How to Tell If Your Pillow Is Dead: A Textile Chemist’s Diagnostic Guide

Yes—your pillow is dead when it fails three objective, lab-verified textile performance thresholds: (1) loss of >40% loft retention after 15 minutes of standardized compression (AATCC Test Method 213), (2) surface pH ≥8.7 (indicating alkaline detergent residue that degrades down…



