Originally posted by: clarkmo
reigle3,
Could you elaborate on the pillows? Carpenter makes a couple of different ones that I know of, including the Isotonic brand and the "Perfect Pillow" along with some hybrid foam combos. For a regular isotonic type with terry cloth cover that's a good price.
"The Perfect Pillow" should be the one that was once sold by Linens 'N Things about 6 months ago. They since discontinued it and now sell a "similar" pillow called
The Ultimate Pillow. This one looks almost exactly the same, but I checked it out and it's really different...in a bad way. Made by Sleep Innovations, this "Ultimate" pillow is not nearly as dense as Carpenter's "Perfect Pillow." While it does add an inner layer of mesh material (to protect the foam from moisture), it just doesn't feel very much like memory foam. If you squeese it, the foam bounces back very fast. It reminds me of the now discontinued "Classic" pillow made by Tempur-Pedic (which also lacked the "memory" effect).
If I'm not mistaken, "The Perfect Pillow" is now being sold at Bed Bath & Beyond under the name
Isoperfect Pillow. I checked it out and it's the same pillow as the perfect one...and still made by Carpenter of course. It sells for $59.99, so Mark's price of $45.00 seems to be a good deal.
The major difference with this pillow from other memory foam pillows is it's standard shape; it does not have contours.
I've been checking out eBay for some more memory foam pillows (still enjoying my Sharper Image one though!) and found some interesting things. There is one seller promoting a "Royal Touch" memory foam pillow. The picture looked interesting so I emailed him and asked for info from the tag on the pillow. He said it was made by "South Bay International." This is the same company that makes foam pillows for OSIM, a mall store. I decided to order it and sure enough, it's the same pillow as OSIM's. It's dense and feels pretty good. It almost reminds me of a contoured version of "The Perfect Pillow." At any rate, I like the blue cotton/poly cover (nice change from beige or white!). Besides it ended up being about around 30 bucks after shipping.
With my addiction in full force again, I also ordered a Memory Foam pillow from an ebayer that normally sells..get this..ink jet cartridges! They had 100 up for auction at $29.99, so I ordered one. And I was the only bidder. I'll report on it if anyone wants to know...once I receive it that is. The picture looks good, but who knows....it could be as bad as the "hard as a rock" one I got from the "As Seen On TV" Store.
Can you belive I work in IT and have nothing to do with Foam Production? I'm either in the wrong busy or crazy (or both!).