You read the label on your shampoo. You have never read the one on your sheets.
Eight hours a night, against every inch of your skin. The least examined thing you own.
1,000,000+
sheets sold and counting
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Wrinkle-free. Stain-resistant. Anti-microbial. Permanently soft. None of those come from the weave. They come from finishes applied to the fabric at the very end of the line, after the hard part is done.
Which is why a lot of cheap bedding feels incredible in the packet and like a beach towel by week six. The softness was not the fabric. It was a coating, and coatings wash out.
And if you wake up itchy, if your skin flares and you have already blamed your moisturizer, your detergent, your pillow, the weather and your hormones, the fabric is the one variable you probably have not tested.
We are not making a medical claim. We are naming a variable you can remove.
The panel nobody prints
You would not buy a moisturizer that refused to say what was in it. Bedding gets away with exactly that, every day, in the one product that spends a third of your life pressed against your skin.
So here is ours, printed the way it would be if anyone made us. Every line is verifiable, and the ones that say none are the ones we are proudest of.
Bamboo Sheet Set
Amount per set
Free from
OEKO-TEX Standard 100 tests every component of the article against a list of substances known to be harmful to human health.
The label decoder
Every phrase below is a real claim printed on real bedding. None of them are lies. All of them are doing work you were not told about. Pick one.
Start here
Six claims. Six things happening to the fabric.
None of these phrases are regulated in the way you would assume. Most of them describe something added to the cloth rather than something true about it. Select one.
What that means
Wrinkle-free is a resin, cured onto the cloth.
Press-free cotton is treated with a cross-linking resin that holds the fibres in position so they cannot crease. It works, it is durable, and it is sitting against you all night.
Historically this chemistry released formaldehyde, which is why it is one of the substances Standard 100 sets limits on. We do not use a wrinkle-resist finish, which is exactly why our sheets crease and why we say so in the FAQ.
What that means
Anti-microbial usually means a biocide in the fabric.
Silver compounds or quaternary ammonium, added so the fabric resists odour. It is a pesticide-class chemistry doing a laundry job, and it leaves in the wash a little at a time.
Bamboo viscose is naturally resistant to dust mites and allergens as a property of the fibre. We add nothing on top of that, because there is nothing to add.
What that means
Stain-resistant is a coating that repels liquid.
Usually a fluorinated or silicone treatment that stops water soaking in. On a sheet that is a strange goal, because the entire job of bedding is to move your moisture away from you.
A sheet that repels liquid repels sweat. That is the mechanism working exactly backwards, and it is one reason treated bedding runs hot.
What that means
Softness you can feel in the packet is often applied.
Silicone softeners coat each fibre so a mediocre fabric passes the in-store hand test. They survive roughly six washes and then you meet the fabric you actually bought.
Ours has no softening finish. That is a harder thing to sell in a shop and a much easier thing to live with in year two.
What that means
Brilliant white is usually a dye that glows.
Optical brighteners are fluorescent compounds that absorb ultraviolet and re-emit blue, so the fabric reads whiter than it is. Nothing was cleaned. Your eyes were.
They are a common skin irritant for reactive skin, and they are on the Standard 100 list. Our white is the colour the fabric is.
What that means
Hypoallergenic is a marketing word with no legal definition.
No regulator sets a threshold for it in textiles, so any product can carry it and none of them have to prove anything. We use the word ourselves and it is nearly meaningless on its own.
What is not meaningless is a certification with a published substance list and an independent laboratory behind it. When a brand offers you the word and not the test, take the test.
OEKO-TEX Standard 100
We pay for the certification. What we cannot pay for is a pass. Every component goes to an independent laboratory and is tested against a list of substances known to be harmful to human health. By every component we mean the fabric, the sewing thread, and the dye. If one of them fails, the article does not get certified. There is no partial pass.
Eight hours a night, on fabric that passed the test at component level rather than on average.
A property of the fibre, not a treatment sprayed on top of it that leaves after six washes.
The softness is the fabric. It improves with washing instead of disappearing with it.
Certification applies to the specific product, so a brand cannot certify one line and imply it covers the rest.
Be careful with any brand that claims otherwise. What we can say is narrower than that. If something in your bed is irritating your skin, the fabric is one of the easiest variables to remove, and 100 nights is long enough for your skin to tell you whether it mattered.
The wash test
The softness you feel through the packaging is often a finish, applied to the fabric at the end of the line. It survives about six washes. What you are left with is whatever the fabric always was underneath, which is usually the reason it was cheap.
Ours has nothing on top of it to lose. The hand you feel in week one is the fiber itself, which is why our reviewers keep describing sheets that got better rather than worse.
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Softening, wrinkle-resist or antimicrobial finishes on the fabric
100+
Wash cycles without pilling or thinning, with reinforced double stitching
What buyers say
As a hot sleeper these sheets are the ones to keep you cool no doubt. I live in FL so imagine.
Lola G. / verified buyer
More than one in four of our reviewers bring up temperature without being asked to. Not one of them was prompted with the word cooling.
These are the softest sheets I’ve ever slept on. I can never sleep on anything else to the point I take decolure sheets with me when I travel.
Mallory P.
verified buyer
Been sleeping on my sheets for 2 weeks. My sleep numbers have improved. I am not as hot and the sheets are truly soft.
Garnetgems
Verified buyer
I'm getting some of the BEST sleep ever. These sheets are so luxurious they literally make you feel RICH.
Mweya
Verified buyer
We would rather lose the order than take it from someone these were never going to work for.
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Bamboo is a plant, but turning it into viscose is a chemical manufacturing process and we are not going to call the result organic. If that distinction matters to you, buy organic cotton or linen. Both are good, and both behave differently in a warm bed.
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Talk to a dermatologist before you rearrange your bedroom. Removing a suspected irritant is worth doing, but it is not a substitute for someone qualified looking at your skin.
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Press-free comes from a resin finish. We do not use one, which is the whole point of this page and also the reason these will crease. If a crease bothers you more than a finish does, buy the finish.
Skin does not tell you anything in a shop. It tells you after three weeks.
So take them home, wash them the way you actually wash things, and give your skin long enough to have an opinion. If it is not right, email support@decolure.com any time inside 100 nights. Prepaid label, full refund, no interrogation.
US orders placed on decolure.comOne trial return per product type per householdRefund issued within 10 business days of us receiving the returnYes, you can wash them first. We would prefer it.
That every component of the article, fabric and thread and dye, has been independently laboratory-tested against a list of substances known to be harmful to human health, and passed. It is tested at component level, so nothing slips through in the stitching or the dye.
They are designed for it. 100% viscose from bamboo, naturally resistant to allergens, no chemical softening finish, certified free from harmful chemicals and dyes. We cannot tell you how your skin will respond, and nobody honestly can, which is why you get 100 nights to find out at our risk.
Because the fibre is. Viscose from bamboo is spun long and smooth, and a sateen weave puts more of that surface against your skin. Finishes exist to make a rough fabric feel like a smooth one for as long as the customer is likely to be paying attention.
Machine wash cold or warm, tumble dry low, and skip the fabric softener. You do not need it, and it coats the fibres, which is the exact thing this whole page argues against.
17-inch pockets, so thick mattresses, memory foam and pillow tops are covered. Measure seam to seam first if you are near the limit.
Bamboo is a fast-growing plant. Turning it into viscose is a manufacturing process, and we are not going to dress that up. What we can tell you is that what came out the other end was tested for harmful substances and passed, which is the part that ends up against your skin.
