Anti-stress cushion with balls inside

You can quickly relieve stress by taking a shower or eating a chocolate bar. But during nervous work, chocolates will be deposited on your figure, and you will not accept a shower at all in the office. Replace sweets and water treatments can anti-stress pillow. This is a fashionable and useful thing, it decorates the interior and protects the owner's nerves. Her case contains synthetic or natural fillers.

Synthetic filler (polystyrene, polystyrene, silicone) is unpretentious in care, both adults and children will crumple it with pleasure.

Natural (wool, buckwheat husk, bamboo, grass) - less retains its properties, in the care requires a special relationship. The first are more popular.

The subject of the interior, a toy and a wrinkle for stress relief, can be described as an anti-stress pillow with balls inside. Most often, the granules are made of foamed polystyrene, durable and lightweight. The diameter of the balls is about 1 mm, so it feels as if a thick mass is slightly rustling under the fingers and smoothly rolling. Believe the reviews, the feeling is pleasant even for adults, so this little thing you want to squeeze endlessly, stress and a bad mood passes quickly!

What is an anti-stress pillow

A cushion against stress can look like a regular rectangle, a semicircle under the neck, a roller, or a funny soft toy.

Soft toys at the peak of popularity, they give both adults and children. Most often, the toy is bright, of unusual shape, with cheerful inscriptions, it will easily become a highlight of the interior.

It is useful to sleep on such a thing, because small particles inside completely take the form of a body. Although it is well wrinkled, it returns perfectly to its original state. The smooth fabric from which to sew such products is called biflex - durable, well-stretched, non-burnable knit.

How to wash a pillow

Knitted antidepressant will appeal to all households, so from time to time it will need to be washed.

Washing Tips

• If you use often, clean the anti-stress pillow at least once every few months.
• Freshly stain the fabric with a sponge moistened with water and detergent.
• When machine washable, choose the delicate mode, the minimum number of spin turns, add baby powder or detergent.
• You can brush your hands, but not squeeze. Rinse, allow water to drain, then dry on a towel in a horizontal position.
• In no case do not use the temperature above 40 degrees and bleach.
• The product can be cleaned without a pillowcase, it can be opened at the side and the filler is pulled out; some of them have a lock for protection against accidental unzipping.

  Well, if the pillow has a secret seam with a zipper, which will allow to dry the filler, ventilate, or change

• Wash the filler in soapy water, rinse well.
• Ripping around a pillow with balls inside, be ready to escape the tiny electrifying contents and prepare a container for it.
• If the granules are stuck together, whisk the toy. If necessary, you can buy new granules and fill them with a cover.

Child safety

Due to the small weight and cute little animals, in the form of which the product is made, they have become a popular gift for children. A toy with polystyrene contents is safe for the child, as the filler is hypoallergenic and non-flammable, does not absorb moisture, does not dissolve in water, is cold-resistant.

Thanks to its content through a fabric similar to plasticine, it is an excellent means of developing fine motor skills of a baby. Balls do not collect dust and infection, do not burst and do not climb from the inside. But it is necessary to ensure that the child does not eat the contents, if you smash a toy. The surface of the product is also safe, because elastic sports suits are sewn from such fabric.

Therapeutic effect of anti-stress pillows

The benefits and therapeutic effects of anti-stress pillows are not exaggerated. The product, even made in the form of a toy, can be used for sleeping, it takes the outlines of the body and, by stimulating the nerve endings, will help to relax.

It can be put under the neck, lower back as a soft massager. The effect of anti-stress is achieved by crushing the case with the granules by hand. Millions of nerve endings are at the fingertips of a person, so touching the soft mouth is so pleasant for the nerves. Moreover, their rustling, quiet crunching calms a person, forcing him to listen to his feelings and, as a result, calm down. Knitted knitwear for covers with carbon fiber threads, they have a positive effect on the blood circulation of the brain, normalize blood pressure. Pregnant women can put a product of an oblong type under the stomach, lying on its side, under the legs to reduce swelling.

Where to find and buy anti-stress pillow

Monkeys can be found in almost any gift shop in Moscow and St. Petersburg, in the departments of children's toys. Typically, these products have an original design, pleasant to the touch, so they are often presented as a gift, because they will please any person. Manufacturers offer different shapes, colors and sizes. Children can be given in the form of a flower, fish, cars, ball, animal, adults more practical: rollers, semi-circular in shape under the neck for traveling. Find a large range and you can buy in online stores. On average, a small product costs 300 rubles, a large one is about 1000 rubles. The price is affected by design complexity and size.

On the cover with polystyrene content is put on a pillowcase, on which you can order printing of the original lettering, photo or logo.Also, it facilitates the care of the product, it is enough to remove the pillow case for washing.

How to choose a pillow from stress

1. Give priority to the reliability of the seams, the life of the product depends on it. Even a small hole will cause the balls to pour out.
2. Form and design. Monks with photo printing fit harmoniously into any interior, however, getting a gift, consider the taste of the future owner. The driver of the car is useful pillow geometric shape, the young lady would be nice to get a heart or flowers. Most often, the product is decorated only with an image, without additional elements, so that nothing would disturb the nerves.
3. For sleep, it is better to buy a large massager. It is unlikely that you will often sleep on it, but sometimes a head and neck massage is useful.

Anti-stress pillows do it yourself

Massager for stress can be made by hand.

For this you will need

• Stretch fabric. Look for as much as possible lycra, elastane or nylon in the composition, this is a guarantee that the material will stretch in any direction and not deform.

  Pieces of cloth and felt for sewing pillows

• Sewing machine, thread, needle.
• Filling. You can buy foamed polystyrene in online stores or use any small grits. Polystyrene costs about 100 rubles for 30 liters, this volume will be enough for several toys. Groats will give weight.
• Safety pins, chalk.
• Decor: paints on fabric or eyes cut out from scraps, animal's nose, if you make an animal.

Determine what shape you want to put on your face. The easiest way to make geometric shapes is a circle, a rectangle, a triangle, they will make an excellent smiley, SpongeBob, a bird from the computer game “Angry Birds”. Also obtained simple patterns of any animals in the form of a circle or a square with ears. In general, show imagination, attract a child! Children enjoy playing with bright and soft little animals.

Get to work.

• Start by making a drawing on paper, cut this drawing, and transfer it to the fabric with chalk. Do not forget that you need to cut 2 symmetrical sides of the fabric, retreating a couple of centimeters from the edge.

  We trace the pattern on the seamy side of the fabric for the pillow case and for the napernik, leave the seam allowances, cut out the owl parts from both types of fabric

• Decorate the front side of one pattern. Decorate with colors on the fabric or sew buttons, sequins, eyes, nose and so on.

  We cut out the eyes and nose from felt, we put it on and sew it in a zigzag

  Eyelashes are made of artificial leather and glued to the eyes.

• Attach the patterns face down and pin them with safety pins. Sew the fabric along the chalked line, receding a couple of centimeters from the edge and leaving a small hole.

  Treat the lower section of the fabric with an overlock or a zigzag stitch, fold the edges to the wrong side and attach one part of the zipper, covering the teeth in half, then the other

  Hidden clasp sewn into the pillow

  We join the details with a seam straight line, folding them with the front sides inside

• Turn and fill the prepared polystyrene or grits.

  We turn on the front side

  We sew the feet of our owl, we fold the edge, and again run the line

The thing, in the tailoring of which the child himself took part, will always evoke pleasant memories.

A pouch stuffed with granules is not a treatment for nerve conditions, but it can help you relax and distract a little. In addition, the soft toys from stress can not be watched without a smile, they cheer up one of their own views.

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