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Talking Textiles with Allison Howard from AURATEK Beth Klebacha interviews the founder and CEO, Allison Howard, discussing the story behind the idea for her product. 

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...

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.

This week, we meet Allison Howard, Founder & CEO of Auratek Textiles, who took her chemical engineering degree and unique observations on skincare and turned them into a long-term business endeavor that has spent years in development.