These Silk Pillowcases Will Take Your Skincare Game To The Next Level

Best silk pillowcases for hair and skin
Getty/Emmanuel Faure

As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. POPSUGAR has affiliate and advertising partnerships so we get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase.

Everybody knows the power of a good night’s sleep. Consistent poor sleep has a negative impact on collagen production, increases cortisol (a stress hormone that can trigger acne) and lowers PH levels, which can increase skin dryness and sensitivity.

There are lots of ways to improve your sleep and your skin, and turns out one of them is investing in a silk pillowcase. 

Silk pillowcases can help with your actual sleep because silk fibres are temperature-regulating. According to the Sleep Foundation, we sleep best at 18.3 degrees celsius — but most of us sleep in bedrooms or under blankets that keep us far warmer. Simply, with a silk pillowcase you’re always sleeping on the cool side of the pillow.

More to the point, swapping cotton for silk directly benefits skin and hair. Silk provides a frictionless surface, that makes for less incidental exfoliation of the skin or cuticle roughage of your hair while you toss and turn. 

They help your complexion retain moisture, as they are less absorbent than cotton pillowcases, which also means they don’t hold on to bacteria and oils in the same way a cotton pillowcase will. Some pillowcases, as you will see, have additional skin-beneficial ingredients. 

We’ve rounded up the best silk pillowcases for a nighttime beauty boost.

Related Posts
Latest Beauty
The End.

The next story, coming up!