Cherry on Top

Many of our “Hot Cherry Lovers” have reported to us some very unusual ways that they use our pillows. Most people benefit from using them to stay warm in bed, to relieve muscle pain, and others like to use them cold, to relieve fever, headaches, and inflammation.

I thought you might like to hear of a few very unusual ways that Hot Cherry pillows are being used by our customers.

Perhaps you’ve read one of our reviews about the young mother with two screaming little boys that got into an argument and were inconsolable. She put a warm Hot Cherry pillow on her feet and he immediately stopped screaming and became unusually polite. “Thank you, Mommy”. The other boy asked for one too, and the fit was over. So calming kids drama and trauma with Hot Cherry pillows became a new Mommy’s little helper.

We received a photo from a mom whose toddler had cold feet and they came up with an ingenious way to attach eye pillows to her little one’s feet. Cute as a button, and they warmed up those tootsies fast!

One of our customers reports that she uses her Triple Square pillow as a tub backrest. Because our Hot Cherry pillows are completely washable, they can be used in the bathtub! “The cast iron tub is always so cold that I hate to lean back on it.” So while the tub is filling, she heats up a Hot Cherry pillow and lays it on the sloping back of the tub. Now leaning back is warm and the pits move into a shape that cradles her back in the warmth. That’s pretty ingenious, don’t you think?

But the most unusual use that we’ve heard of is using Hot Cherry pillows as flotation pillows in a swimming pool during Watsu treatments. If you’re not familiar with this type of healing modality, Watsu is a combination of water and massage (water-shiatsu) in98-degree water. Relaxing in a floating position with a Double Square Hot Cherry pillow under your head gives you just enough support to feel confident about relaxing and floating.

Most everyone knows we have sports injury pillows for sale. However, tying one around an aching rotator cuff was a new one for us. We got a photo from a customer showing how she used the ribbon from the packaging to secure the moist heat pillow to her upper arm. We love how creative our customers can be.

It was in a swimming pool that we realized that Hot Cherry pillows actually float! Perhaps because the pits are hollow, and the ultra suede fabric is so tightly woven, that Hot Cherry pillows have become an unofficial floatation device. Not that we recommend them to be used this way, in fact, we do not. (Our insurance company would surely object.) It is in fact, the most unusual use we’d come across.

If you have discovered an unusual use of Hot Cherry pillows that you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear from you. But remember, any other way than the recommended use and care that is written in our instructions, is done at your own risk. Be safe and take caution, and enjoy your Hot Cherry pillows your favorite way, everyday.

If you want to really warm the heart of your lover, you’ll give at least one Hot Cherry pillow for Valentine’s Day. They’re not just for the heart or tummy, how about those cold feet? If you run on the hot side, then chill your Hot Cherry pillows in the freezer, and enjoy a cool-down wherever you are. We can solve these problems and many more with our pillows that help everybody feel better.

Hot Cherry pillows for Valentine lovers are the best-kept secret under the covers!

And Hot Cherry pillows are not only for your lover, what about your mother, daughter or another? Show them all that you really care, by warming their hearts in an unusual way. They will surely remember you while they’re cuddling up to the warmth and coziness of Hot Cherry pillows, the Best Valentine’s Gift ever!

Whether your pain is acute, as in it just happened, or chronic because it’s been aching a long time, Hot Cherry pillows can soothe and relieve your pain in a matter of minutes. There’s a Hot Cherry pillow size that’s perfect for every part of the body, and we have six sizes to choose from.

Everyone knows that moist heat is good for sinus pain. Just heat up a Hot Cherry Eye Pillow and place it across eyes and the bridge of the nose, and the moist penetrating heat opens blocked passages and relieves the pain caused by this constriction. That same moist heat is known to relieve headaches and TMJ pain. And if your headache or fever is relieved with a cold compress, then get out that Hot Cherry eye pillow that you’ve kept in the freezer for immediate cooling relief.

Neck pain is probably the most common pain in modern times. Sleeping on a thick pillow, or tilting the head forward while reading, working on the computer, or texting, straightens out the natural curve of the cervical spine. Our new, chiropractor recommended, Cervical Neck Pillow is designed especially to address this common problem. Use it in bed, or when traveling, to begin the process of restoring the natural “banana curve” of the cervical neck. We have a video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U_N1dYTDVg that explains the “why and how” to use our cervical neck pillow while you sleep on your back. If you have chronic neck pain, try this specially designed pillow hot, cold or room temperature.

