Goose Down Comforter

Types of Bedding Allergens 

You might think that it’s just dust that nestles in your comforter and makes you sneeze. But a hypoallergenic comforter can keep out many types of bedding allergens, including:

• Indoor mold–make sure that hypoallergenic down comforter has a tight stitching or vinyl encasing and is kept in a dry room.
• Dust mite and cockroach droppings–use a duvet cover or pillow cover for extra insurance on your hypoallergenic bedding, but allergy control bedding usually has an impermeable membrane.
• Fungi spores that hide in dust mite droppings–allergy free bedding and duvet covers will block out fungi in your pillows and hypoallergenic down comforter.
• Tobacco smoke–you shouldn’t smoke in the bedroom, because fire hazards aside, even allergy free bedding can reek of smoke.
• Pet dander–it’s invisible and can linger on even allergy free bedding if you let Fido curl up on your hypoallergenic comforter.

Keep allergens away from your allergy control bedding and enjoy a sneeze-free slumber.

Few people are actually allergic to down. They’re really allergic to the dust, pollen and other allergens found on raw down and feathers. Quality, modern down bedding manufacturers put their down and feathers through a rigorous washing process that eliminates dirt or dust to ensure the down products are allergy free.

Certain manufacturers located in long-time, down-producing regions such as Hungary have very sophisticated methods for producing goose down allergy free comforters. Goose down products that are hypoallergenic help reduce the risk of allergic reactions.

It’s been found that goose down comforters harbor less allergies to down comforters than synthetic comforters, because the fabric encasing the goose down is often made of a tighter weave. Consequently, there is less chance of developing dust mites in down than in synthetic materials. When choosing your down comforter, consider the casing’s quality and the degree of warmth your down comforter will provide.

Choose a goose down comforter appropriate for your home’s environment or the region in which you live.

Some down comforter manufacturers offer an allergy free guarantee on their products. The down used in these allergy free comforters has been through a hypercleaning process. Gentle, biodegradable cleaning agents are used to wash the down. The down is then rinsed five to eight times.

Hypercleaning is gentle yet effective. It removes dust, dirt and allergens leaving the down up to four times cleaner than the down found in comforters that have not been hypercleaned. Even if you’ve purchased a down comforter with an allergy-free guarantee, it’s best to enclose the down comforter in a down comforter cover.