Q-Max 0.42 | Lab-tested cooling, report on this page
Free UK delivery and free UK returns
Elastic all the way round | Deep pockets that stay on
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See it on a real bed
Not a styled photoshoot. A made bed, a slept-in bed, and the corners in the morning.
Most cooling sheets are measured for one second. Q-Max records how cool a fabric feels the instant your skin touches it. Every decent fabric passes that test, which is why almost every brand prints the number and stops there.
The hour that matters is the fourth one. A fabric that only feels cold on contact stops doing anything once your body and the sheet have met in the middle. A fabric that keeps moving heat away carries on through the night.
And there is a second problem nobody mentions. Fabrics that move heat well are smooth, and smooth fabric slides. Read the two-star reviews on any cooling sheet and the same sentence comes back: it will not stay on the mattress. We kept the fabric and changed the fit instead.
1x fitted sheet with deep pockets and elastic all the way round
2x pillowcases in the same fabric
Available in Single, Double, King and Super King. No flat sheet, no duvet cover: this is the layer that actually touches you.
Machine wash at 30°C on a gentle cycle, on its own or with similar colours.
Tumble dry on low or line dry. Avoid high heat, it shortens the life of the elastic.
No bleach and no fabric softener. Softener coats the fibres, and a coated fibre moves less heat.
Sleep on it for ninety nights. Most cooling bedding gives you thirty, which means you buy in June and have to decide in July, before the nights that actually test it.
If you are not sleeping cooler, and if the corners do not stay on, send it back for a full refund. The returns label is already in the box.
Free UK delivery on every order, with tracking.
Processing: dispatched within 24 hours on working days.
Returns: free within the UK, ninety nights, label included. You will not be posting anything to America.
Velrest™ Cooling Sheet set 3 Piece£140.00 £69.95
★★★★★ 2,247+ reviews
Two people this keeps waking up
You are probably one of them. The fabric is the same in both cases, what changes is which part of the night it fixes.
If you've bought a cooling sheet before
Cool for ten minutes, then nothing. Sound familiar?
You get into bed and it feels lovely. Twenty minutes later it is the same temperature as you are, and by two in the morning you are turning the pillow over again. That is not a faulty sheet, that is what contact cooling does: it works once, then it is finished. Every fabric passes the first-second test, including the twenty pound ones. Ours measured Q-Max 0.42 at an accredited lab and the report is further down this page, but the number that matters to you is what happens at hour four.
Cool the second you get in
Still moving heat at hour four
Q-Max 0.42, measured not claimed
If one of you is hot and the other is cold
She's in a hoodie. You're on top of the duvet.
Most cooling bedding solves it for one of you and starts a different argument. Anything designed to chill makes the cold one colder, which is how couples end up with two duvets, or two rooms. This does not add cold. It moves heat away from whoever is producing it, so if your partner is not running hot, they will not feel anything happening at all. One sheet, two body temperatures, no negotiation at bedtime.
Moves heat, does not chill
The cold one stays comfortable
One bed again, not two duvets
THE SPECIAL BENEFITS
Three things you will notice, and one you will only notice in the morning
Cool on contact, still cool at hour four, and corners that are still on the mattress when you get up.
Cool the second you touch it
Q-Max 0.42, measured at an accredited lab
Still cool at hour four
Keeps moving heat instead of matching your temperature
Stays on the mattress
Elastic all the way round, not just four corners
Every fabric has a number. Most brands don't print theirs.
Q-Max measures how fast a fabric pulls heat off your skin. Higher is cooler.
Velrestâ„¢ Cooling Sheet Set
Q-Max 0.42
Silk
warmer
Bamboo
warmer
Cotton
warmest
OEKO-TEX® Standard 100
Safe on skin. Tested against 1,000+ harmful substances
SGS Tested
Cooling verified. Q-Max 0.42, report on this page
THE RESULTS
What hot sleepers told us
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said it was still cool in the second half of the night
0
said the fitted sheet stayed on the mattress all night
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said their partner never ended up too cold
WHY VELREST
Cool on contact. Cool at hour four. Still on the mattress.
