Pillows la carte

Sleeping comfort only the Dolce Vita hotels can offer: Choose your favourite pillow for your relaxing sleep from a choice of 15, 14 of which are certified organic and one special medicated pillow. Because sweet dreams are as much a part of Dolce Vita as the night is part of day...

Stone pine pillows

Size: 40x40 cm
This is what is inside: Stone pine shavings, millet, St. John’s wort
Stone pine has positive consequences on circulation, sleeping condition and vegetative regulation (scientifically proven). Stone pine guarantees a better night-time recuperation and reduced heart frequency. Has soothing effects on stress and helps hyperactive people. Also ideally suited for children.

Relaxation pillow

Size: 40x60 cm
This is what is inside: Sheep wool (pure fleece), nettles, roseleaves, camomile, lavender and hop flowers
The basis of this pillow is sheep wool. Sheep fleece wool is among the best filling materials for pillows. Through its regenerative capacity and self-cleaning power the wool absorbs, binds and neutralises the metabolic products emitted by the body whilst sleeping. Nettles, lavender and hops in particular help people with sleep disorders. In combination with camomile and rose leaves, this herbal mixture is remarkably pleasant and relaxing.

Love pillow

Size: 40x40 cm
This is what is inside: Horse hair, nettle seeds, fennel, rose leaves and patchouli
For centuries horsehair has been valued as an ideal upholstery material, especially the longer mane hair. Horsehair also has excellent hygroscopic characteristics, i.e. it can absorb body moisture very well and thus creates a pleasant cool and dry sleeping climate. The aphrodisiacal herb mixture makes this pillow incomparable!

Mediterranean Pillow

Size: 40x60 cm
This is what is inside: Kapok, lavender, rosemary, thyme, lemon grass and orange flowers
The kapok fibre is a completely naturally warming hollow fibre – ca. 80 % of the fiber volume is air. This confers the material an excellent isolating effect with a pronounced light weight. Both named characteristics make kapok suitable to a high measure for sensitive people and invalids who require a great deal of warmth, but have an allergic reaction to fleece wool. Works anti-bacterially, self cleaning, breathable and temperature balancing. The refreshing Mediterranean fragrances in this pillow allow you to awake much better refreshed and meet the day with great élan!

Spelt – Support Pillow

Size: 15x50 cm
This is what is inside: Spelt husks
Spelt, the ancient cereal of St. Hildegard of Bingen with its excellent health effects, is air-permeable, easy-care, pleasant, relaxing and naturally healthy! Helpful with tensions, especially in the areas of the head, nape and neck musculature, back pains, circulation and sleep disorders, lumbago and rheumatic ailments. Spelt husks are extremely durable and long lasting.

Spelt – Support Pillow

Size: 15x40 cm
This is what is inside: Spelt husks, doubly dusted and cleaned, contains 90 % silicic acid, which reacts beneficially through the skin into the inner organs
Spelt, the ancient cereal of St. Hildegard of Bingen with its excellent health effects, is air-permeable, easy-care, pleasant, relaxing and naturally healthy! As an ideal head support and for relief on the spine, superbly relaxing! Also usable as a wonderful leg support roll.

Cherrystone-Pillow

Size: 30x20 cm
This is what is inside: Cherrystones
Granny’s warm-water bottle applicator or cold compress as per age-old traditions, with a naturally gentle efficiency … because it does good! Warmth applications: Soothing for cramps, colic, aches or just for cold feet. Cold applications (cool in the refrigerator for ca. 60 minutes, then lay it on the affected part of the body): for strains, sprains and muscle injuries. In physiotherapeutic uses in the Hildegard medical tradition it has proven itself as a warmth or kneading pillow (motor activity).

Energetic-Pillow

Size: 25x40 cm
This is what is inside: Spelt husks, millet shells and buckwheat shells, oat straw, horsetail, peppermint
The energy-loaded combination of the three best cereal husks, fortified with the elementary power of oats and special herbs. Spelt, the ancient cereal of St. Hildegard of Bingen with its excellent health effects, is air-permeable, easy-care, pleasant, relaxing and naturally healthy. The millet shells are unbeatable in a high proportion of silicic acid, which reacts beneficially through the skin into the inner organs. Buckwheat is the medicinal herb of the year. It is considered as a vascular opener and beneficial for blood circulation. Oat straw has anti-inflammatory effects and helps with itchiness. Horsetail and mint fortify and support the physical and spiritual fitness!

