You may be suffering from synthetic fibers, check your clothing and bedding for polyester. It has very poor characteristics for comfort and feeling hot and sweaty is a key characteristic. This isn’t some hippie shit, you’ll genuinely be much more comfortable in real non-plastic fibres and you’ll significantly reduce your microplastic generation and exposure as a direct byproduct.
After abandoning plastic fibers, I can’t even put on a polyester jumper in winter without overheating and getting sweaty. Real organic fibres are so much more comfortable and only marginally more expensive.
This is entirely inconsistent with my experience, so I suspect there is no correlation. My polyester shirts are silky and breathable, and my cotton blankets are rough and scratchy. I’m sure you have your on experiences that seem to validate your view, so I suspect there is no correlation. Perhaps there is some other processing factor that determines how comfortable or breathable a fabric turns out to be.
Only difference I’ve reliably seen between cotton and polyester is that cotton degrades faster, which makes you buy clothes more often. If you throw clothes away a lot, cotton is better for the environment. If you wear clothes until they’re unusable, polyester is better for the environment.
Did you know it’s better for the environment to keep an old gas car running than to buy a new electric vehicle? It’s the same principle. One Polyester shirt that lasts 20 years is better than 20 cotton shirts degrading year after year.
Just switched back to mine as well after a short while with some polyester stuff and the difference is just night and day. No sweating, no overbearing heat. The blanket is the same but the linnen sheets just work so much better
No, but the living conditions of many sheep in the wool industry, particularly merino wool, are horrible. Look up mulesing
The mere act of milking cows or taking eggs from chickens is also not animal cruelty, that doesn’t mean store bought dairy and eggs are free from animal cruelty
I second this. I’m almost always too hot and realized years ago that polyester fabrics made it worse. It’s one of the reasons my ex and I used different blankets - I used a 100% cotton sheet, but he was the type of person who’s usually cold, so he used fuzzy polyester blankets. He thought my blanket was too light, while I thought his was too hot.
The struggle to avoid polyester is the hardest part. I have a significant yarn collection for all my art projects, but over the past few years I’ve been trying to avoid polyesters (to avoid contributing to microplastics.) The only polyesters I bought since then were either made of recycled materials, or were special glow-in-the-dark kinds (because I haven’t found cotton or bamboo yarn with that feature yet.)
You may be suffering from synthetic fibers, check your clothing and bedding for polyester. It has very poor characteristics for comfort and feeling hot and sweaty is a key characteristic. This isn’t some hippie shit, you’ll genuinely be much more comfortable in real non-plastic fibres and you’ll significantly reduce your microplastic generation and exposure as a direct byproduct.
After abandoning plastic fibers, I can’t even put on a polyester jumper in winter without overheating and getting sweaty. Real organic fibres are so much more comfortable and only marginally more expensive.
This is entirely inconsistent with my experience, so I suspect there is no correlation. My polyester shirts are silky and breathable, and my cotton blankets are rough and scratchy. I’m sure you have your on experiences that seem to validate your view, so I suspect there is no correlation. Perhaps there is some other processing factor that determines how comfortable or breathable a fabric turns out to be.
Only difference I’ve reliably seen between cotton and polyester is that cotton degrades faster, which makes you buy clothes more often. If you throw clothes away a lot, cotton is better for the environment. If you wear clothes until they’re unusable, polyester is better for the environment.
Clothing made of plastic fibers that will forever become smaller microplastics are certainly not better for the environment
Did you know it’s better for the environment to keep an old gas car running than to buy a new electric vehicle? It’s the same principle. One Polyester shirt that lasts 20 years is better than 20 cotton shirts degrading year after year.
Wearing cotton shirts doesn’t result in microplastics accumulating in the organs of those around you
Preach!
With some very specific exceptions, natural fibers are far better.
Give me a wool blanket or sweater (jumper in your terms I believe).
Wool is freakin magic.
My only exception is workout gear - the specialty synthetics are fantastic.
I love my linnen bedsheets in the summer, expensive as hell, but damn, they have the perfect temp for me.
Just switched back to mine as well after a short while with some polyester stuff and the difference is just night and day. No sweating, no overbearing heat. The blanket is the same but the linnen sheets just work so much better
Linen sheets are top tier. Hemp too.
Hemp is also amazing and doesn’t involve animal cruelty
Giving sheep a haircut is cruel?
No, but the living conditions of many sheep in the wool industry, particularly merino wool, are horrible. Look up mulesing
The mere act of milking cows or taking eggs from chickens is also not animal cruelty, that doesn’t mean store bought dairy and eggs are free from animal cruelty
The real preach! I really wish hemp becomes more common for many things, as it used to be.
I second this. I’m almost always too hot and realized years ago that polyester fabrics made it worse. It’s one of the reasons my ex and I used different blankets - I used a 100% cotton sheet, but he was the type of person who’s usually cold, so he used fuzzy polyester blankets. He thought my blanket was too light, while I thought his was too hot.
The struggle to avoid polyester is the hardest part. I have a significant yarn collection for all my art projects, but over the past few years I’ve been trying to avoid polyesters (to avoid contributing to microplastics.) The only polyesters I bought since then were either made of recycled materials, or were special glow-in-the-dark kinds (because I haven’t found cotton or bamboo yarn with that feature yet.)
Of synthetic, I can recommend rayon (that’s made from bamboo), also known as viscose. While it is synthetic, it breathes wonderfully.
I believe it also breaks down organically? So probably not one to be grouped with the plastic threads like nylon, acrylic, polyester