Today, the world is once again undergoing a linen boom. The gravitation of current fashion trends towards all that’s natural doesn’t fully account for this resurging popularity – cotton, for one, is also a natural product that does not offer nearly as many health benefits. Linen is an excellent antiseptic that suppresses pathogenic microflora and soothes itches, burns, and other inflammatory manifestations.

            Linen is twice as strong as cotton and three times stronger than wool. Since fabrics made of linen are hygroscopic, they absorb moisture and provide for a cool sleeping experience in the heat – making linen bedding essential for hot and humid climates.  Because water evaporates from linen with nearly the same speed as from the surface of a reservoir, its fabric always remains fresh and cool. Linen is able to arrest the development of bacteria and does not cause any allergies; furthermore, the silica present in the flax fiber prevents it from rotting.

            According to scientists, not only is linen bedding ecologically friendly, it is also antistatic – which explains why it remains cleaner for longer periods of time, doesn’t cling to the body, and isn’t easily wrinkled. It’s insulating in the winter and cooling in the summer - relieving the skin of excessive heat when body temperature rises to an uncomfortable level. At times like this, linen bed sheets will make it seem as though the temperature has dropped by 4 or 5 degrees Celsius. Unlike cotton bedding, which yellows with time, linen bedding is prone to become whiter the more that it’s put to use!

            Doctors recommend that those people who have problematic or hypersensitive skin, suffer from dermatological disorders, have allergies, or are asthmatics sleep on white linen bedding. The advantages of linen are innumerable – another one of which is that resting on linen bed sheets will ease the pain and discomfort caused by sunburns.

            It’s no secret that houses collect a radioactive gas called radon, especially after the installation of tight plastic windows. Radon is formed at the disintegration of uranium, contained in the ground as well as building materials. There are only two ways to be protected from the harmful effects of this gas: the first alternative is to keep your windows open at all times and the other is to sleep on linen bedding. The latter curtails the levels of radiation over two-fold and cuts the impact of gamma-radiation in half.