Set of 2 Standard Size SureGuard Pillow Protectors - 100% Waterproof, Bed Bug Proof, Hypoallergenic - Premium Zippered Cotton Terry Covers

I have had a trauma. My husband and son stayed at a Hilton Suites in Waco, TX and brought home bedbugs! It was the most disgusting experience of my life. Sparing you the heebie-jeebie details, I will simply convey how I KNOW SureGuard products work. When I found we had been invaded by these tick-related vermin, I pulled back the sheets and mattress cover (while screaming) down to the SureGuard mattress protector I had previously zipped onto our mattress.One of the features of SureGuard's mattress protector (yes, I know, this is a review for their pillow guards, but this demonstrates the quality of their product) are tabs that cover where the zipper meets the fabric. Not all mattress guards do that. THERE I found (oh! the perpetual bad flashbacks!) numerous bedbugs that were clustered, as if trying to get *beneath* the tab so that they might enter the mattress. Perhaps being under the tab made them feel more hidden (shudder-shudder). Whatever the reason, clearly they couldn't get past the tab-secure. Ha! Ha-ha! (yes, I've lost my mind a little over the infestation....)These PILLOW protectors also have a VERY secure zipper that closes snugly right up to the fabric - no space for the hateful creatures to penetrate. Furthermore, when I hired professionals to rid us of the nightmarish pests, they told me to buy *only* COTTON protectors, not plastic ones which will eventually rip. You've probably guessed by now that these babies are cotton.Buy SureGuard and sleep soundly. (It took me several months of jumping at every nighttime sensation on my skin, but I'm now sleeping again. SureGuard is part of the reason why).PS - If you have the enormous misfortune to bring home bed bugs (and this can happen at ANY hotel merely by putting your suitcase on the lobby floor or your room's carpet!), email me here and I'll tell you how to get rid of them....SureGuard is just *part* of the solution. But an essential one.

It doesn't breath at all. It literally creates a pocket of air around the pillow you have to deal with everytime you lay down. Super annoying and if I could return for a refund I would.'smooth' cotton feel is also a major overstated since its a smooth but course feeling material. Oh well, money down the drain.

I would rather be allergic to my old pillows than to sleep on this cover! A horrible Chemical smell even after washing. I returned them.

I put this on a feather pillow. Within a week a feather from inside the pillow was pushing out their the seam of the encasement. If this encasement couldn’t keep in a feather from a pillow i had NO confidence it could contain a bed bug 1/3 the size of a feather! I threw them out and bought different encasements.

Using these on my toddlers bed. Every day his pillow is damp. I got these so I wouldn’t have to wash the pillow every day. I’m still washing it every day. The pillow is just as wet as the pillow case.