Rem-Fit Snow Pillow Review
Memory foam under a cooling cover Rem-Fit calls Nordic Chill. No phase change material, whatever the reviews say.
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Verdict
A correction first: this page used to describe the Snow as a phase change pillow, and Rem-Fit makes no such claim. What it actually sells is visco elastic memory foam under a cover it calls Nordic Chill, which it says dissipates body heat up to ten times faster than cotton. That is a conductive fabric over solid foam, which is the ordinary approach done reasonably well rather than the different mechanism the name suggests.
Buy it if
You want foam's consistent height with a cover that moves heat and moisture, at GBP 59.99.
Avoid it if
You want the coolest pillow available. A cover cannot fix solid foam, and a loose natural fill or a sprung core breathes better.
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| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Visco elastic memory foam under a “Nordic Chill” cover of 40 per cent polypropylene, 45 per cent polyester and 15 per cent Tencel |
| Mechanism | Conduction and wicking. Rem-Fit claims the fabric “dissipates body heat up to 10 times faster than cotton” and adds Re-ax fibres to move sweat. |
| Not phase change | Rem-Fit never claims phase change material, PCM or latent heat anywhere on the product page. Reviews that say otherwise, including this one until today, were wrong. |
| Limitation | A cover can only move heat that reaches it. The closed-cell foam underneath still holds what gets through. |
| Price and cover | GBP 59.99, with up to a 5 year guarantee and only if you use a pillow protector |
| Pillowcase | A polyester case sits between you and it and undoes most of the effect |
The scores
A competent cooling cover over ordinary foam, sold under a name that promises more.
GBP 59.99 for foam and a specified cover fabric is fair rather than cheap.
Solid visco foam, which is the one thing this construction does very well.
Good once set to a height that suits you.
A good conductive cover over foam that still holds heat. Better than plain foam, not exceptional.
None. A solid visco foam core arrives at one height and stays there.
The foam does not wash, and the 5 year guarantee is conditional on using a protector anyway.
A cover works on contact heat only. Turning the pillow over is doing much of the work.
What Rem-Fit actually claims
Cooling in bedding comes down to three mechanisms: a fabric that conducts heat away at the point of contact, an open structure that lets air move through, or a phase change material that absorbs heat by melting near skin temperature. Only the third is genuinely unusual, and it is the one the Snow does not use.
Rem-Fit’s specification is a cover it calls Nordic Chill, made of 40 per cent polypropylene, 45 per cent polyester and 15 per cent Tencel, with Re-ax fibres to wick sweat away, over a filling listed as visco elastic memory foam. Its claim is comparative and conductive: the fabric “dissipates body heat up to 10 times faster than cotton”. Phase change material, PCM and latent heat appear nowhere on the page.
So this is the first mechanism, not the third. Conduction at the surface is real and measurable, and it is also limited in a specific way: it moves the heat already touching the fabric and does nothing about the heat stored in the closed-cell foam underneath. That is why a cool-touch cover feels best in the first minutes and least by the small hours.
Worth saying why this matters beyond one pillow. A product named Snow, sold on cooling, invites reviewers to supply a mechanism the manufacturer never claimed. This page did exactly that. The specification Rem-Fit does publish is checkable, and it is the one to buy on.
Why a cover matters more on a pillow
A conductive cover is worth more on a pillow than anywhere else in bedding, and the reason is behavioural rather than technical.
On a mattress, the patch you are lying on warms up and stays warm, because you cannot move the mattress. A cool-touch cover gives you the first few minutes and then nothing until you shift position.
On a pillow, you turn it over. That puts an unwarmed face against your skin while the other side gives up its heat to the room. Most people do it several times a night without thinking about why, and it resets exactly the property a conductive fabric depends on.
So the Snow is a reasonable use of an ordinary mechanism rather than a poor use of a special one. What it cannot do is move heat out of the foam core, which is where a sprung or loose-fill pillow keeps its advantage.
And the pillowcase still decides most of it
You are not sleeping on the pillow. You are sleeping on a pillowcase, and a conductive cover only works on heat that reaches it.
A cheap polyester case is an insulating layer between your face and the cover fabric you paid for, and it holds moisture against the skin, which is what people actually experience as sleeping hot. On this pillow that is close to total: the Nordic Chill fabric is the whole cooling argument, and a case over it cancels most of it.
Cotton percale or lyocell costs a fraction of the pillow and will do more for how cool it feels than the difference between most pillow types. On this pillow specifically, a bad case wastes the most expensive component.
A correction worth making
Commonly repeated, and wrong
A cooling name is read as a cooling technology, and reviewers fill in the mechanism when the manufacturer does not. This pillow is the example: it is widely described, and was described here, as a phase change pillow, and Rem-Fit claims nothing of the kind. Its published specification is a conductive and wicking cover over visco elastic memory foam, with a comparative claim against cotton. Ask which of the three mechanisms a cooling product uses, and if the manufacturer does not say, nobody else knows either.
Should you buy it?
Yes at GBP 59.99 if you want foam's consistent height with a better cover than most foam pillows get. Buy it on the Nordic Chill fabric, which Rem-Fit specifies, rather than on a mechanism it never claimed.
Buy a cotton percale or lyocell pillowcase with it, because a polyester case sits between you and the only part of this pillow doing the cooling. And buy the pillow protector too: Rem-Fit makes the up to 5 year guarantee conditional on using one.
Where this sits
Other pages on this site that bear on the same decision.
- Rem-Fit 500 Pillow Review
- Rem-Fit Hybrid Pillow Review
- Pillow Reviews
- Best pillows UK
- Rem-Fit Discount Codes
- Rem-Fit Natural Mattress Review
Questions people ask
How does phase change material work?
It melts at a temperature close to skin temperature, and melting absorbs energy without the material getting hotter. That is genuinely different from a cool-touch coating, and it is measurable rather than a sensation.
Why does phase change material suit pillows?
Because its capacity is finite. Once melted it stops absorbing until it re-solidifies. On a mattress you cannot do anything about that. On a pillow you turn it over, which puts the unspent side against your face and resets the effect.