Velrestâ„¢
Typical cooling sheets
Cotton / budget sets
Cool to the touch (Q-Max 0.42)
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Still cool in the second half of the night
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Elastic all the way round, not four corners
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Deep pockets, fits a mattress with a topper
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Lab report you can read before you buy
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Ninety nights to decide, not thirty
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Free UK delivery and free UK returns
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WHY VELREST
Not all cooling is created equal
VelrestStays cool, stays on
Ordinary cooling sheet setCool for a minute
Cool the second you touch it
Still cool four hours later
Corners still on in the morning
Elastic around the whole edge
A number you can check, not a word
HONESTLY
This isn't for everyone
We would rather sell you nothing than sell you the wrong thing. Read the left column honestly before you read the right one.
Skip this if...
You already sleep through the night without getting too warm.
You want the room cooled, not you. That is a job for air con, not a sheet.
You expect it to feel like an ice pack. It moves your heat away, it does not chill you.
You are after a full bedding set with a flat sheet and duvet cover. This is the fitted sheet and pillowcases only.
You are shopping for the cheapest sheet on the shelf. This is not that.
You want a sheet that chills you. This moves your heat away, which is a different thing.
This is for you if...
Your bed feels cool for ten minutes and then it is over.
You wake between two and four most nights and cannot work out why.
Your fitted sheet comes off the same corner every single morning.
You have already bought a cooling sheet once and it did not do what it said.
You have ended up with two duvets, or two rooms, and neither of you wanted that.
One of you sleeps hot and the other sleeps cold, and the duvet is on the floor by morning.
You have already tried a fan, a summer duvet and an open window, and you are still warm.
Recognise yourself on the right? Then you have ninety nights to find out, on us.
The same bed, three weeks apart
BeforeAfter
Q-Max 0.42
Measured at an accredited lab. Cotton sits around 0.11.
Cool at hour four
Keeps moving heat instead of matching your temperature.
Elastic all round
Holds the whole edge, not four corners.
Deep pockets
Fits a standard mattress with a topper on it.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps, and one of them is measuring
01
Measure your mattress
Ten seconds with a tape measure saves a return. Ours fits a standard mattress with a topper on it.
02
Make the swap
Fitted sheet and pillowcases. Keep the duvet you already have.
03
Sleep on it for ninety nights
Buy in June, decide in September. The returns label is in the box.
Real people. Real nights.
Rated 4.8 / 5 based on 1,186+ reviews
Verified buyer
Karen M., 8 hours ago
Still cool at 3am, which is new
I've had two cooling sheets before and both felt lovely for about ten minutes. This one is still cool when I turn over in the middle of the night. That's the whole difference.
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Hannah W., 2 weeks ago
Menopause and a hot husband
Between the two of us the bed was unbearable. This hasn't fixed everything, but the sheet is no longer part of the problem.
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David & Sam, 4 days ago
No more remaking the bed at 7am
The corner used to come off every single morning, always the same one. Three weeks in and it hasn't happened once. Whatever they've done with the elastic, it works.
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Marta S., 3 days ago
The second half of the night is the test
Anything feels cool when you first get in. This is the first one where four hours later still felt different.
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Nicola B., 2 days ago
One duvet again
We were on two separate duvets for three summers. We are back to one, and neither of us is negotiating at bedtime.
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Chloe M., 1 month ago
He's a thrasher, it stays on
My husband turns over about forty times a night and used to drag the whole sheet with him. It hasn't moved.
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Yvonne P., 14 hours ago
I stopped waking at 3am
Not every night, I won't pretend. But the 3am thing used to be clockwork and now it's maybe once a week. I'll take that.
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Graham L., 5 days ago
Cheaper than the fan I bought twice
Two fans, a summer duvet and a cooling pillow later, I finally bought the thing that touches me all night. Should have started here.
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Raj P., 2 months ago
Better than the bamboo set it replaced
Bamboo was fine for the first hour. This is fine all night. Genuinely different, not just marketing.
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Ellen T., 2 months ago
The number actually means something
I looked up what Q-Max was before ordering because I was sceptical. Glad I did. It's the first time a bedding brand has given me something I could check rather than a word on a label.
