Bamboo Shredded Memory Foam Pillow
Bamboo has become a popular fiber used in material blends to create a thick, breathable, and naturally antimicrobial and hypoallergenic pillow casing. Due to the loft of the material itself, it is generally combined with shredded memory foam, or memory foam blend filling to create a versatile, shapeable, and often adjustable sleeping comfort.
Many of the bamboo pillow designs didn’t allow for the removal of filling yet they can serve the needs of most back, side, and stomach sleepers with their unique construction.
This is due to their use of shredded memory foam which allows for amazing malleability. The Ronkoff Bamboo Shredded Memory Foam Pillow is one we’ve researched and decided to take an up-close and personal look at. Our honest opinions surrounding comfort and its use can be found below.
Breakdown of the Ronkoff Bamboo Shredded Memory Foam Pillow
As one of the original designs that don’t depend on upon the addition or subtraction of fill for personal comfort, this pillow takes a simple idea combined with simple materials to create a popular product. The pillow is considered a 3-in-1, meaning all sleep positions can take advantage of it. Here, the fill shapes specifically to your body shape, and it bounces back to its original shape without creating compression sinks.
Bamboo is also hailed as a highly breathable fiber. Plus, shredded memory foam does not have any of the same types of heat retention issues as solid memory foam due to its many open-air pockets. This helps create a pillow with good airflow qualities for a cooler night’s sleep.
Unlike many pillows of similar construction, this one does not come tightly rolled or compressed flat. Rather, it was fully plump out of the box it was shipped in. The plastic it was wrapped in wasn’t generic. It provided information on the size of the pillow as well as good markings to know you’re getting exactly what you ordered (since occasionally third-party sellers mix up similarly described items).
The pillow did have a pretty strong off-gassing smell upon opening the bag. This is very common with many materials that have been in storage and wrapped in plastic. Memory foam, in particular, is known for its off-gassing after opening packages it was stored in. The strength of the smell went away almost immediately (not enough to smell up a room, but enough to smell when standing next to it), but an off-gassing lingering smell was noticeable upon the pillow when I placed my head against it a week later.
The information with the pillow does state this is normal, and the smell will eventually disappear over time, but I wasn’t going to sleep like that so I tossed it in the dryer with a dryer sheet and that took care of the issue. You can also place it outside in the sun to help with the process.
