Cooling blankets and cooling mattress pads both help hot sleepers but they work on different parts of the sleep environment. Here is how to choose the right one for your situation.
What a Cooling Blanket Does
A cooling blanket addresses the heat above your body, the layer that covers you. Most people trap the most heat through the top surface. The blanket draws that heat upward and outward rather than reflecting it back. You sleep under it.
What a Cooling Mattress Pad Does
A cooling mattress pad addresses the heat below your body, the surface you actually lie on. Most mattresses particularly foam and memory foam trap significant heat. A cooling mattress pad sits on top of the mattress and creates a cooler contact surface for your back, hips, and legs. You sleep on top of it.
Which Problem Is Bigger for You?
If you primarily feel overheated from above, you feel too hot under the covers and kick the blanket off repeatedly, a cooling blanket is the right first purchase.
If you primarily overheat from below, you wake up with a hot sweaty back or your mattress feels like it is radiating heat back at you, a cooling mattress pad addresses that directly.
For Maximum Impact: Both
Used together a cooling blanket and a cooling mattress pad address both surfaces simultaneously. The Stillwell Cloud for the top surface. See The Cloud here.
The Stillwell Cooling Mat for the bottom surface, lays directly on your mattress and you sleep on it. See The Cooling Mat here.