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How to Choose an Aireloom Memory Foam Pillow

Memory foam is viscoelastic, meaning it softens under body heat and pressure and then recovers slowly instead of springing back. In a pillow that behaviour has three consequences worth knowing before you buy. It holds the shape of your head and neck rather than pushing back, so pressure spreads out instead of concentrating at one point. It stays where you put it and never needs fluffing, because there is no loose fill to migrate. And it answers to temperature, so the same pillow feels firmer in a cold bedroom and noticeably softer a few minutes after you lie down. The Aireloom pillows here carry a Plush feel, which suits sleepers who want the surface to yield at the ear and cheek rather than hold a high, firm shape against the side of the head.

The choice on this page is loft, and effectively nothing else. The Nimbus Visco comes in a High Profile and a Low Profile, both Plush, both a solid memory foam core under a Tencel cover, so the only thing separating them is how far your head sits above the mattress. Pick the one that fills the gap your sleeping position leaves. Side sleeping opens the widest gap, because the shoulder holds the head furthest from the surface, so side sleepers generally want the High Profile. Stomach sleeping leaves almost no gap, and lifting the head there turns the neck and arches the lower back, so the Low Profile is the safer pick. Back sleepers sit between the two, and how far your shoulders sink into your mattress decides which way to lean. If it was actually a mattress you were after, start with all mattresses or the memory foam collection.