The Best Body Pillow, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

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Pillow Cube Side Cube for $66: This isn’t technically a assemblage pillow, but it's specifically designed for broadside sleepers (and I emotion it), truthful it’s included successful this list. This cuboid pillow is designed for nan broadside sleeper, and intends to thief pinch headaches and backmost and enarthrosis pains done its unsocial style and soft, yet structured, filling. It has a breathable, soft-and-stretchy quilted broadside lawsuit that's removable pinch a zipper, and nan AeroPluff foam halfway is comfy, regulating somesthesia to support you sleeping coolly. I tin slumber only connected my side, and 1 of nan problems I regularly person is simply a sore cervix from nan spread betwixt my enarthrosis and my head. This square, 90-degree-angled pillow perfectly fills that spread and sits astatine a manageable caput pillow size of 24 inches long, 12 inches wide, and 5 inches deep. The breathable screen and soft density moreover helped pinch receptor pressure.

Leacho Snoogle for $50: Though retired of banal astatine nan moment, this versatile assemblage pillow is marketed for pregnant group because of its versatility and belly, hip, and knee support. Due to its unsocial shape, it tin beryllium contorted into galore figures. With a removable screen made of a polyester/cotton blend and a polyester filling, this pillow is simply a batch much breathable than akin ample assemblage pillows connected nan list. Because of its unsocial style for galore positions, nan pillow isn’t overstuffed, and I recovered that nan capable tended to descend to nan little ft information of nan pillow erstwhile sleeping connected it. Overall, this pillow is breathable and highly customizable successful shape, though I would’ve preferred thing pinch a small much filling.

White Noise Memory Foam Body Pillow With Hypoallergenic Zippered Protector for $50: I perfectly emotion nan capable of this 50 x 14-inch pillow—the shredded foam is nan cleanable operation of building and softness. If it were wider, 20 aliases truthful inches alternatively than 14 inches, this pillow would beryllium perfect. But because I’m a side-only sleeper, I for illustration to clasp nan assemblage pillow and wrap my arms and legs astir it. Since it is truthful narrow, my knees sound together connected nan different side. I whitethorn beryllium capable to place nan flaw of its narrowness because nan pillow has a super-comfy fill, but I wouldn’t urge it for bigger group pinch longer limbs.

Eli & Elm Memory Foam Body Pillow for $130: In my home, we telephone this 1 “the 7 pillow” because … well, return a guess. This long, L/7-shaped pillow is marketed arsenic a gestation pillow, but it's awesome for anyone who sleeps connected their side. The short conception fits neatly nether your head, while nan agelong extremity tin scope down to fresh betwixt your legs. It comes pinch its ain civilization pillow case, which is great, because it's not for illustration you'll person a ton of spares successful this style successful your linen closet. —Eric Ravenscraft

Eli & Elm Side Sleeper for $116: The Eli & Elm Side Sleeper pillow is 1 of nan firmest pillows correct retired of nan container of immoderate we've tested. You tin region immoderate of nan excess capable if you want to trim that firmness, but if you're nan type of personification who likes emotion for illustration they're sleeping connected a very soft rock, this is nan pillow for you. It's not rather large capable for aggregate group to cuddle up with, for illustration our Honeydew pick, but for a azygous person, it's a awesome option. —Eric Ravenscraft

Bearaby Cuddler for $229: Bearaby is champion known for its weighted blankets, oculus masks, and stuffed animals, but it makes different slumber products for illustration heated pads, propulsion blankets, and nan assemblage pillow I tested, nan Cuddler. At 75 inches agelong and 8 inches successful diameter, pinch a filling of plant-based Melofoam, an all-natural foam made from rubber-tree sap, it's dissimilar immoderate different pillow capable I’ve slept on. It's heavier than a stuffed pillow but lighter than representation foam and has a rubbery, bouncy quality. Its springy fill, skinny body, and bonzer magnitude made it fresh awkwardly connected nan bed, but its bouncy value and expertise to conform into galore shapes whitethorn make this an charismatic prime for immoderate broadside sleepers.

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The Best Body Pillow Tested and Reviewed

Alwyn Home Butcher Fiber Plush Pillow for $56: This 90 x 19-inch pillow disappoints. It’s egregiously long, which could beryllium adjuvant for group who are taller aliases those who for illustration much all-around assemblage support. However, it conscionable doesn’t person capable stuffing to capable 90 inches. The batting wrong feels for illustration emblematic fluffy batting recovered successful homemade pillows, but it bunches passim nan pillow successful clumps, leaving gaps wherever nary filling reaches. These gaps often hap wherever your limbs rest, frankincense defeating nan intent of having a assemblage pillow for support. The pillow is only astir 2 inches heavy and didn’t look to ever outpouring up aft I took it retired of nan box. I had to shingle and knead nan fibre to thief make it much azygous passim nan wrong of nan pillow, but it did small to help.

As a broadside sleeper, you’ll want a pillow that’s agelong capable to supply support betwixt your arms and unit points for illustration betwixt nan knees. While firmness and softness are a matter of individual preference, you often want a assemblage pillow that strikes nan correct balance, to supply support without being excessively dense aliases patient for nan limbs that remainder underneath nan pillow. If you’re conscionable looking for a pillow to hug while you sleep, thing lighter and softer is best. But if you person associated aliases spinal pain, thing a spot much patient pinch much support is best. You’ll besides want to deliberation astir which pillow style will support which portion of your assemblage best, depending connected your needs. I’m a strict broadside sleeper, but I flip and move betwixt some sides, truthful pillows pinch support connected either broadside were tested too. I besides thin to curl into a much fetal position, truthful I wanted thing that had capable width to afloat wrap my legs and arms around.

While galore caput pillows and mattresses favour representation foam, depending connected nan foam's denseness, it tin consciousness excessively dense for a broadside sleeper whose limbs spell underneath nan pillow. Polyester aliases different synthetic filling is often nan astir plush and malleable but whitethorn not supply capable support. Many person a substance of some aliases shredded representation foam, which tin supply building while still being soft capable to descend into. This depends connected individual penchant and need, but capable type is thing to beryllium alert of erstwhile looking for nan cleanable side-sleeper assemblage pillow.

A modular assemblage pillow that's agelong capable to supply full-length support for nan assemblage is ideal, giving capable room to agelong retired aliases cuddle successful various positions. Body pillows successful U aliases C shapes tin supply much wide support and are perfect for pregnant group aliases those pinch backmost aliases limb issues, but tin often make nan sleeper tally basking because of each of nan surrounding material. But ultimately, nan preferred style is mostly limited connected what parts of nan assemblage you want astir supported successful nan side-sleeping position.

I tested (slept with) each of nan pillows for astatine slightest a week while sleeping, lounging, and sitting to spot really nan capable changed and moved complete time. I contorted them successful galore shapes, and measured really supported I felt successful different positions. I removed and added capable if I was able, and removed and washed covers to spot really they were affected by cleaning and tested nan differences pinch aliases without a cover.

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