Flax Seed Heating Cooling Pad
Relaxing Heating Cooling pads are reusable hot or cold weighted packs. Simply place in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time or place the pillow in a plastic bag for cold pack. Sets perfectly around the neck, on your eyes, or rest on your back or stomach. The chambers allows for even distribution of the flax seed.
Covers are made with cotton designer fabrics, which are removable to allow them to be washed. The muslin pouches are filled with flaxseed, (scented pillows are filled with a combination of dried lavender or chamomile, along with a few drops of essential oils).
Why Flax Seed?
- Whole flaxseed provides a gentle and moist heat.
- Flaxseeds are flower seeds, rather than grains, so they contain 30-40% oil which remains inside the seed to be warmed again and again. Other products lose their ability to retain heat as the water cooks out of them over time.
- When heated, flaxseed pillows retain half their heat after an hour.
- Flax never has that “cooked grain” smell other grain based products have when heated over and over again.
- The weight of flaxseed is gentle and comforting.
- Flaxseed pillows can also be chilled in the freezer to sooth fevers or slight inflammations, though they don’t get cold enough to provide the numbness needed for things like sprains and back injuries.
Aromatherapy Scents
You have your option of several scents. Lavender, Chamomile, Peppermint, Orange, Lemon Eucalyptus and Rose
Sizes: Unfilled
Eye Pillow: 4" x 8" approx
Small Neck Pillow: 4" x 20" approx
Medium Neck Pillow: 6" x 25" approx
Back/Stomach: 12" x 17" approx
CLEANING:
Covers can be removed for easy washing. Air Drying is recommended. To clean flax seed insert, spot clean with damp towel.
Heat and Cold Therapy
INSTRUCTIONS:
Heat Therapy:
Microwave in 30 second increments for hot therapy, checking the temperature to ensure ideal warmth. Please be careful to NOT OVERHEAT, the pillows will scorch and ruin if heated for too long. Allow plenty of room around your pillow while heating. Do not rest against the door or the walls of microwave. Flipping and rotating your pack allows for even heat distribution and avoids hot spots. Always be careful to check your heating pad so that it is not too hot before giving it to children. Please insure your microwave is clean when heating. Previous spills and oil residue may cause damage or burns to this product when heating. Always follow heating instructions carefully.
Cold Therapy:
Freeze for 30 minutes. Please store in plastic bag to while in freezer.