Natural filling duvet - not wool or feather

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Help! I'm after a new natural filling duvet but not sure what to go for. I've driven myself half mad today going round and round duvet review and testing sites 😵‍💫

If you have a duvet that has natural filling what do you have? Are you happy with it? Where did you get it from?

Please don't recommend wool or feather - I absolutely hate them both! 🤣

Thank you!!!

What is wrong with wool? Asking as I am also thinking about new duvets.

I had a lyocell duvet once and it was insanely heavy.

I'm not sure what other kinds of natural fillings you can get, besides feather or wool? Cat hair? Dog floof?

We have wool duvets and they're great: warm in winter, cool in summer.

Oh, wait - like bamboo or something like that?

My parents have a silk filled one. Don’t know anything about it or how much it cost but they love it. Might be worth a look at.

You could look at alpaca (thought still a type of wool), cotton or silk.

I am currently using a silk duvet and love it. Bought it from silkweb as I wanted the cover to be silk as well as the filling.

Kapok (fibres from the seed pods of the kapok tree).

Silk worms die in the production of silk so if that's your reason for looking at other things I'd say Bamboo

This. @keepcrackingon got there before me.

Silk ones are amazing, as as silk pillows.

Silk is no use for people looking for a plant-based alternative though.

Cotton - everytime! Can be used all through the year. Lovely!

Absolutely love my down duvet 100% goose down (no feathers) all seasons 2 duvets that can be used separately or together. Very warm when put together, extremely light weight, a little expensive but definitely worth the price.

I like my wool-filled one the best, but I also have a silk-filled one, and that's great too.

My DC have linen-filled summer duvets (like theduvetstore.co.uk/products/organic-linen-duvets/ but not from there, I definitely didn't spend anything like that).

I think I've also seen cotton-fill.

There are apparently hemp filled duvets

Thanks everyone, I'll take a look at all these suggestions. Thank you!

To the PP asking about wool - I have a wool duvet and I find it really thin and flimsy. It looks flat and miserable on my bed and I don't feel cocooned and snug when under it. I also find it really cold in winter. Plus, it's weirdly sized and too big for my duvet covers so I end up with lumps at the edges 😁

The reason I don't like feather duvets is that they go all flat over time. Do goose down ones do the same? Or do they stay plump? Thank you!

I've been through this on and off for years until I found this:

https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-synthetic-soft-touch-washable-3-in-1-duvet-13-5-tog-4-5-9-tog/p475290?

It’s not natural, but it’s the best duvet I’ve ever owned. Not flimsy at all and lays snugly around my body. The fact you have 2 duvets and can alter weight when it’s hot is fantastic.

I’ve had silk duvets before and they are also really lovely, but they are a real pain in the arse to launder / dry / maintain IME.

Just to answer your question. Down is a lot plumper than feathers, it does tend to flatten slightly but still looks nice and plump especially with the higher tog.

Down is completely different from feather or a feather/down mix. I certainly find mine fluff up very nicely.

I have two, a very thin summer one and a thicker warmer one. I have had them both for several years and both have been washed annually (the big one has to go to the launderette). They are stored in a vacuum pack when not in use.

I've got silk at the moment (two tog ratings) and I do love them and bought when I was dealing with night sweats

It too is like wool, in that is very thin and like wool reacts to your body temp, which is ok if your running hot but it can take a while to warm up if your cold (medical condition sometimes has me feeling cold now)

Prior to this I had Goose Down and feather, its still on OH's bed and is still fluffy. I launder it once a year and give it a go in the big laundrette dryers with some dryer balls which replump it