If your neck pain is a result of sitting with your shoulders hunched, you might try our small Neck Wrap. With two pounds of cherry pits soothing your shoulders, you will naturally relax them; letting them drop down to ease the tension. The weight helps you focus on your posture, and the warmth of penetrating moist heat relaxes tense muscles, relieving tightness between the neck and back. We go to the trouble of sewing the pits into three sections, so not all the pits gather at one end, but provide warm heat treatment at the back of the neck as well as the sides. Try our cherry pit neck wrap, one of our most popular products.

Lower back pain can be debilitating. Whether you’re standing over a worktable or working in the garden, overused muscles scream for relief. That’s when our Double Square pillow is perfect for relaxing sore, tight muscles due to strain and tension of everyday use. Just heat up a big double square pillow and lean back and relax. The moist penetrating heat relieves the tightness and brings instant “Ahhs”.

Hot Cherry pillows will keep delivering heat for a good twenty minutes or more. Then it’s good to get up, move around, and while you’re reheating your Hot Cherry, do a little stretching, then relax with your Hot Cherry some more. This routine is also great for any use of Hot Cherry pillows, because moist heat and movement are recommended for most kinds of pain, especially arthritis pain!

Women and girls who suffer from the monthly pain of menstruation, will find that the Hot Cherry Square pillow is the best little friend you can have. It fits perfectly in small microwaves, like they have in dorm rooms, and heats up quickly to relieve cramps by sending penetrating moist heat to relax muscles, and increase circulation and blood flow to tummy and back. With a Square pillow on the abdomen and a Double Square on the back, relief is sweet.

When sleeping with leg or foot pain, caused by either poor circulation or diagnosed as neuropathy, Hot Cherry pillows can be a godsend. Our Triple Square body pillow is perfect for placing under one or both legs. The 28” in length delivers that moist heat that increases circulation and eases aches and pains. Hot Cherry pillows can solve the problem of neuropathy pain by surrounding cold numb feet, increasing circulation thus relieving the pain, and allowing the neuropathy sufferer to get a good nights sleep.

And perhaps the worse pain of all is the pain in the heart from the loss of a loved one. The empty side of the bed is an awful reminder of the once present partner. Hot Cherry body pillows, Double or Triple can help warm and comfort, at a time when the heart yearns for something to hug. A Hot Cherry heart shaped pillow can be a wonder condolence gift.

Don’t just take our word for the relief and comfort that Hot Cherry pillows can provide. Read what our customers have said about how our pillows have relieved their aches and pains: 

Square                                                                                                                                             "I used the “Hot Cherry” pit pillow on my chest when I had an asthma attack. The moist penetrating heat comforted me and when I woke the next day, I had none of the symptoms I usually have after an attack. The tightness and soreness that usually keeps me in bed a couple extra hours the morning after an asthma attack seemed to be gone, and I was able to go about my normal day."                                                                                                                     Hannah, Asthma Sufferer

Double Square

“Last week I tweaked my back badly. 
I visited my chiropractor; soaked in the hot tub; used far-infrared heat in the sauna; applied creams; took pills & potions. I even had my sweetheart rub my back - but it was the moist heat of a Hot Cherry Therapeutic pillow on my lower back that provided the relief I craved! It eased the pain while giving comfort and healing. Amazing! True story - thanks Hot Cherry!”

Bridget F

Triple Square                                                                                                                                          

"My husband is a diabetic, and as a result of the disease, would often experience neuropathy of his big toe during the night which was extremely painful and would keep him from being able to sleep. We have discovered that by using a Hot Cherry therapeutic pillow which is warmed slightly in a microwave and placed down by his feet, he no longer experiences sleepless, painful nights."               Harriet K. RN

Cervical Neck Pillow

“This cherry pillow is the best solution to aiding a healing reverse curve in my neck. I religiously go to the chiropractor and use a Demerol. The cherry pillow smells wonderful and the moist heat is so therapeutic! The shape and the flexible nature of the cherry pits fits beautifully in the exact spot I need support. Most traditional pillows are just too thick and don't offer the support I need. This is great! I will use it again & again!”

JD Amazon customer

Neck Wrap

“I’m at my computer for long hours, and the red denim neck wrap is such a relief. It lowers my shoulders with the warmth and weight, and brings my attention to my posture. Great product.”   PA Prof

Eye Pillow                                                                                                                               

Great relief for dry eyes!

Brenin 

If  someone would’ve told me 10 years ago that making my fortune would involve a microwave, I’d have told them, “That’s impossible!”

I resisted even getting a microwave for many years until my teenaged son insisted that he would absolutely die without frozen burritos for an after-school snack. We all know that cooking food in a microwave destroys food nutritional value. The super high temperature that heats by sending microwaves into food, and kills bacteria in sponges in 20 seconds, can’t possibly be good for you.

But hold on. One of my first assistants in the business happened to be the granddaughter of the man who invented microwaves for the space industry. I took another look at the heating potential of the microwave and decided to swallow my pride and embrace the microwave for what it is, a tool to provide heat.

