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The LaNoodle Pillow Education

I consider myself a country boy with a broad, somewhat worldly perspective. I was born in Maryland. I grew up in North Carolina and Virginia. There are some things country folk are known for, but healthy lifestyles has never been one of them. That being said, I know that there is a certain amount of education that has to occur for someone like me, when it comes to organic products and healthy living. Add to that, I am an overweight, type 2 diabetic, which is a further indication that I do not have a great track record of making healthy choices.

But I’m still fighting to change all that. I’ve cut out fried foods as much as absolutely possible. I’m eating more kale than any ten human beings around me at any given moment these days. Hell, I even got a bike for Christmas … and I’m actually riding it. I’m getting healthier is my point.

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I’m not much of a sleeper, but the LaNoodle pillow is teaching me that a healthy life begins with healthy sleep.

So, coming to work at CozyPure has been a huge step in the right direction and a graduation to another level of educating myself about healthier living. And let me just preface the rest of this by saying that listed on my chart of medical conditions is occasional bouts of insomnia. These bouts have been so frequent that I’ve sort of written off the notion of getting a lot of healthy sleep in my life. But as I’ve learned in a short period of time of working and researching sleep issues at CozyPure, it is definitely something I need to pay more attention to on my quest to healthier living. More sleep equals more energy. And more energy equals more weight loss. I’d clearly neglected a vital link in the chain to a healthier me. I need to solve this whole sleep conundrum.

Step one to solving this mystery has been sleeping on CozyPure’s bestselling LaNoodle pillow. While I can’t speak to the science of what tiny, little latex noodles masterfully stuffed in an organic casing should do for helping you sleep, but I feel tremendous after sleeping on one of these organic gems.

My neck pain has reduced greatly, as the LaNoodle cradles my rather bulbous head and shoulders in a way that makes drifting off to sleep a much less daunting task. With each passing night of sleeping on the LaNoodle pillow, I value sleep a bit more. And that is huge for me.
I don’t think any other product could’ve affected that change in me.

Sleeping on my new LaNoodle pillow, I begin to think maybe my sleep woes are more a case of I’ve been doing it, but I haven’t been doing it with the right tools. I guess it’s the equivalent of eating your farm fresh peas with a fork with only one tine. You can get it done but it probably could be done better with a spoon. So I’m thrilled I turned in my old pillow for a CozyPure LaNoodle pillow. It has opened the door to the school of healthy sleep. I can’t wait to see what CozyPure’s entire sleep system has to teach this country boy.

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How the CozyPure® Contour Pillow Changed My Life!

Purely sensational headline? Not to me! It’s the truth. If you’ve ever woken up with a stiff neck, you know how that stiffness and discomfort can affect your whole body, all day. Imagine waking up each and every day like that, for years! It had gotten so bad that one morning I woke with my head actually laying on my shoulder, the muscles in such a tight spasm that I could not lift my head up.

Prior to that episode, in the early 1990’s, I tried many remedies, not the least of which was a series of expensive (and toxic) thermal foam pillows, at well over $100 each, with no improvement. I finally went to a neurologist and began receiving botulinum toxin (Botox) shots into the muscles of my neck. I took these shots for years and it helped, but it was painful and expensive.

When the stiffness and discomfort returned, I was about ready to go back to the expensive, painful botox shots to avoid the crippling spasms. As it happens, I was a new employee at CozyPure® and learning how quality, deep sleep improves your whole heath, and ironically, Cheryl was beginning to prototype a new contour pillow and looking for feedback. When she heard about my neck issues, she asked if I would do the testing.

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The first night I was immediately impressed by the comfort and support under my neck. It’s important to know that I am primarily a side sleeper, and as I slept on it, I realized that other qualities of the pillow were also helping my comfort. The contour in the center not only provided a gentle curve that was supportive, but was also easily compressible and adjustable for my neck. Also the hollow of the contour allowed my ear to rest without causing any numbness from the pressure of my head against the pillow surface. In addition, my head was supported perfectly, so my neck didn’t curve downward.

This pillow was a revelation for me! With my neck aligned in it’s natural, neutral position, the stiffness and discomfort were drastically reduced. Now I wake up each day with my neck freely able to turn from side to side. My friends and family have commented that my head is sitting straighter on my shoulders, and I’ve noticed it myself in pictures.

My neck problem is a neurological one for which there is no permanent remedy. I had been resigned to the fact that I would periodically have to undergo the botox treatments for the rest of my life. Instead now, I sleep comfortably all night, and am able to function normally, with my head straight and movable… rehabilitated without botox shots!

