What is a Duvet?

What is a Duvet? A duvet is a cover for your comforter. A Down comforter or an alternative Down comforter. The duvet covers your comforter, much like a pillowcase covers a pillow. It protects the comforter from dirt and moisture. It also protects it from allowing the down, feathers or man made fibers from sneaking out. Consequently, it lengthens the life of your comforter. I didn’t know the purpose of a duvet, or what it was, when I got my first down comforter. I thought that it was just for show and since I wasn’t trying to decorate with it, I didn’t think I needed it. After a couple of years the feathers in my down comforter were protruding way too much. I remember, vividly, my grandson jumping onto my bed, looking alarmed and getting off just as quickly. He had been poked by the feathers and the bed was made! He vowed that he wouldn’t do that again. That made me realize that it wasn’t just me. The protruding feathers were a problem. I took it to the dry cleaners, fully expecting that they would, normally, restore the down comforter to it’s original state. Wrong! It seems that the only way anyone can remove the protruding feathers is not to poke them back into the comforter, as I had expected, but to completely remove the feathers. That would produce a far inferior product than I, originally, had. The cost to have a down comforter dry cleaned is pretty hefty. I decided that to pay that much for an inferior product wasn’t a good idea. A new Down comforter and Duvet would definitely be worth my time and investment. You wash a duvet cover! No need to have the protruding feathers removed because they don’t protrude when encased by a duvet. The comforter doesn’t need to be dry cleaned anywhere near as often. That seemed like a bargain, so that’s what I did.
Other comforters, especially Alternative Down Comforters, even though the filling is man-made, can produce little particles of filling that sneak out of the comforter. I learned that after a few years with my Alternative Down Comforter. Yes, I have both. Alternative comforters can use a duvet for the same purposes of protecting the comforter from dirt and moisture and preventing lose of some of the filling. Duvets are definitely a good and practical idea. If you’re decorating with your comforter, they also serve to change the décor at any time.

Devoted Down Comforter user---the "hard way"

Down Comforters are comforters with down material and down feather filling, the warmest material known to man. They give good insulation that keeps you warm and toasty all night long. Down bedding and comforters are soft, fluffy and cuddly.
Let me tell you how I learned this by experience. Before my hip replacements, and before the medical profession had figured out why I was in pain, I was in a LOT of pain. Warmth always seemed to relieve the pain and made me feel better for awhile. I went to a pain doctor, who thought that I should use magnets. I had tried magnetic insoles and they just made my pain worse. The doctor said that that pain was just my body getting rid of the toxins. What did I know? She was the doctor. She just 'happened' to be selling magnetic mattresses and magnetic comforters. She offered to let me try these products. I remembered the terrible pain those insoles had caused. I was hesitant, but she was a pain doctor---she must know. So I tried them. That night was incredibly, painful, much more than usual. The next night I decided that ALL toxins must be out of my body, so I tried it again. Not a good idea. The pain was just as bad. This time I tried for a little while, then I bundled the mattress and comforter into their package and went back to sleeping under my electric blanket. A year or so later, I was discussing the weather with my chiropractor. I had shared my experience with magnets with her previously. It was a cold winter and I said that I was cold, adding that I always turn my electric blanket on at night, but I'm still cold. She looked at me. Her eyes were as big as saucers and she said, “You do know that an electric blanket is a magnetic field, don’t you?” I didn’t know that. I asked how I would stay warm at night without a lot of blankets. She said that she used a Down Comforter and a feather bed. She said that she was toasty warm that way. I thought about it a lot, but I must admit that I promptly quit using my electric blanket. I haven’t used one to this day and don’t intend to. I bought a Down Comforter and feather bed and she was right. I was warm and toasty. I was able to turn the heat down at night and save a little on my heating bill.
When you get up in the morning, after spending the night under a Down Comforter, and especially when you slip out from between a Down Comforter and a feather bed, you stay warm for awhile. You’re never hot, just pleasantly warm. You can go make your coffee. Then you need to turn the heat back up again. Even though I have now had the hip replacements and am no longer in great pain, I love the warmth and coziness of my Down Comforter and feather bed. I am now a devoted Down Comforter and feather bed user. The Down Comforter stays on all year. The feather bed goes on when it's really cold out.

Go to my website, cozycomfortersplus. com, and you will see products and more information. Down comforters will surely provide you the comfort you need after a very tiring day. Down comforters are available in a variety of weights, qualities, colors and sizes for a comfortable, restful sleep that will keep you warm during cold seasons. The same comforter will give you a comfortable, restful sleep during every season of the year. You may want to switch to a lighter comforter in very warm seasons.Down filling is the warmest material known to man. Comforters that are made of this material are light and provide superior insulation.

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