You may be suffering from synthetic fibers, check your clothing and bedding for polyester. It has very poor characteristics for comfort and feeling hot and sweaty is a key characteristic. This isn’t some hippie shit, you’ll genuinely be much more comfortable in real non-plastic fibres and you’ll significantly reduce your microplastic generation and exposure as a direct byproduct.
After abandoning plastic fibers, I can’t even put on a polyester jumper in winter without overheating and getting sweaty. Real organic fibres are so much more comfortable and only marginally more expensive.
I second this. I’m almost always too hot and realized years ago that polyester fabrics made it worse. It’s one of the reasons my ex and I used different blankets - I used a 100% cotton sheet, but he was the type of person who’s usually cold, so he used fuzzy polyester blankets. He thought my blanket was too light, while I thought his was too hot.
The struggle to avoid polyester is the hardest part. I have a significant yarn collection for all my art projects, but over the past few years I’ve been trying to avoid polyesters (to avoid contributing to microplastics.) The only polyesters I bought since then were either made of recycled materials, or were special glow-in-the-dark kinds (because I haven’t found cotton or bamboo yarn with that feature yet.)
You may be suffering from synthetic fibers, check your clothing and bedding for polyester. It has very poor characteristics for comfort and feeling hot and sweaty is a key characteristic. This isn’t some hippie shit, you’ll genuinely be much more comfortable in real non-plastic fibres and you’ll significantly reduce your microplastic generation and exposure as a direct byproduct.
After abandoning plastic fibers, I can’t even put on a polyester jumper in winter without overheating and getting sweaty. Real organic fibres are so much more comfortable and only marginally more expensive.
I second this. I’m almost always too hot and realized years ago that polyester fabrics made it worse. It’s one of the reasons my ex and I used different blankets - I used a 100% cotton sheet, but he was the type of person who’s usually cold, so he used fuzzy polyester blankets. He thought my blanket was too light, while I thought his was too hot.
The struggle to avoid polyester is the hardest part. I have a significant yarn collection for all my art projects, but over the past few years I’ve been trying to avoid polyesters (to avoid contributing to microplastics.) The only polyesters I bought since then were either made of recycled materials, or were special glow-in-the-dark kinds (because I haven’t found cotton or bamboo yarn with that feature yet.)
Of synthetic, I can recommend rayon (that’s made from bamboo), also known as viscose. While it is synthetic, it breathes wonderfully.
I believe it also breaks down organically? So probably not one to be grouped with the plastic threads like nylon, acrylic, polyester