Anti aging bed linen

Obesity, poor concentration, depression and aging are all after-effects of long-term insufficient sleep or sleep deprivation. And while there are many reasons for not getting a good nights rest - stress, consumption of alcohol, caffeine and some medications, PMS and a lack of routine to name a few – identifying the problem is often easier than solving it.

When you’re suffering from insomnia, or a mere lack of time beneath the sheets, it’s often your face that suffers first. Your skin looses its elasticity, your eyes sink into their sockets, bags and dark circles appear and you begin to look as dull and lifeless as you feel. Try as you might nothing seems to help.

Given I too have tried it all: drinking chamomile tea and warm milk, supplementing with herbs and magnesium, burning lavender oil and having a bath before bed - and you can forget counting sheep; that just leads me to count bills and calories – when I heard about anti-aging bedding I was like, Oh, come on! But, low and behold, it exists.

Available in the US (fingers crossed it’ll make its way here soon. I want to try it at least) is the SkinGlow range of bed linen. Containing copper oxide plated fibers “designed to restore the skin”, and possessing anti-inflammatory, non-allergenic properties said to eliminate bacteria and fungus, this 300-thread count, machine washable bedding claims to iron out wrinkles while preventing new lines from forming. Not a bad sales pitch, huh?

Obviously SkinGlow isn’t claiming to make us sleep any better, but if it were to make us look better, then that’s half the battle won, as far as I’m concerned. And yes, even though it does reek of too-good-to-be-true hyperbole, there is some merit to the use of copper: for years now creams and serums have been infused with the metal in an effort to ward off the signs of time.