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Priya R., 2 weeks ago
No air con, west-facing bedroom
Our room gets the sun until nine and turns into an oven. I didn't think a sheet could matter. It does. Not magic, but I'm not lying on a warm surface all night anymore.
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Marcus W., 7 months ago
Bought to prove my wife wrong
She'd been going on about cooling sheets for months. I ordered one to settle it. I was wrong, and I've had to say so out loud, repeatedly.
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Dan W., 1 week ago
Second set for the wash
Ordered a second one after the first week because washing day meant going back to the old sheet and I noticed immediately. Should have bought two from the start.
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Joan H., 1 year ago
A year on and still doing it
Bought last summer, used it through the winter too, and it's just gone back on for this one. No pilling, elastic still tight. That's the bit I was most worried about.
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Rebecca H., 3 weeks ago
Deep mattress with a topper
Ours is 28cm plus a topper and I've returned three sheets for not fitting. This one goes on properly with room to spare.
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Alan T., 2 months ago
Feels like a proper hotel sheet
I half expected something plasticky. It doesn't feel technical at all, just smooth and cool. My mother-in-law asked where it was from.
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Sophie K., 3 days ago
Bought after reading the two-star reviews
Every other cooling sheet had the same complaint about sliding off. This one addressed it in the description, which is why I risked it. It was the right call.
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Michael R., 6 weeks ago
Heatwave test passed
We had that run of nights above 20 last month. This is the first summer I haven't ended up on the sofa.
Amara O., 1 week ago
Soft, not slippery
I was worried cooling fabric would feel slick and cold in a horrible way. It doesn't. Smooth, but it grips the mattress.
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Tom B., 4 months ago
Washing hasn't ruined it
Ten or so washes now at 30 and it's the same as day one. That's more than I can say for the bamboo set it replaced.
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Peter S., 3 months ago
Ordered wrong size, sorted quickly
Entirely my fault, I ordered Double instead of King. Emailed late at night expecting nothing and had a reply by the morning. New one arrived two days later.
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Lucy F., 5 days ago
The pillowcases are the surprise
I bought it for the fitted sheet. The pillowcases are actually the bit I notice most, because that's where my face is.
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Ian D., 1 month ago
Sceptical, converted, slightly annoyed
Annoyed because I've spent years buying fans. This cost less than the last one and does more.
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Freya N., 2 days ago
Ninety nights sold it
I've been burned before so the trial length is what got me over the line. Didn't end up needing it, but that's why I ordered.
Callum J., 3 weeks ago
Student house, no ventilation
Top floor, single glazing, no airflow whatsoever. It's not a miracle but I'm sleeping through now.
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Beth A., 4 days ago
Corners still on in the morning
Sounds like nothing. It's the thing I notice every single day.
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Sarah L., 1 week ago
Bought a second in a different colour
One on the bed, one in the cupboard. That's the rotation sorted and I never go back to a warm sheet on wash day.
Neil C., 6 months ago
Works in winter too
I half expected to be freezing come October. It just regulates, it doesn't chill. Still on the bed.
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Owen T., 5 weeks ago
No pilling after a summer
Every cheap cooling sheet I've had went bobbly within a month. This one hasn't.
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Grace M., 2 weeks ago
Delivery was quick, packaging minimal
Ordered Tuesday, here Thursday, and not wrapped in six layers of plastic. Small thing, appreciated.
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Duncan F., 4 months ago
Guest room upgrade
Put it in the spare room and now guests ask about it. Ordered a second for ourselves, which is backwards, I know.
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Aisha K., 1 week ago
Hot sleeper, light sleeper
Both, unfortunately. The cooling means I wake up less, which means the light sleeping matters less. Knock-on effect I didn't anticipate.
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Robert H., 3 months ago
The elastic is the real feature
Everyone talks about the cooling. For me it's that I've stopped remaking the bed every morning.
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Emily V., 6 days ago
Took a week to appreciate
First night I thought it was fine but nothing special. By the end of the week I realised I hadn't woken up hot once.
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Simon G., 2 months ago
Ordered for my mum
She's 68 and has been complaining about the heat for years. She's now told the whole street about it.
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Nadia B., 1 month ago
Not an ice pack, and that's right
Some reviews expect it to feel freezing. It doesn't and shouldn't. It moves your heat away, which is a different thing and a better one.
