Weighted duvets

A weighted duvet or weighted blanket is just what the name suggests – a duvet with a weighted filling. The additional weight gives your body a comfortable and relaxing embrace when you lay down to rest. Many people prefer a weighted duvet prior to their ordinary duvet. Weighted duvets have been used in care and therapy for many years, to help relieve sleep difficulties.

Weighted duvets create pressure on the skin that feels similar to a soft embrace.

The pressure stimulates deep skin receptors and signals to our hormone system to produce and release feel-good hormones such as oxytocin.

The result includes deep relaxation and better sleep for the vast majority of users!

Pearl Classic is a high-quality weighted duvet consisting of seven layers, each of which has a specific function for achieving the highest quality and comfort. The filling consists of natural, honed glass pearls combined with polyester wadding. The grid pattern ensures a consistent and fluid pressure, helping you to relax.

Many users describe the feeling of the duvet as a soft embrace over the whole body.

Find out more about CURA Pearl Classic.

CURA Pearl Eco is a 100% natural duvet. The outer material of organic cotton and cotton wadding instead of polyester makes the weighted duvet perform outstanding breathability. It is also slightly warmer and fluffier than Pearl Classic and Pearl Basic.

The exclusive eye mask CURA Eye Rest is included when purchasing Pearl Eco, together with a cotton canvas bag for transport and storage of the duvet.

Find out more about CURA Pearl Eco.

Exclusive weighted duvet in 100% natural materials. Outer fabric and padding in organic cotton. Weight from glass beads. Pearl Cotton Eco is the duvet that makes a difference for your sleep as well as being healthy for the environment.

Find out more about CURA Pearl Cotton Eco.

New CURA Pearl Down is the weighted duvet with the perfect balance between functionality and wonderful fluffiness.

CURA Pearl Down is a unique weighted duvet in seven layers. The padding consists of glass pearls and two layers of fluffy down, 75% duck down and 25% feathers for a total of 600 grams. Together, it creates a comfortable temperature and the relaxing effect that characterizes all weighted duvet from CURA of Sweden.

Find out more about CURA Pearl Down.

This unique weighted duvet combines the fluffy feel of 1,000 grams of certified goose down with a comforting weight.

When we designed CURA Pearl Down Lux, we wanted for the best of two worlds to meet: a premium down duvet's lushness and a weighted duvet's soothing weight. CURA Pearl Down Lux will tempt you to linger in bed just a little longer. A perfect choice for the colder autumn and winter season or simply for those who prefer a warm and fluffy duvet all year round."

Find out more about CURA Pearl Down Lux.

The perfect weight of a weighted duvet can be very individual to achieve the best effect and comfort. Parameters like weight and height play an essential part, as well as stress, anxiety, worry and difficulty sleeping. 

The basic rule is to choose a weight that you calculate from your own body weight. CURA of Sweden recommends that you choose a duvet equivalent to 10 – 15 % of your body weight. This is, however, just a recommendation.

Read more about choosing a weight for your weighted duvet.

Like adults, children may experience difficulty sleeping and have trouble coming to rest at night. They might feel uneasy or struggle with nightmares. A weighted duvet can help children relax, unwind and have a better quality of sleep

For many years, health care has prescribed weighted duvets as a sleep aid for children with neuropsychiatric disabilities, such as ADHD or autism. Studies have found that weighted duvets help children relax, unwind and increase sleep quality.

Read more about weighted duvets for children.

Feeling tired is something that many women experience during their pregnancy. Difficulty finding a sleeping position, nasal congestion or vivid dreams can all be disturbing factors that affect sleep. A weighted duvet can serve as a natural aid for deeper relaxation and better sleep.

Weighted duvets have been used successfully in Swedish healthcare for nearly 15 years. The duvet has often been used to treat sleep problems for patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, severe pain or anxiety. 

Today we know that the effects of using weighted duvets apply to almost all people, regardless of medical background and degree of sleep problems.

In addition, people who consider themselves to sleep well experience improved sleep when using a weighted duvet.

You might think that the use of heavy duvets is a new phenomenon. But in fact, people have used heavy duvets throughout most of our history.

Historically, people used heavy animal skins and straw mats when the night's chill made extra warmth necessary. And before the lightweight down duvets of the 195Os and the mass-produced, cost-effective fake fibre duvets of the 197Os, significantly heavier broadcloth duvets were most commonly used in households across Scandinavia.

Previous studies have shown that using a weighted duvet can alleviate insomnia. In a recent study, the sleep researcher Christian Benedict from Uppsala University, have studied healthy young women and men to see if the use of a weighted duvets from CURA can increase the production of the hormones melatonin and, oxytocin.

The results show that the use of a weighted duvet increases melatonin in healthy young adults at bedtime.

Christian Benedict | University lecturer at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Research; Pharmacology

"Oxytocin is released when activated by various sensory nerves in the skin and relieves anxiety, stress and pain."

– Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg,

Doctor and professor who specializes in feel-good hormones.

CURA of Sweden has a long-term ambition to improve the public health by helping people to healthy sleep. In this mission, we tie bands and listen to authorities in the academic world. We collaborate with professors, doctors, scientists and therapists that stands behind our work.

Read more about our expert panel.

All CURA duvets are machine washable! Our CURA Pearl weighted duvets are machine washable at 40-60 degrees using a slower spin speed, depending on the model. Alternatively, you can freeze your duvet either in the freezer or by hanging it out when temperatures drop below zero. This will eliminate mites.

Read more about how to wash your CURA duvet.

At CURA, we are passionate about sleep and put a lot of time and effort into developing our products to meet our high standards in terms of quality and function. This is why we offer a wide range of weighted duvets and blankets to fit each and every one's individual needs to be able to get a good night's sleep and wake refreshed time and time again. That's why we not only offer a variety of different sizes, 135 x 200, 150 x 210, and 150 x 200 cm, but also many different weights for our weighted duvets. Depending on the model, we usually offer our duvets either with a weight of 3 kg, 5 kg, 7 kg, 9 kg, 11 kg, 13 kg, or 15 kg, or in a weight of 6 kg, 8 kg, 10 kg, and 12 kg. Additionally, we know how important the quality and materials of our bedroom products are. Therefore, we have developed weighted duvets in different materials and fabrics equipping them with certain properties. Amongst our product range, you can find cooler, moisture-wicking weighted duvets made of Lyocell, warming, temperature-regulating down duvets, eco-friendly weighted duvets made of organic cotton, and even more inexpensive but just as high-quality weighted duvets made of cotton and polyester.