Customer Reviews

Memory Face Cradle Pillow -Sherpa Covered Face Pillow by Core Products

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The pillow is generally as advertised. It should be strongly advised to the consumer that this pillow cannot be used well on a bed without making some provision for breathing. A spacer of some sort is needed if this is not used on a massage table type device with a hole for breathing. The pillow cover does have velcro sewn into it, but it included no velcro to mate it with, so the pillow opening can widen and leave your face falling through. The pillow advertising just needs more information for the public.

Due to eye surgery I needed to sleep face-down for a week. I looked at several face-down pillows as a possible solution. Most were not suitable due to the following 2 problems:

1) Not enough air flow so you can't breath all night
2) No forehead support

My solution came in 2 steps, as follows:

First - Buy the "Memory Face Cradle Pillow - Sherpa Covered Face Pillow by Core Products" (sold here on Amazon.com for $46.99)
This is the type of pillow that massage therapists use on their tables. The pillow supports your forehead and cheeks in very soft memory foam. The chin area is open so it's comfortable for extended periods of time.

Second - The height of this "Memory Face Cradle Pillow" is 3" so your mouth is very close to the mattress. In order to increase the air flow around the pillow, you need to raise the pillow up off of the bed about 2" by placing the pillow on a platform. So to make a platform, I went to my local home improvement store and bought one 6' long board that was 2" wide and 1" thick. (cost $4.13) I sawed the board into 3 pieces to form a U shape and then sawed four 2" pieces for the legs of my platform. I nailed these pieces together and the end result was a little wood platform to sit my "Memory Face Cradle" pillow on top of. Now, because the pillow is resting on top of this platform and not directly on the mattress, there is airflow all around the pillow. Without this platform, the foam pillow will squash down as you sleep so your mouth will be right on the mattress. The only way to ensure air flow is to build the wood platform and sit the pillow on top of this platform.

I am so glad I got this for Christmas! I suffer from chronic neck pain due to a series of car accidents, so my husband often gives me massages at night to help ease the pain. I hated trying to position pillows "just right" so I could breath while facing down because it never worked and I couldn't relax all the way because I was so concerned with breathing. Now that I have this, I can breath while faced down, relax, and enjoy my massage. (Oh, it's so wonderful!) The reason I didn't give this product five stars is I do have to agree with a previous reviewer that the memory foam collapses so your face almost touches the ground (so it gets hard to breath after a while), but what I do is roll a towel to put under it so my face is still raised even if the foam squishes down. Bottom line: if you are a person who wants to breath while getting back or neck massages while faced down, this pillow is for you! (And you can't beat the price compared to buying an entire massage table so you can get a face opening!)

I have an $800 Custom Craftworks massage table. Even with a fairly pricey table, the face cradle was uncomfortable for most of my clients. I bought this hoping it would remedy. I didn't tell any of my clients I got a new one. Yet every one of them has commented how they feel their face is on a cloud now. No more imprints from a harder regular foam in their face any more. It is a great price and worth it 1,000X over as my clients leave THAT much happier. Memory foam is amazing

This pillow may have been designed for professional use, but it works well for home massage. My wife can lie face down on the bed with her face in the pillow while I rub her shoulders. It may be a little claustrophobic, however, but good soft support.

I purchased this pillow in order to give my wife more relaxing back massages. It can be pretty awkward, and sometimes very uncomfortable, to receive a massage when you're using a regular pillow that requires you to lay on the side of your face. This face pillow definitely does the job and allows you to lay comfortably with your face straight down.

I got this pillow hoping I could use it to sleep on my stomach without turning my head to the side and straining my neck. It didn't work out so well for that because it's not firm enough to maintain a comfortable breathing space beneath it; however, it does work great as a neck support pillow. It also has a strong foam smell when you first get it, but that dissipates after several weeks. You could probably run it through the drier to air it out quicker if the smell is too bothersome.

First things first. This is not really meant for use as a pillow for anything other than a massage table. Secondly, this pillow is wonderful. It cradles your face like a cloud and allows for total relaxation of the neck muscles. It's very soft and holds its shape quite well. It's very tempting to use it without an additional cover as the sherpa covering is so soft and supple. It has 3 velcro strips on the bottom of the pillow to attach to most (if not all) massage table cradles.

The table I purchased had a very bad face cradle pillow that left your face numb after only a few minutes. This pillow has turned the only negative about my table into an absolute selling point. Highly recommended!

I was looking for a super-soft face cradle; this almost made it. But I ended up giving it away because I couldn't sink my face far enough into it to relieve my neck pain.

This is a very nice and exceptionally soft face pillow. I bought it to use on a massage table but I found that the shape does not fit my face very well. I have a long, thin face. The pillow is designed for someone with a small, round face. I'm disappointed because I think this pillow would have been excellent if it's design allowed it to fit my face. I would buy it again if they offered another, more compatible, shape.