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Craig M., 3 weeks ago
First unbroken night in ages
I can't remember the last time I slept eleven till seven. Did it twice this week.
Helen P., 2 days ago
Courier was slow, company wasn't
Took an extra two days, which was the delivery company not Velrest. They emailed me before I even chased them.
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Jamie R., 5 months ago
Second summer, same sheet
Bought it last July, used it all winter, back on now. No sagging elastic, no thinning. That's the test really.
Louise D., 1 week ago
Measured first, as instructed
They tell you to measure your mattress before ordering. I did, ordered the right size first time, no returns. More brands should say that.
Tested & certified:
WHAT SLEEPING COOL COSTS
You already spent it. Just not on one thing.
Almost nobody buys one solution. Most people buy four over two summers, and none of them are still working the following June.
OptionWhat it costsThe catch
Portable air conditioner£300 to £600A hose out of the window, roughly the noise of a hairdryer, and it has to sit in the room with you. Plus electricity every night it runs.
A fan, then a second fan£20 to £150Barely costs a thing to run. It also barely works: it moves warm air around instead of taking heat away from your body.
A cheap cooling sheet£15 to £25Cool for the first minute, then it matches your temperature. Read the two-star reviews before you buy one.
Velrest™ Cooling Sheet Set£69.95Nothing to install, nothing to plug in, nothing to run. A number you can check, and ninety nights to decide whether it holds up on your bed.
Prices based on typical UK retail, 2026. A portable air conditioner also uses electricity every night it runs.
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90NIGHTS
Buy in June. Decide in September.
Cool to the touch, hour after hour, still moving heat when you turn over at 3am, and corners that are still on the mattress in the morning. Most cooling bedding gives you thirty nights to check that, which means you decide before the nights that actually test it. Ours is ninety. Buy a bamboo or cotton set alongside it and sleep on both if you like. If theirs wins, send ours back for a full refund, even used, with the label already in the box.
01
Order today
Free UK delivery. Dispatched within 24 hours.
02
Sleep on it
Ninety nights, through a whole British summer.
03
Then decide
Not for you? Full refund. The returns label is already in the box.
WHO YOU'RE BUYING FROM
About us
It is 3am and you are still awake, and the bed is warmer than you are.
We started with that hour. Not with a product line, not with a colour range, just the question of why bedding that says cooling on the label stops working before midnight.
The answer turned out to be that the whole category measures the first second and nothing after it. So we had ours measured properly, put the report on the page, and gave you ninety nights instead of thirty to check whether the number means anything on your own mattress.
Yes, all of them do, including the twenty pound ones. Q-Max measures the instant your skin touches the fabric, and every decent fabric passes that test. The question is what it feels like at two in the morning, once your body and the sheet have met in the middle. That is a different property, and it is the one we tested for.
Ask any brand two things: what their Q-Max number is, and what happens at hour four. Most will answer the first and go quiet on the second. Ours is 0.42 and the report is on this page.
No, and this is the difference between cooling and regulating. A sheet that chills makes the cold one colder, which is why most cooling bedding solves it for one person and starts a different argument. This one does not add cold, it moves heat away from whoever is producing it. If your partner is not producing excess heat, they will not feel anything happening.
Bamboo and silk both feel pleasant when you first get in, and both sit well below us on Q-Max. They are breathable fabrics, which is not the same as fabrics that actively move heat away from you. The chart further up this page has the numbers side by side. The other difference is the fit: both are smooth enough to slide, and neither is usually cut with elastic all the way round.
That is the most common complaint in this whole category, and it is not bad luck: fabrics that move heat well are smooth, and smooth fabric slides. Most fitted sheets have elastic in the four corners only. Ours runs all the way round the edge, and the pockets are deep enough for a mattress with a topper on it.
The pockets are cut deep, which covers a standard mattress with a topper on it. Measure yours before you order anything, from us or anyone else. It takes ten seconds and saves a return.
No. It does not chill you, it moves your own heat away. If there is no heat to move, nothing happens. You will not end up colder than the room.
You have ninety nights, not thirty. Send it back for a full refund, free returns within the UK, and the label is already in the box.
