutional pressure reduction pillowcases. The red areas totally disappered after 2 days. Being in charge of product development he wondered if less layers could provide the same benefit. Several tries were made with less layers and finally it was found that one layer provided the same preventative benefit. Over the course of several months the red areas never returned except on two occasions. On two separate one night hotel stays, a month apart, the red areas returned each time. The woven cotton pillow case was the likely culprit! He then began looking into the difference between the woven cotton pillowcase and the DermaSaver pillowcase. Below is the difference he found: |
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The standard woven cotton pillowcase properties:
The DermaSaver Pillowcase:
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The DermaSaver Pillowcase Redirects Traditional Focus on Solutions to "Bed Head Hair” and “Sheetface” from the pillow to the pillowcase.
All traditional pillowcases are made of flat frabic. Up to now no one has developed a three dimensional fabric suitable for use as a pillowcase surface. DermaSaver worked with textile engineers to produce such a surface and the DermaSaver CushionAire Pillowcase was born!
Your head weighs about ten pounds and can put as much as 3 pounds per square inch on the prominences of the head (jaw, cheek bones, forehead, nose, and ears). That's enough to choke off blood capillary flow and starve collagen and soft tissue of oxygen and nutrients. Lack of blood flow can also trap waste toxins in localized areas of the soft tissue. This along with constant pressure crushing the skin and underlying soft tissue can cause damage to tissue structure. The constant friction of a woven cotton pillowcase grinds away at the skin surface and the cotton fibers suck moisture from the skin and hair. Certainly there are other factors that destroy skin sun overexposure, smoking, stress, gravity and bad nutrition all play a role. But, did you ever wonder why some people have badly wrinkled faces yet the skin on other body parts, such as the arms, remains smooth? Certainly sleeping facial pressure and friction may play a key role in this phenomenon!
Another benefit of the DermaSaver CushionAire pillowcase is the reduction of "bedhead hair". Prior to using the DermaSaver pillowcase, Ed Goodwin, the inventor of DermaSaver, woke up with a bedhair "permanent" each morning. No amount of combing or brushing could undo the messy hair that developed from a nights sleep. Only a shampoo and new styling could make a presentable hairdo. Another surprising benefit of the DermaSaver pillowcase was the reduction of bedhair. Ed's hair still looks messy upon arising, but a quick brushing brings it back to a presentable styling!
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PRODUCT SPECS
The fiber content is 90% polyester microspring textile top surfacewith a knit polyester bottom surface. With a 10% stretch spandexhroughout (there is no latex or foam).
Standard Size 20x26 $49.99 + SH
Queen Size 20x30 $54.99 + SH
King Size 20x36 $59.99 + SH
Custom sizes and shapes are available.
Machine wash and dry. Remove promply from dryer and lay flat. Launder prior to first use.
Lower temperatures will result in longer life.
Turn pillowcase inside-out prior to laundering to preserve smooth surface fibers. Do not iron.
Color: Beige.
Made in the USA.
Email us at cs@dermasaver.com or call DermaSaver toll free at 1-800-358-4477 for answers to your questions or to discuss any issues.
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