Anti-Ageing’s best kept secret...

A guest blog by Sara Davenport of Reboot Health:

Want to wake up with smooth, shiny hair and without that early morning ‘crinkled’ look? For optimal beauty benefits make sure the pillow closest to your face is a silk one.

Silk has the same pH level as your skin, so sleeping on a silk pillowcase will keep your face naturally moisturised and soft and youthful looking, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Working away steadily on your behalf throughout the night.

Have you spent years sleeping on what you thought was the best option - cotton pillowcases? However soft, they are infinitely worse for your skin than sleeping on silk. Cotton is a coarser fabric, whatever its thread count, and according to studies, does the reverse of silk, taking moisture out of your skin and hair rather than putting it back in. 

Silk is graded according to momme, which refers to its weight and density. The majority of silk pillowcases on the market are made of between 16 and 19mm, and these are thinner, crease more and don’t wear so well. The better-quality versions tend to be made of 22mm, but there is a rarer, even more costly 25mm version, denser, thicker and longer lasting, though this makes it more expensive than its competitors. 

Think of your silk pillowcase in terms of Patek Philippe marketing. An heirloom to be passed down the generations, just as the best quality linens used to be! Treat yourself. Invest in the luxury of a silk pillowcase and kick yourself for not having tried it decades back.

Because you are definitely, in L’Oreal’s immortal words, ‘worth it’!

Available from Reboot Health for £62.00 - click here