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Pittsburgh Magazine 2018
Sheets Fit for a Real Sleeping Beauty
For this Pittsburgh-based company, beauty sleep is taking on a whole new meaning.
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Better bedding, workforce training and mamaRoos in our weekly tech news roundup In 2017, chemical engineer Allison Howard found a way to make bed sheets that would be kinder to a sleeper’s skin than traditional products. Her logic was simple but brilliant: Common bedding textiles like cotton absorb water from our skin. Night after night, our skin rubs and drags along the surface of those cotton sheets and pillowcases, losing moisture and quietly suffering from the friction. A former researcher at GE Advanced Materials and Bayer, Howard decided to create Auratek, a company that engineers new fabrics that integrate skin science principals. Read full...
WTAE Interviews Founder Allison Howard
We've all heard those so-called tricks for a better night's sleep, but one Pittsburgh company says the secret may actually be as simple as changing your sheets.
These bed sheets were created by the brilliant mind of an engineer focused on beauty sleep.
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