Cotton Duvet Covers

Cotton duvet covers are the most heavenly during a winter's night. They keep you a warm and allow you to forget all the snow-covered drive ways and frozen water pipes. Duvets are like icing on a cake. They are the perfect covering to a comfortable mattress and bed. Duvets are actually variants of comforters, but have the specified name due to the fact that they are filled with down, instead of other materials. The word “duvet" does in fact mean down in French, hence the name duvets. However, today's duvet manufacturers do not limit the filling of duvets to down or feathers. They use other materials such as cotton to fill up the duvets for many reasons.

A common reason for the popularity of cotton duvet covers is to reduce the animal cruelty. Since down is mostly taken off birds, especially ducks, the birds are often killed in masses for poultry and their down is used for mainly bedding products. Cotton duvet covers do not require the mass killing of the birds since the cotton plant can be cultivated and then cotton extracted without harming a living thing. Additionally, cotton duvet covers are as equally soft as duvets filled with down.

Cotton duvet covers are filled with treated cotton so that the duvets are non-allergenic. This ensures people with sensitive skin peaceful sleep, without having to worry about allergic reactions to the cotton duvet covers. cotton duvet covers could either be completely cotton, which means they will have a cotton filling covered by pure cotton cloth, or they could have cotton fillings with a covering of a different material. One such material is silk. Cotton duvet covers with silk covers are much more comfortable and they give a richer appearance to a bed. For this reason, they are used mainly in high class hotels.

An important feature of cotton duvet covers is that they are light. When a duvet is heavy, it can weigh you down at night, making you feel extremely uncomfortable. It is also possible that a heavy duvet can decrease the radiation of heat, therefore causing you to sweat. Hence it is essential that the duvets are made out of light pure cotton. Improperly processed cotton can also contribute to heavy duvets as they clump together and become heavy.