Shredded Latex Pillow – completely customizable
The Shredded Latex Pillow arrives generously overfilled with our signature Botanicore™ shredded latex. Pillow features a 100% cotton zippered cover for easy access to inside filling. Adjust your pillow just the way you like it. Leave it overfilled, slightly plump, hardly full, or anything in between!
Our patented Botanicore™ shredded latex comes from 100% natural tree rubber and sourced from a low-impact, sustainable process right here in Seattle. We shred excess material, the byproduct of cutting latex for our mattresses and toppers, for use in pillows and pet beds. We divert this wonderful fill material from the waste stream and turn it into something great.
Features
- Fill: 100% Shredded Botanical Latex
- Cover: 100% Cotton -Removable and machine washable
About 45th Street Bedding
Born in the Pacific Northwest, 45th Street Bedding launched to meet a need for high-quality, durable, gimmick-free mattresses and bedding with exceptional value. Everybody deserves to sleep comfortably on products that promote deep rest without compromising their health. No matter what their budget is.
Ignore the stories of ‘magical mattress materials.’ That’s just flashy marketing speak. 45th Street Bedding utilizes sustainable and responsibly-sourced natural and organic materials, to assemble our mattresses and bedding collections right here in Seattle. The result, products you can trust are better for your health (and the planet!) than synthetic alternatives.
MARGARET R HAAT –
After the latex smell fades (a couple of weeks) I really enjoy the relief I get from sleeping on it. I have some neck issues.
ken d –
I don’t have a latex allergy, but his pillow took a solid year to air out and lose the overwhelmingly terrible ‘rubber balloon smell’ that made it completely unusable for me. I also had to take half of the stuffing out to have a size that worked for my sleeping patterns, but when I did so there was enough latex to make 2 pillows out of the one. This pillow may or may not work for you, depending on your tolerance for sleeping with balloons, and your patience.
Jeff –
While purchasing my mattress at Bedrooms & More, I really loved the pillow they had in the showroom so I bought these pillows at the same time. I was surprised by the size and weight of the pillows I received but I originally thought they would settle and compress. That never happened and only after going back to the store did I learn that I could open them up and remove some of the shredded latex. I wish I had asked the weight of the pillow that I tried in the store so I could have an equivalent at home. I ended up taking enough shredded latex out of the two pillows to fill an IKEA pillow cover with the extra shredded latex to make a full additional pillow. Ending up with three pillows for the price of two is a nice bonus!
The pillows have held up really well, they definitely do not wear out and go flat like so many other types of pillows. Because they were so overstuffed, I only ever ended up using them to hold, somewhat like a body pillow, instead of ever laying my head on them, but I really like them (as does my cat, who will often sleep half on one of the pillows and half on me).
One other thing to note is I did not realize that queen-sized pillows are larger than “regular-size” pillows (I had assumed there were just “regular” size and “king” size pillows). The larger size meant my regular pillow cases do not always cover the whole pillow. I’ve never found queen size pillow cases anywhere except specialty stores. Department and discount stores pretty much just sell standard- and king-sized pillow cases, even in queen-size sheet sets.
I’m only knocking off one star because removing so much shredded latex was really kind of a pain and it ended up all over the place. When you open up one of these pillows to remove some of the stuffing, make sure to do it in a garage or outdoors and be ready with a bag or an empty pillow cover to fill up. Comfort-wise, once you get the filling adjusted to your preference, you will definitely enjoy this pillow for many years.