Currently, there is significant demand for pillows with improved pressure-relief features made from natural materials, alternatives to petrochemical-based foams. To meet the requirements, we have developed the latex foam pillows from deproteinized natural rubber latex.
Sleep is important to rejuvenate human physical and mental health, thus indirectly affecting each person’s performance capacity.
Sleep environments, including mattress and pillow, play a major role in influencing sleep quality.
According to researchers, to improve sleep quality it is important to reduce sleep-disruptive events, such as neck pain, snoring and awakening. Sleeping on a pillow that doesnot properly support head and neck can create tension in neck muscles, and cause neck and shoulder pain.
Thus, development of pillows that support the head and neck joints at the correct positions during overnight sleep is an impor-tant consideration for researchers and industry alike.
High quality “memory foam” pillows have been recom-mended as therapeutic pillows that could offer better sleep quality.
However, memory foam pillows exhibit shorter lifespans than regular polyurethane foams.
Both memory foams and regular polyurethane foams are made from petrochemicals, in particular a mixture of iso-cyanates and polyols, but memory foams are typically more expensive than the regular polyurethane foams due to the additional chemical ingredients required to impart the slow recovery behaviour.
According to a previous study, isocyanates are a well-known cause of occupational asthma caused by high exposure, at work during manufacturing, or by sensitization.
This has raised awareness among users ofthe possibility that both memory foam and regular polyu-rethane foams could, over time, release toxic gases which may cause health hazards.
Further to that, it is well-known that petrochemical-based foam materials contribute to health and environmental issues as well as challenging waste management and disposal problems.
More-over, with the growing awareness concerning the rising risk of global warming and fossil fuel depletion, as well as new legislation that has been implemented by several countries to encourage the use of “green materials” in product manu-facturing, it is both timely and necessary to develop pillows that not only offer pressure-relief features but also that are made from less hazardous materials.
Post time: Nov-03-2022