Re-checked this quarter: earplugs and silk pillowcases

How we pick

RestfulPicks
About us

About RestfulPicks: help for quieter, darker, cooler nights

Guides to sleep masks, earplugs, sound machines, silk pillowcases and sunrise clocks, from what owners report and makers state.

Calm bedroom with a woven pendant lamp glowing over white bedding and a small round wooden nightstand

Eight shelves for four kinds of night

Start from what keeps you up, then pick a shelf.

Orange foam earplugs filling a clear glass jar held up by a hand

Noise

Snoring, traffic, thin walls.

Soft gray jersey sleep mask resting on rumpled white bedding

Light

Street lamps, early sun, a plane cabin.

Gray sateen pillowcases with a soft sheen beside a warm table lamp

Heat & feel

A warm pillow, a rough pillowcase.

Round glass lamp glowing softly on a bedside table in a dark bedroom

Mornings

Getting up while it is still dark.

8
sleep categories
4
kinds of guide
4
re-checks a year
0
prices, stars or scores
Black twin-bell alarm clock on a stack of books on a wooden nightstand beside an unmade bed

From "what keeps you up" to a list

  1. Name the problem

    Light, noise, heat or a dark morning decides which products share a list.

  2. Read what owners post

    Each printed quote stays on file with its page and posting date.

  3. Hold the maker to its label

    NRR, decibels, momme and care labels, printed as the maker's own figure.

  4. Order it, and say who did

    The editor sets the order, and the list says so.

Read the full method

Lines we don't cross at night

Five of the six rules every page keeps.

Why each rule exists
  • Health promises

    No product is said to cure, treat or improve sleep. Not medical advice.

  • Tests we never ran

    We pass on what owners say and makers state. No lab of ours.

  • Prices and scores

    No price, no stars, no marks out of ten.

  • Invented people

    No made-up names, faces or titles, and nobody posing as a doctor.

  • Rankings for sale

    No brand pays for a place, an award or a review.

Spotted something wrong?

A wrong figure, a renamed model or a broken link: tell us and we check it against the label.