Whether you use your microwave for heating frozen burritos for starving teens, or just to clean sponges, it’s a fact that 90% of households have microwave ovens in their kitchens.

I started this business because I have cold feet. When my feet are cold, I can’t relax, and if I can’t relax, I can’t go to sleep. It’s that simple. So when I discovered a cherry pit pillow from England, I fell in love with the soothing comfort and instant heat that the cherry pitsprovide, when heated in a microwave oven for just a couple of minutes.

And yes, you can use other methods for warming them. Tradition has it that the Swiss foundry workers first used a cherry pit cushion to relieve their painful muscles. A friend of mine who grew up in Switzerland recalls her grandmother having a door on the side of her wood-burning stove where she kept sacks of cherry pits. After dinner, she would place them in the beds, under down comforters to keep the family warm on cold Swiss nights.

Cherry pit pillows have been known to be heated on hearths, radiators and the tops of wood-burning stoves, but we don’t advise that unless you’re willing to experiment at your own risk––or at the risk of scorching and burning the pillows.

However, if you’re a die-hard “will not buy a microwave” kind of person, we have come up with a safe plan to warm them in a conventional oven. It’s easy: preheat oven to 500 degrees. Place your Hot Cherry pillow in a glass baking dish. Open oven, position baking dish on the center rack, close door and turn off oven. You would never want to have the cloth pillow in an oven with an open flame, or electric element. While the oven is cooling down, the cherry pit pillow is heating up, approximately 10-15 minutes. You may have to experiment with the time and temperature because ovens have different insulation. So, you can heat Hot Cherry pillows in your conventional oven.

Some Hot Cherry customers who don’t want a microwave in their kitchen where they might be tempted to use them for food preparation, have their microwave ovens in the laundry room. Now, that’s a fresh idea!

If you’re considering buying a microwave, look into the flatbed type. (Email us if this interests you, we have a great source.) They have no turntable and the microwaves come from rotating beams below the surface. They were popular when microwaves first came out, then the style disappeared replaced by the rotating carousel. But for our purposes of only using the microwave for heating Hot Cherry pillows, the flatbed is the best. You don’t need to be careful about where you place the pillow. We do recommend the Amana RMS10DS Stainless Steel Commercial Microwave, a very simple version, just perfect for warming Hot Cherry pillows.

With regular turntable/carousel type microwave ovens, you must be sure that the pillow is in the center of the microwave. If they extend over the turntable, then the pillow could brush up against the wall and stop the rotation. Or it could cause the turntable to slip to the side. In either case, this prevents the turntable from rotating and the microwaves beam down on the same spot over and over. This can cause a burn hole in the fabric, or worse yet, a fire in the microwave! So please be careful when heating Hot Cherry pillows in microwave ovens with turntables.

Follow our instructions, adjust when needed, and enjoy the instant relaxation of the moist penetrating heat of Hot Cherry therapeutic pillows. It’s the best use of a microwave oven, ever!

Your customers, like you, are looking for that perfect gift to honor Mother on her special Day! Think like they do…. and offer them Hot Cherry® pillows–– the gift that every mother will love to get and use!

Baby Your MOTHER, like she babied YOU!

We all want our moms to be happy and comfortable. So what better gift to give Mom on her special day, but a Hot Cherry® pillow? With 6 sizes and 2 fabrics to choose from, you can give her the relaxation and comfort she deserves. And every time she uses it, she will be reminded of you!

A warm cozy Hot Cherry® pillow can warm her cold sheets and help Mom sleep all night long, with warm feet. Or If she’s a Hot Mamma, then a chilled Hot Cherry® pillow, can bring down body temperature. Keep one in the freezer for those pesky hot flashes.

Moms with arthritis have been told that moist heat relieves arthritis pain and eases chronic pain anywhere on the body. Give her comfort and relief with a Hot Cherry® pillow right where it hurts.

Younger Mammas may need relief from monthly abdominal pain and relaxing with a Hot Cherry® pillow is the perfect solution. Expecting moms need all the comfort and relaxation they can get. With the constant stretching of muscles in hips and lower back, a Hot Cherry pillow will bring relief to those tire aching muscles. Supporting the back, between the knees or around the neck or shoulders, Hot Cherry pillows can be her new best friend.

So if you could solve all of your favorite Mom’s discomfort with a warm bright red pillow, wouldn’t you want to give her the best pillow ever?
That would be our Hot Cherry® pillows in natural dyed 100% cotton denim, or our gift wrapped plush Maraschino ultra suede. All you need to do is decide which size is perfect for her.

So baby your mother, like she would have babied you, if only she had had a Hot Cherry® pillow when you were a baby!

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