Buckwheat Vein-Pillow

Size: 40x40x10 cm
This is what is inside: Buckwheat, doubly cleaned and dusted
Due to the high proportion of cell-protective factors, which have positive effects on the blood vessels, buckwheat was nominated as the medicinal herb of the year! Buckwheat promotes vascular opening, and favours blood circulation. This pillow helps especially with vein problems, circulatory disorders or tired legs. The wedge shape of the pillow positively supports the raising of the legs.

Relaxation Pillow

Size: 25x40 cm
This is what is inside: Melissa, hop cones, lavender, valerian (doubly cleaned and dusted),
Comfortably soft millet shells in a valuable combination with choice wild herbs provide for a focused and deep relaxation. This relaxation pillow is enriched with sleep-promoting wild herbs: Melissa, hop cones, lavender and a gentle trace of valerian. For people subjected to high demands and stress, for energy-oriented people or those with sleep disorders! Restores harmony, also well-suited for children. Wonderfully regenerative sleep is supported in a most natural manner, the ethereal. substances in the wild herbs unfold in the natural warmth of the bed and have sublimely relaxing effect here, promoting deep and continuing sleep.

Herb Sleep-Pillow

Size: 40x60 cm
This is what is inside: Spelt, Melissa, hops, lavender, St. John’s wort
For real sleepy-heads, or those that want to be so: Spelt, the ancient cereal of St. Hildegard of Bingen with its excellent effects on health, is air-permeable, easy-care and naturally healthy! Helpful with: head, nape and back aches, tooth, stomach and ear aches and especially with sleep disorders. Reinforced with the power of nature: wild herbs in a harmonic sleep-well mixture: Melissa, hops, lavender, St. John’s wort (Klamath weed). The natural bed warmth is sufficient to release the ethereal substances in the wild herbs during sleep. The low-key herb mixture is selected deliberately, as scientific studies show that only a delicate herbal supplement can have the desired calming effects. The laws of nature could bring humans back to the moderation that forms the basis of nature: to gentle effectiveness, even when people believe the herbs are barely perceptible, the power of nature has its laws. Less is more – "too much" brings about the opposite effect!

Grape seed – Pillow

Size: 30x20 cm
This is what is inside: Grape seeds
Agreeable natural warmth for: cramps, circulatory disorders, muscle tensions, stiff neck or rheumatic complaints. Cooling and pain-alleviating for migraines, head and tooth aches, sprains, bruises, haematomas, eye irritation (e.g. with hay-fever). Grape seeds are simply relaxing, they readily adapt to every movement and also gently encircle the most delicate body parts. They store the temperatures for an extremely long time and pass them directly on to the affected organ. Warmth releases and creates new energy! For the repression of inflammation and for pain therapy, cold works wonders: ca. 30 minutes in the refrigerator and the seeds store the cold reliably and effectively. Cold narrows the blood vessels and thus reduces the amount of painfully pulsating blood at the affected position.

Propolis Beeswax Pillow

Size: 30x20 cm
This is what is inside: Propolis Beeswax
Propolis Beeswax is amongst the most effective natural antibiotics. Propolis has not only an anti-bacterial, but also an anti-viral and antimycotic effect. In contrast to synthetic antibiotics such as penicillin, bacteria and viruses cannot develop a resistance to Propolis. In general, beeswax has fortifying and mildly stimulating effects on the whole organism, strengthens the heart and hinders arteriosclerosis and, above all, elevates the body’s own immune defences. Ensures beneficial rest and is an agreeable experience for many pollen- and allergy-afflicted persons!

Mountain Herb Pillow

Size: 40x30 cm
This is what is inside: Native mountain herbs such as arnica, St. John’s wort, camomile, marigold, cornflower, hay-flowers
The effects are pure, gentle and unadulterated. The herbs relieve skin surface ailments, are cooling, have wound-healing attributes, raise performance capacity, help with muscle regeneration, have refreshing and invigorating effects, possess a strong penetrative effect and improve blood circulation.

Best Pillow

Size: 40x40 cm
This is what is inside: Synthetic cold-foam polyurethane
Through its stable and anatomic pillow shape the Best Pillow helps with neck tensions and back pains, inter-vertebral disc problems, lumbago, migraine, snoring etc. This pillow is used in many clinics and physiotherapeutic practices. The correct handling is important. Important in side or back postures is having it in the correct position. This pillow takes a little getting used to, but, as a rule, after 4 or 5 days you won’t want to give it back….!