Wearing a silk head wrap to sleep protects your hair from damage and helps preserve your style. This article explains why a pure mulberry silk scarf outperforms cotton and satin to be the best choice for promoting hair health overnight.
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If sleeping in a head scarf is a regular part of your beauty routine, you know how important it is to protect your hair overnight. But not all headscarves are created equal. In fact, choosing the best fabric for your overnight head scarf is super important, and can make all the difference to how your hair looks and feels. The Mulberry Park Silks design team is here to offer some insight into helping you choose the perfect head scarf. (Spoiler alert: we think you’re definitely going to want one of our pure mulberry silk bandana head scarves).
Why Wear a Headscarf to Sleep?
Taking a minute to think about why you wear a headscarf to sleep in the first place makes it easy to understand why some fabrics are far better for sleeping in than others. Wearing the proper headscarf to sleep goes a long way to helping you maintain healthy hair that looks and feels fabulous. It reduces frizz (especially on coarse or curly hair), prevents breakage, protects your hairstyle, and keeps it well moisturized while you sleep. That’s a lot of performance from a single fabric, and not every fabric is up to the task.
Cotton vs. Satin vs. Silk Head Scarves
Cotton, satin, and pure silk are three popular materials for head scarves, but they perform quite differently. Cotton, which is known for its absorbency, is not a great choice for a head scarf; in fact, absorbent cotton will actually pull moisture away from your hair while you sleep (this is also why we say sleeping on a cotton pillowcase is a bad idea). Moreover, even the finest cotton weave contains tiny fibers that can actually snag and break hair strands, all of which contributes to split ends and frizz.
That leaves a choice between satin and silk. Both of these fabrics are soft and smooth, but they are quite different.
- Silk is a natural fiber, while satin is a petroleum based synthetic fabric woven to have a smooth surface.
- Silk is breathable and moisture wicking, while satin traps moisture and stays wet.
- Like your hair, silk is protein based. This means silk will keep your hair naturally moisturized. In fact, silk protein, known as fibroin, is a popular ingredient found in many salon conditioning treatments.
- Silk is hypoallergenic and resistant to mold, dust, and mites. Silk accessories and bedding are a wonderful choice for anyone with sensitive skin or allergies. Satin, on the other hand, is susceptible to collecting these environmental pollutants.
Learning how to differentiate genuine silk from fake/artificial satin is very important. This blog explains how to tell real silk from fake when you are shopping for a silk headscarf, silk pillowcase, or silk sheets.
A Pure Silk Head Scarf from Mulberry Park Silks: Your Best Choice