It’s been over three years of comfort and blissful sleep because the CozyPure® Contour Pillow changed my life, and I am so grateful!

Patti
— by Patti Erickson

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Which Pillow Is Right For You?

Waking up with a stiff neck can be a pain; it can set your hole day up to be a struggle. It is very unpleasant to sit at a desk massaging your neck and shoulders to no avail. You wake up feeling worse than when you fell asleep all because your neck and shoulders have become stiff overnight. This can all be fixed with the right pillow, though.

While choosing the right pillow for you there are many factors that should go into your decision, and at the Organic Comfort Zone, there is a bundle of options for you to choose from.

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First of all, you should consider the fill of your pillow. Here there are a few different fill choices for you to choose from. For someone with a neck that should be elevated during sleep (snoring or apnea problems), perhaps an extra fill would do you justice to help open the airways – keeping the head and neck elevated can help with one’s breathing.  If you are a stomach sleeper, like myself, you might want to try using a pillow with a lite fill so that your body isn’t being stretched backwards.  And for those who are ambivalent to either choice, perhaps you might enjoy the regular fill which suits most side and back sleepers. Choosing the wrong fill can be uncomfortable and, of course, it can make one’s neck very stiff by the time that the morning hours roll around.

Next you should consider the softness of a pillow. In a lot of downy-feather pillows the fluff begins to fade within a year or two and usually the feathers disperse every night so the pillow goes flat (we don’t offer down pillows).

With a wool pillow the fluff is batting that provides a slight softness with support. The wool compresses and will become flatter with use so if you like that type of pillow, choose wool.  However, if you prefer a pillow that sinks and forms to your head, you might enjoy the La’Noodle pillow, because while it conforms to your head and neck, its fluff factor does not fade for ten or more years. You can sleep on the pillow every night and it will bounce right back to natural plumpness once fluffed. It offers both contouring support that is soft and squishy. Other pillow options at the Organic Comfort Zone include organic pure Kapok, Cotton, and Buckwheat.

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What’s Inside Your Pillow?

Many times customers call to compare our pillows to what they think are similar products which they’ve purchased in the past from other companies. According to our customers the products aren’t as comfortable as they hoped and they worry that our pillow will be the same. Organic Comfort Zone believes in being honest with our customers because we believe our CozyPure products speak for themselves when they are compared with other brands.

In efforts to put our customers at ease, we have decided to perform a test with a few brands that were brought to our attention. Look for yourself:

Oodles Pillow
This brand claims to have real latex noodles similar to our LaNoodle pillow.
In this photo you will see that half the pillow is filled with balls of synthetic polyester
batting and the “Oodles” are actually half latex and half foam (it’s very lumpy).
The outside quilted shell fabric is cotton on the top but with polyester backing.

Our CozyPure LaNoodles are the real deal. All latex, all the time. See below…

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the “MyPillow” brand pillow

This company labels The MyPillow as Americas “favorite” pillow. They say that the pillow is filled with their “patented,
medical grade polyfoam with antimicrobial and nonallergic properties”. In other words… ordinary shredded foam.

the ” Luxury Support Micro-Cushion” Latex Pillows

We opened this pillow and as you can see the pillow is filled with latex. However, the latex is blocked and stiff.
The latex used in this pillow are scraps and is shredded which is fairly common with some pillows but the shredding process here is more cut-up because there are large chunks of latex (instead of finely shredded) and the chunks are of various sizes and different firmness making the pillow feel pretty lumpy and uncomfortable.


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Both our CozyPure LaNoodle Pillow and Pure Performance pillow are made with 100% natural latex (no synthetic batting or foams blended). This creamy latex provides SOFT and RESILIENT support for your head and neck. And of course, it’s covered in 100% GOTS-certified organic cotton so your pillow breathes and you won’t get a hot head.

We opened these three pillows because they were the ones most people would call and compare our LaNoodle pillow to, and they were worried they wouldn’t like it, since they didn’t like these three pillows. We hope you can see that they are VERY different pillows, and we hope this helps you decide for yourself.

We believe in giving you a product that will last you for YEARS. We want you to be happy with your purchase and to rest assured that you are getting a quality product. If you’re worried about what’s in your pillow, you can perform this same test at home. Open your pillow and have a peek inside and ask yourself this question: Is this really what I paid for?

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Jamar Diggs is a PR Communications and Social Media team member for Norfolk, VA based business Organic Comfort Zone, manufacturers of CozyPure organic bedding and mattress. For more information visit organiccomfortzone.com or cozypure.com or call 757.480.8500.