What are cooling blankets? Can they really help me sleep?

By Linda Grosser, Research Associate, Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre, University of South Australia
Luana Main, Associate Professor in Applied Sport Science, Deakin University

You wake up exhausted from yet another hot night of tossing and turning, with very little sleep.

So you might be tempted to buy a “cooling blanket” after reading rave reviews on social media. Or you might have read online articles with taglines such as:

Stop waking up in a puddle of sweat with our roundup of the best cooling blankets – including a top-rated option from Amazon that ‘actually works’.

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