If you are suffering from insomnia, long tossing and turning from side to side, you can not fall asleep by the light of a desk lamp, while your husband or children are reading a book, or learning lessons - an effective helper will be a sleep bandage.
Good restful sleep is a real panacea for human health. Scientists have proven that there are several factors affecting the quickest way to fall asleep:
- complete silence;
- lack of light stimuli;
- comfortable bed with a moderately hard mattress;
- large heavy blanket;
- bandage for sleep.
Let's tell in more detail about bandages.
What is the eye patch for sleeping?
Sleep bandages are often called masks - a fabric special accessory designed to protect the eyes from any light source during sleep is used both at home and in transport.
What for and who needs?
There is a huge variety of types of this accessory and your dream depends on the right choice. The accessory creates the effect of complete darkness, which contributes to the development of the hormone melatonin in the body, which is responsible for healthy sound sleep.
With the help of this attribute, it is possible to sleep peacefully in the daytime, it is acceptable for working people at night.
When you need to work at night and have a good night's sleep, which is very difficult in bright daylight.
It often happens that one of the family members cannot fall asleep in the dark, he needs a night light or a desk lamp, as a rule, these are small children. And you can just fall asleep to her, experiencing irritation and anxiety from the rays that hit your eyes. And in this case the bandage will become your assistant again.
The masks are very useful for people whose work is related to working at a computer, as they relieve eye muscle tension well, restoring healthy eyes.
Types of masks and selection criteria
How to choose a suitable blindfold for sleep? First, decide what mask you need, for this, use the following classification.
Design
Now, in addition to universal masks, you can choose men, women’s or children’s stores with different patterns and sizes. There are even cosmetic dressings that can also be used for sleep. Manufacturers often surprise customers with their irrepressible imagination, so the choice of accessory depends on your tastes and interests.
Material: synthetic or natural fabrics?
As a rule, the dressings are always very dense, completely excluding the transmission of solar or artificial light.
Choosing synthetic fabrics, you may experience allergies, itching, and unpleasant scratching in the eye area. But the price of such dressings at times less than natural. Doctors advise not to save on their health and choose only high-quality materials.
Cotton and silk are natural fabrics. Let us examine in more detail each of them. The cotton mask has adjustable sizes, the filler is usually foam or sinteponovye components. Such a bandage does not cause discomfort, pleasantly fits your eyelids, creates a soft and affectionate touch with the skin. It has no cons in use.
Silk material is suitable for all people, regardless of age and preferences, and is considered hypoallergenic, does not cause any unwanted effects. Good to use, durable, but has a huge disadvantage - it is a high price for the product.
Fillers - synthetic winterizer or gel?
As for the padding polyester, it can be said that it is a versatile non-woven material with excellent properties: high durability, durability, safety, environmental friendliness.
Gel masks are a specialized cosmetic attribute, help smooth unwanted wrinkles around the eyes, tone muscles, relax and relieve fatigue. As well as the usual dressings are suitable for a restful sleep, without missing light.
They are flavored with a different smell of delicate essential oils of flowers and herbs. Perfect for women living in polluted metropolitan areas, will be an excellent antidepressant after a hard day's work. With such dressings, various rollers and inserts are supplied:
- cooling gel will relieve fatigue;
- magnetic inserts in the form of glasses remove the hypertonicity of the muscles, enhance the regeneration of the skin;
- tourmaline threads normalize the nervous system and improve blood circulation;
- the pad impregnated with copper oxide makes the skin smooth and velvety.
Before buying such dressings, consult a doctor or a cosmetologist. And, of course, do not overdo it in use.
A dressing for sleep can be chosen solely depending on the material well-being of citizens. Wearing a blindfold can be no more than 12 hours a day.
Table of the cost of sleep dressings:
| Name | Production | Material | Price in rubles |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Apple | Italy, handmade | silk | from 2950 |
| GRAPHITE | Italy | silk | from 2900 |
| Dark flowers | Germany | gel | from 1200 |
| Daydream with cooling properties | Germany | gel | from 1200 |
| Dark night | Russia | cotton | from 800 |
| Morpheus | Russia | cotton | from 490 |
| Sweet dreams | China | synthetics | from 120 |
Tip when choosing a mask for sleep - never get this accessory with stickies. Since such dressings quickly lose their binding function, they also become strongly entangled in the hair, causing discomfort and irritation to the wearer.
Also, bandages with elastic bands can squeeze your temples unpleasantly, making it difficult to fall asleep, so before buying an accessory, measure the circumference of your head with a soft meter, and choose a bandage according to specified parameters.
Remember, sleep dressings are completely unsuitable for girls who have extended eyelashes. Even with a single use of the cilia stick together or may even remain on the bandage. Therefore, the choice is yours - beauty or sleep.
For modern people seeking to acquire things, that is, produced in the age of electronic technology, there are "smart" sleep dressings. A special device, stuffed with various electronic devices, allows you to read the state of a person at the current time.
It controls brain impulses, automatically switching from monophasic to polyphasic sleep. How it works?
A special electronic mask sends a wake-up signal gradually increasing the light beam. A man after such a dream feels vigorous and well-sleep.
The presence in the menu of different sleep modes will allow you to select the desired - a long night or short day. This allows you to adjust the sleep cycle in people who work in shifts or in a person with the syndrome "confused day to night."
This bandage is called NeuroOn and has a cost of more than 10 thousand rubles. But doctors do not support the enthusiasts of this purchase, since the body can get used to this accessory, and then the person will not be able to fall asleep at all until he puts on this bandage.
How to sew a blindfold for sleep with your own hands
However, it is not necessary to spend big money on the purchase of sleep bandages. You can just do it yourself, spending quite a bit of time. For this you will need:
- Any soft fabric with dimensions of 30 * 15 cm;
- A filler - cotton wool, a synthetic winterizer;
- Flizelin for finishing;
- 30 cm underwear gum.
The first step is to measure your head from temple to temple across the forehead. This will be the width of your dressing. Next, make patterns, imitating glasses for the eyes. Before you cut the pattern, add to the sides of the centimeter for firmware.
Next, the pattern is attached to the fabric, do the workpiece. Sew, leaving one side for the filler. Carefully distribute the cotton wool with the tips of the scissors, or synthetic winterizer and sew. Take a flizelin or a fringe, sew around the edges and fix the gum on the endings of the dressing directly in the middle.
Iron the product and use it on your health, or rather strong and healthy sleep to you.
Opinion of experts and feedback from people
I think masks are a very useful thing. Healthy sleep is necessary, and such dressings help to adjust the night hours, creating an atmosphere of peace and comfort. Beneficial effect on the body as a whole.
Svetlana, 31, Moscow
I suffer from insomnia in the summer. Bright sun and short days do not give enough sleep. I got a bandage for sleep and the problem is solved.
Marina, 47 years old, Krasnodar
I work at night, during the day I have to sleep. I close the curtains, but still can not sleep. The bandage helped.
Alexey, 27 years old, Omsk
I have always considered sleep masks to be useless things, but in fact it turned out to be an unrealistically cool accessory. I bought myself a silk dressing with gel filler - I really like it. Now every morning I get up rested and refreshed.
Victoria, 23 years old, Astrakhan
Another master-class on making a sleep mask with your own hands - in the next video.
