The small blanket (157 x 127 cm) earths you away from your bed: on the sofa, over your legs while you read, or wherever you happen to sit. Below you will find how to connect it, which side should face you, how to wash it, and what to do if you have no earthed socket.
Connected in five steps
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Take the blanket out of the packaging. The earthing cable with plug is packed loose alongside it.
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Put the blanket where you want to use it: on the sofa, on your bed or over a chair.
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Turn the white side towards you. That is where the silver thread sits, recognisable by the fine check pattern. The grey side makes no contact.
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Click the earthing cable onto the press stud in the corner of the blanket. 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.
Thirty to forty minutes a day is enough. An evening on the sofa goes well past that, and more does no harm.
Good to know
Bare skin works best. Hands, forearms or bare feet on the white side do more than a blanket over your clothes. If the fabric feels cool, an ordinary blanket or sheet may go over the top, as long as it is cotton, linen or wool. Natural fabric takes up moisture, and through that moisture the contact stays. Polyester and other synthetics insulate instead, and then nothing happens at all.
Fine for the night too, but there is better. A blanket slides away when you turn. If you want contact all night, a sheet, fitted sheet or sleeping mat is more practical, because those stay put.
Building up slowly is fine. If you are sensitive, you may feel a light tingling the first few times. Start with half an hour, or put a thin 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 blanket is organic cotton and polyester, with 2% conductive silver thread on the white side. 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 blanket 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.
