Hot sleepers, rejoice: a little-known company called Dream Valley has released a cooling comforter that uses space-grade filling to help keep hot sleepers cool at night, aptly kicking off its launch on World Sleep Day.
The filling refers to the Outlast material made by Outlast Technologies, a Germany-based company that inherited the development of the insulating fabric after it was conceived and used by NASA for space suits. The material started out as a fabric, but has since then splintered into a variety of forms for a range of applications, such as fillings.
This technology uses a microencapsulated wax that's embedded inside the fabric filling. The wax liquifies at a specific temperature to release heat and condenses back into a solid once it cools below the threshold, hence its phase-changing property. Dream Valley claims this filling material can proactively regulate a comfortable sleeping temperature for hot sleepers throughout the night, maintaining its efficacy even as the body continuously generates heat. On its website, Outlast Technologies says its thermal regulating technology can reduce sweat formation by up to 48%.
While bedding is the most popular use case for Outlast, the thermo-technology can also be applied to shoes, sleepwear, casual and high-performance apparel, and other textile products. It's also the only thermal-regulating fabric to earn the badge of "Certified Space Technology" by the Space Foundation.
Although Dream Valley is a new brand, it is a brand under Shanghai Sunwin Industry Group, a juggernaut textile company in China. With its backing, Dream Valley has its own research and production sites.
The cooling comforter is currently the only product under Dream Valley's brand, but Shadow Wang, chief executive officer of Dream Valley, says the company is looking to expand its product lineup based on Outlast. In the near future, the company will infuse the technology into sleepwear and other thermal-regulating products.
What's on the outside matters, too. For the exterior, Dream Valley uses a "cooling fabric" with a Q-MAX rating of 0.4. Q-MAX measures the degree of cooling sensation on the skin when it touches the fabric. The lower the rating, the cooler the fabric feels against the skin. Additionally, the fabric is stain-resistant and durable.
Having passed the OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certification to be free of harmful substances, the comforter proves itself to be certified safe.
The Dream Valley Cooling Comforter is now available on Amazon and its official website starting at $199. It comes in six color options and four sizes, ranging from Twin to King.
Source: Dream Valley
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