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If you have a Marshalls home goods store near you they often have some great sheets at great prices, especially if you hit a mark down. I love 100% cotton not sateen and not microfiber that I iron the top sheet and pillow cases. I don't know if they are percale as I usually crack open the packaging and just feel them to see if they are what I am looking for.
Sateen is 100 percent cotton. It is tightly woven and feels more like finer silk. The more expensive sateen is as breathable as percale but not as rough. My skin is hyper sensitive- I get atopic dermatitis easily from anything abrasive etc. So Sateen is best for me. I take a silk cocoon to use traveling in case the sheets are too rough.
A couple years ago, our Costco here had some high thread count 100% cotton sheet sets with really deep pockets on the fitted sheets. They were pretty inexpensive since we bought two sets and we don't usually get two sets of things like that unless they're inexpensive. Those sheets are very cold sheets and perfect for summer.
Any 100% cotton sheet will be cooler than microfiber or any other man-made fabric. Also use a cotton mattress pad with cotton filling under the sheets.
You might suggest to your friend to take Vitamin E. It doesn't eliminate the hot flashes but it might reduce their severity. It worked for me.
A couple years ago, our Costco here had some high thread count 100% cotton sheet sets with really deep pockets on the fitted sheets. They were pretty inexpensive since we bought two sets and we don't usually get two sets of things like that unless they're inexpensive. Those sheets are very cold sheets and perfect for summer.
Just be aware that the higher the thread count, the thinner the sheet. You may or may not like that.
Any 100% cotton sheet will be cooler than microfiber or any other man-made fabric. Also use a cotton mattress pad with cotton filling under the sheets.
You might suggest to your friend to take Vitamin E. It doesn't eliminate the hot flashes but it might reduce their severity. It worked for me.
Not exactly. High thread count sheets are made with finer, thinner yarn. So they use more threads to make equivalent sheets.
Not the ones I have seen or tried. My experience has been finer, thinner yarn makes thinner sheets. They wear out easily. I put my foot through 2 of them a couple years ago. I guess they developed a "thin" spot.
I rotate some 400+ thread count cotton percale sheets on my bed - the trick to percale is that it softens with washing and use. Not a fan of "slithery" sateen sheets. In winter I used to love flannel sheets but I don't like the way they wash in - they are great at first.
We are a "2 temps" household - I sleep with the sheet and the blanket in fall/winter/spring and the spouse sleeps with sheet, blanket, second blanket, down comforter in the same time frame.
1st, I, too, vote for percale.
I overheard and sweat while sleeping, my OH is always freezing, so we too, are a 2 temp household.
I sleep with just a sheet and single lightweight blanket, my OH has sheet, microfiber blanky, heavy comforter and wears 3 layers to bed.
We keep an extra bath sheet under the sheets as my OH is known to sweat "a little" but we have a plastic mattress cover under the sheets, supposedly because that cover is required for the mattress warranty. The bath sheet absorb s the sweat.
Percale is no s and cool, and OP, I agree the microfiber sheets are of no help in keeping cool, they heat you up instead, or at least don't allow the heat to escape.
There is no easy answer when one is sweating during the winter, as ac keeps me cool during the warm months.
Good luck finding a "right fit," in bed clothes that will help your friend.
I hate 'em but they seem to be very popular. I think there are more microfiber sheets on Amazon than cotton.
I found some long staple percale sheets that go on lightning sale at Amazon in a couple hours and forwarded it to her. Hopefully she'll buy them.
Who cares how popular something is? If it isn't going to work for her situation, popularity means nothing. Never understood why people use popularity as the more important criteria to buy practical things. Maybe this would make a nice Christmas gift...expose her to something she might not think to try.
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