The cover goes around your own duvet and earths you from above, while you lie underneath. Below you will find how to connect it, how to wash it, and what to do if you have no earthed socket. This manual covers both sizes.
Connected in five steps
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Take the duvet cover out of the packaging. The earthing cable with plug is packed loose alongside it.
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Put your own duvet inside and close the zip. The cover has to fit your duvet, so go by the size of the duvet and not of your mattress.
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Click the earthing cable onto the press stud in the corner of the cover. You will feel it lock into place.
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Put the plug into an earthed socket. Only the earth contact is used, never the live wire. This works on earthed sockets across Europe.
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Get in underneath. The inside makes contact with your skin while you lie there. Bare arms and shoulders do more than long-sleeved pyjamas.
Thirty to forty minutes a day is enough. One night of sleep goes well past that, and more does no harm.
Good to know
An ordinary cover may go over the top. Choose cotton, linen or wool. Natural fabric takes up moisture, and through that moisture the contact with your skin stays. Polyester and other synthetics do the opposite: they insulate, and then nothing happens at all. Handy if the earthing cover feels cool, or if you want your own pattern on show.
From above and below works best. If you wear long-sleeved pyjamas, the contact from above is small. A sheet or fitted sheet underneath makes up for that. With the splitter both hang on the same socket.
Building up slowly is fine. If you are sensitive, you may feel a light tingling the first few nights or sleep differently than usual. Start with an hour or two, or put an extra layer in between at first and take it away later. There is more about this in what you can feel and expect and in earthing for beginners.
Washing and care
The cover is 95% organic cotton and 5% conductive silver thread. Wash it at 40 degrees in the machine, as often as you like. If there are stains, an occasional wash at 60 is fine.
Use no bleach and no fabric softener. They settle on the silver thread and make it less conductive, so the earthing works less well.
Dry it on the line if you can. A tumble dryer works on the lowest setting, but on the line the cover lasts longer.
No earthed socket?
An earthed socket has metal pins at the top and bottom as well as the two holes. If you cannot see those, the socket is not earthed.
If there is none in the house, there are two other ways. With the earthing pin you push the earth point into the ground outside and bring it in on fifteen metres of cable. With the alligator clip you clamp it onto an unpainted heating pipe or radiator. Both are explained in earthing without an earthed socket.
If the earthed socket is a room away, the fifteen metre extension cable covers that distance.
