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Aug 22, 2025

The Advantages of Sleeping Under a Down Comforter

The Advantages of Sleeping Under a Down Comforter

Article: The Advantages of Sleeping Under a Down Comforter

Part of what makes sleeping in a hotel bed so fantastic is the loft of the bedding and the feeling of being enveloped in comfort. That’s because most hotels have chosen to design their bedding with down comforters. Sleeping under a down comforter is the essence of luxury and comfort, but the advantages go beyond those.

Our Down Comforters Are the Perfect Combination of Cotton and Down

Over more than twenty years spent working with professional housekeepers in luxury hotels around the world, we’ve learned the secrets of creating a bed that will provide a quality night’s sleep. The advantages of our down comforters, including quality and durability, have made them the choice of our hotel clients.They aren’t just for winter months or for those who live in cold climates. Down comforters in varying weights can help you stay comfortable in any season or climate. That’s the power of down.

1. Down Comforters Bring the Essence of Your Favorite Hotel Bed to Your Bedroom

The first thing that typically catches your eye when you enter a hotel bedroomis the bed. It’s not just that it’s the largest piece of furniture and located in the center of the room. It’s the way the hotel staff has prepared the bed to be inviting. Much of that invitation is issued by the down comforter covering the bed, whether it’s topped by pillows at the head or decorated with a throw at the foot.

2. Clean Down Fill and Well-Maintained Down Comforters Create a Healthy Bed

Many people believe they are allergic to down fill when they’re actually reacting to the dust, dander, or dust mites that have collected on the down or the mildew that has resulted from moisture that occurs when the comforter has not been regularly laundered or thoroughly dried. You’ll want to begin with properly cleaned down fill and continue to maintain your comforter during its life for proper sleep hygiene.

Our feather and down products are all cleaned above industry standard to create a premium product.  We use a specialized cleaning process called CentroClean™ to ensure that our products are highly sanitized and hypoallergenic.  We wash our feathers and down for a minimum of 30-50 minutes using the appropriate detergent specifically created for feather and down cleaning. Our feathers are rinsed 20-30 times until the water is clean and tested. Once the wash line is checked for quality, the feathers are sent to steam dryers, resulting in feathers of great curl and loft.

To maintain your down comforters for years, it’s important to properly care for them. The best way to protect your down comforter is by pairing it with a protector or cover. This allows a customized look that matches your décor and reduces the number of times you’ll have to wash comforter as you can simply strip off the cover for regular laundering with your sheets.

It's likely your comforter will be subjected to accidents or spills that will require laundering. They should be laundered when they become soiled or there is an obvious smell. Even without obvious stains or smells, your down comforters should be laundered at least once each season and before storing them.

Wash on a gentle setting with mild laundry detergent and cold water. We recommend two rinse cycles for the best results. Once the wash cycle is completed, place your comforter in the dryer, and run the dryer on a gentle setting with wool dryer balls or clean tennis balls. This not only helps dry the material and down filling but also helps fluff the comforter up for superior comfort. Make sure the comforter is completely dry before removing it from the dryer and placing it in its cover. For all the information on caring for your down comforters, from fluffing regularly to storing, read our article on “How to Clean and Care for Your Down Comforter,” linked below.

3. Down Comforters Offer Superior Breathability

Down comforters offer exceptional breathability, which is part of the reason they can be used year-round. This breathability is enhanced with high-quality cotton, which helps wick unwanted moisture away and is ideal for those who tend to get warm throughout the night. Even the thickest, most luxurious winter-weight down comforters offer breathability as they help you stay warm through winter nights.

4. Down Comforters Can Last for Years

When you purchase a high-quality down comforter, you also purchase longevity. With proper care, down comforters can last for years.

5. Down Comforters Are Perfect for Any Season or Climate 

While many people think down comforters are only for use during the winter months, down comforters can be used all year and in any climate. The same breathability that’s loved by many during the winter months supports healthy sleep during the summer.

Consider the climate in which you live, as well as the temperature at which you keep your thermostat, to select the weight of your comforter. We manufacture natural comforters with white goose down in a variety of weights from our summer-weight comforters, perfect when you need the feel of a comforter without too much weight or warmth, to our premium winter-weight comforters, our heaviest white goose down comforters. We also offer a tropical lightweight down and feather comforter that feels like a cozy blanket that can be tucked in.

You may also want to switch your comforter according to the season by using a summer-weight comforter in the summer and a winter-weight comforter when the temperatures drop. If you’re not sure how you sleep, or you and your bed partner sleep at different temperatures, we recommend you begin with one of our all-seasons weight comforters. They are the choice of many hotel clients as they can provide quality sleep to a wide range of guests.

If you store your down products (comforters, pillows, or feather beds) for the season, be sure they are clean and completely dry. Never put them in plastic bags or plastic containers. Down is a natural product—it needs to breathe. If these products are enclosed in a plastic bag with no air holes, moisture can build up and they may begin to smell. Always store down products in appropriate containers in a dry area with proper ventilation. We recommend our storage boxes and zippered bags to protect them from dust or dirt when not in use.

6. Selecting a Down Comforter Requires Minimal Effort if You Understand What You’re Looking For

You need only answer a couple of questions to arrive at the right down comforter for you and your bed: 1) do you prefer down or down alternative fill, 2) do you sleep warm or cold, 3) what kind of construction should you expect, 4) what size and style works on your bed, and 5) how will you need to care for my comforter. We’ve laid it out the options, depending on your answers to these questions, in “Your Ultimate Guide to Choosing a New Comforter,” linked below.

When push comes to shove, you may not prefer a comforter with down fill. For customers who are allergic or simply prefer something other than down, we created our aquaplush® down alternative comforters. Our proprietary blend of 100% combed polyester aquaplush® fiber is hypoallergenic and offers the benefits of plushness, comfort, warmth, and ease of laundering. The choice of hotel customers that want to give their guests the option of down alternative comforters, our aquaplush hypoallergenic polyester comforters, have all the luxurious warmth and comfort of a down comforter without the down.

You deserve to sleep like a hotel guest under a cozy down comforter.

-Team at down etc

 

Read more: 

How to Clean and Care for Your Down Comforter

Why Choose down etc’s Organic-Cotton Covered Comforters?

Your Ultimate Guide to Choosing a New Comforter

How Can Couples Sleep Better? Separate Comforters

Why Summer-Weight Comforters Support Healthy Sleep

About down etc

For over twenty years, down etc has worked with hoteliers and professional housekeepers in hotels around the world to manufacture and provide pillows and bedding that will offer hotel guests memorably great sleep. Through our retail website, we seek to provide products that will result in the same quality sleep for our customers at home. We believe in the restorative power of a great night’s sleep, whether at home or away. That’s the reason down etc wrote the book on it, Roll Into a Perfectly Made Bed: All You Need to Know About the Art of Bedmaking.

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