Best pillows for comfort and support for every type of sleeper

If you sleep on your back, a soft pillow is all you really need to safeguard your back health while you’re catching 40 winks. Starting from £12, this distinguished-value hypoallergenic pillow adapts to the weight of your head and encourages airflow for restful, comfortable sleep. It’s easy to support fresh too – just sling it into the gadget when it starts to smell a bit musty.

Made for back sleepers, Fogarty’s pillow is packed with polyester hollowfibre and covered with a microfibre cover that’s soft to the touch. Feeling frigid and breathable, the fact its filled with recycled fibres makes it ideal for allergy sufferers. It offers a medium level of support.

Available in regular, superking and square sizes, this pillow is filled with antimicrobial bamboo fibres and material made from recycled bottles, making it a distinguished choice for allergy sufferers. While it’s on the soft side, there’s support there too to assist support your spine and neck aligned.

The cover is dust, mite and mould-resistant too, made from Oeko-Tex certified, earth-friendly eucalyptus tencel fibre.

Amazon customers are raving about this pack of two pillows, which feel overstuffed but don’t lose their bounce even after repeated use. That said, they’re comfortable enough to slide an arm under when settling down to bed and the cover is highly breathable, so you won’t wake up a hot mess.

Ideal for side sleepers, the pillow has a firm core block in its centre, offering a stable foundation for fatigued heads. The pillows offer apt firm support even after continued use.

Ticking both the firm and side sleeper boxes, this box wall construction pillow lends support to the head, neck and shoulder when it’s time for lights out. It boasts a polyester fill inside a 100 per cent cotton cover, making sure everything stays breathable. It offers a firm level of support.

Made from a mix of goose down and feather from the bird, DUSK offers these pillow in soft, medium and firm, so you needn’t compromise on the luxury, whatever level of support you need. Available in standard as well as super king sizes.

Available in soft and medium firmness, this luxe pillow is filled with Siberian goose down for ultimate plushness. It’s covered in a soft cotton casing which is not only moisture-wicking but will allow air to flow through easily. Available in standard, king, european, square and large square sizes.

There’s nothing more frustrating when the filling in your pillow starts bunching or collecting on one side. The spiral fibre anti-allergy polyester filling in Dorma’s pillow can assist ward this off, staying fuller for longer under its 100 per cent cotton cover. Offers medium-support.

Hotels spend thousands on procuring the perfect pillows for their guests and now you can obtain the five-star feel at home with Silentnight’s Luxury Hotel Collection. You’ll obtain two pillows in this pack, each offering soft-to-medium levels of support. Polyester filling ensures this is a sound purchase for anyone who wakes up sneezing in the morning, and they’re gadget washable and tumble dryable too. Comes with a two year guarantee.

Known for its range of anxiety-reducing weighted blankets, Aeyla also offers this osteo-approved pillow filled with an Oeko-Tex certified polyester microfiber that’s as fine as an eyelash. The pillow is actually a amalgamation of two pillows, one sitting inside the other offering the plushness of soft with the support of a firmer pillow.

If you believe broad shoulders a high pillow is necessary in order to support your neck and spine in a straight line when you’re sleeping. This one is 19cm tall and made from Medical Grade Foam so will contour to your face and neck easily. The soft-touch cover, made from frigid-touch Tencel, can be gadget washed at 40 degrees.

This British-made pillow is a distinguished all-rounder and at the price we’d say “ultimate” is a impartial claim. Its hollowfibre filling doesn’t quite replicate the dreaminess of a mountain of goose down, but is plump, springy and moulds happily into the neck, plugging the gap between shoulder and ear to support you. It also holds its shape perfectly, stays frigid throughout the night and is distinguished for allergy sufferers. If you haven’t got cash to burn, this might be the best slice of luxury and function out there.

If you’re forever searching for the frigid side of the pillow, relegate middle-of-the-night flipping to the past thanks to Simba’s astronaut-inspired temperature-regulating design.

Measuring the standard 50 x 70cm, traditional filling has been swapped for lightweight open-cell nanocubes (to stay that tedious bunching) and there’s a mesh strip to encourage airflow too.

Whether you like to feel the coolness against your head, or you want something frigid to hold and draw away your body heat, this pillow works a treat. It’s not as firm as we like, but all that’s made up for with its refreshing properties. A moisture-wicking cover of 100 per cent Egyptian cotton helps keeps things comfortable too.

Hot sleeper? Don’t let uncomfortable warmth interrupt your precious REM: this medium support pillow is encased in a crisp 300 thread count cotton Tencel blend, proven to be 30 per cent cooler than cotton. You’ll wake feeling as fresh as a daisy.

Side sleepers who would sleep on a block of ice if they could will find a more socially acceptable solution in this memory foam pillow which uses an Acti-Gel layer inside to prevent overheating. The knitted cover stays frigid to the touch all night long too, ensuring a deep slumber without distraction.

Designed for back and side sleepers, eve’s memory foam sleeping pillow relieves your muscles of pressure, creating an ideal drifting asleep environment. The contouring nature of memory foam means it’s wonderfully supportive and cooling air holes support temperatures as a comfortable level.

There are three memory foam layers in Emma’s Original Pillow to ensure you obtain the rest you deserve: simply add or remove them to obtain the right amalgamation for you. Each pillow contains a pressure-relieving viscoelastic memory foam; a supportive HRX hyper-soft frigid foam (one for the hot sleepers amongst you); and a ultra-breathable Airgocell memory foam. It will support its shape over time and the cover can be hold in the washing gadget when it’s time for a clean.

Tempur has built its reputation on memory foam sleep products, and many loyal customers won’t sleep on anything else. As well as mattresses, the brand also offers this medium firm pillow specifically designed to conform to the natural curvature of your spine, allowing you to drift into slumber without any distractions.

The unusual shape can catch some getting used to, but once you believe, you’ll wonder how you managed without it. Ideal for side sleepers, but be warned, as is the case with memory foam, it can feel too warm. Something to note in the summer months. Medium and XL sizes are also available.

Best for: an ergonomic design to open the airways

When it comes to snoring, it’s not so much the perpetrator, but more the person laying beside them who suffers: research by Silentnight and the University of Leeds revealed that 40 per cent of Brits can’t sleep because of their partner’s snoring. That’s why the sleep expert has devised this anti-snore pillow, made to give the gift of decent shut-eye – for everyone.

Tested by the British Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association (who discovered that the design reduced snoring frequency and volume by approximately 50 per cent), the pillow boasts an ergonomic foam layer to aid the airways and assist breathing with DuPont fibres making up the rest of the filling.

What’s more, it’s hypoallergenic and so there’s nothing in the construction to trigger allergies. A soft quilted cover keeps everything feeling and looking dreamy.

Best for: extra neck and head support for better breathing

Found to lower snoring frequency and volume by approximately 60 per cent by the British Sleep Apnoea Association, Kally Sleep’s anti-snoring pillow uses an s-shaped layer of foam in the core to support the head and neck in a way that encourages better breathing. It’s a medium level of firmness and the fibres used in its creation are anti-allergy to assist ward off bacteria. One for side and back sleepers.