About Us

The mornings were
the worst part

Sleepsake started with Zoey, our founder, and a few years of the kind of neck and shoulder pain that most side sleepers eventually stop mentioning. Long hours at a desk, side sleeping every night, and a deep ache that would start the moment she lay down on her shoulder. By 2 or 3 in the morning she'd roll over to give it a break, and the other shoulder would start.

She could get through the day fine. Bedtime was the hard part. Some mornings she'd wake up with her arm completely numb. Other mornings it was just the same dull throb in the same spot, and she'd lie there working out whether it was even worth trying to go back to sleep.

She kept telling herself rest would help. It didn't.

The gap nobody
was treating

She tried what most people try. Physio twice a week. The chiropractor. A few rounds of remedial massage. A cortisone injection that helped for about six weeks. Anti-inflammatories before bed. A new mattress. And four pillows over a couple of years that all looked great in the photos and were back in the cupboard within a month.

A few thousand dollars in, the same thing kept nagging at her. Every appointment, every stretch, every treatment was aimed at the 16 hours she was awake. Nobody was thinking about the 8 hours she was lying down, with her full body weight pressing one shoulder into the mattress and quietly undoing whatever the physio had worked on that morning.

That's the gap Sleepsake started in. Not the luxury sleep aisle. The part of the day everyone else was leaving alone.

Every curve does a job

Cradles the head so it stops rolling

Holds the neck in a neutral line

Makes room for the shoulder

Keeps your spine aligned all night

Lady stretching in the morning after a good night's rest with Sleepsake pillows

We want you to wake up
fully recovered

We want the eight hours you spend asleep to actually work for your body instead of against it. We don't claim to cure anything and we're not a medical device. We're a small Australian team that builds pillows around what your shoulder is actually doing while you sleep, and we give you 100 nights to try them, because honestly, that's the only way you'll know if it works for you.