Spring Cleaning in the Bedroom: How to Keep Your Bed Clean

By Deluxe Sleep · Published on 28 July 2026

Spring Cleaning in the Bedroom: How to Keep Your Bed Clean

Spring is here – time for fresh air, more daylight, and a thorough fresh start at home! After the cozy winter months, it is high time to refresh the bedroom. With rising temperatures and the start of pollen season, good bed hygiene is especially important – not just for allergy sufferers. Treat your bed and mattress to a spring clean and create a thoroughly fresh sleep environment. Here you will learn how to keep your bed hygienically clean and what to pay particular attention to right now.

What Makes a Bed Hygienic?

We all continuously release warmth, moisture, and skin particles into our sleep environment – creating ideal conditions for fungi, mites, and bacteria. To keep your bed clean and hygienic nonetheless, you should care for it properly. Duvet and mattress as well as pillows, bed linen, and nightwear are all decisive for an ideal sleep climate. This overall system should be optimally matched to your individual needs regarding heat retention, breathability, and ventilation, and should be given sufficient care.

1. Air Out Your Bedroom Regularly

Keep a pleasantly cool room climate in your bedroom. This is usually between 16 and 18 degrees. Every day after getting up – for example, while having breakfast or showering – remember to air out not only your room but also your pillow, duvet, and mattress. Otherwise, the moisture from the night cannot escape. Down and feather duvets also need to be shaken out so the filling does not clump together or lose its resilience.

2. Turn Your Mattress

Most people know that a mattress should be turned from time to time. But why, exactly? If you lie on the same side of the mattress for a long time, body impressions form. In those spots, the material's support is limited – so anyone who changes position during sleep is then no longer optimally supported. Over time, this can lead to back pain and headaches. Regularly turning the mattress also helps it dry out properly. It is therefore worth turning the mattress every time you put on fresh bedding. Speaking of mattresses: anyone wanting to clean their mattress can wash the mattress cover. It is best to check the wash instructions to see how often and at what temperature the cover can be washed. All BICO mattress covers can be washed at 60° and fit easily into a household washing machine. A 60° wash kills the mites, bacteria, and viruses in the mattress cover.

3. Choose Your Duvet and Bed Linen Wisely

Not all duvets are the same: choose a duvet that ensures optimal climate regulation, so you neither sweat nor freeze, and that is tailored to your individual needs. There are, for example, fillings with different properties and various warmth levels. Depending on individual preference, dedicated summer or winter duvets, or an all-season duvet, may suit you best. As for bed linen, you should wash it every two weeks – more often if you sweat heavily and in summer. When buying bed linen, make sure it feels subjectively pleasant to you and is air-permeable.

4. Sleepwear: Breathable and Fresh

From a bed-hygiene perspective, it pays to wear sleepwear. This prevents sweat from being absorbed by the bed linen and helps your bed stay fresh for longer. The prerequisite is that you change your sleepwear regularly, i.e. twice a week, and choose the right material for summer and winter: in the warmer season, fabrics such as linen or silk are recommended, as they are breathable, while on colder days flannel or wool can provide warmth.

Mattress Tips for Allergy Sufferers

Anyone who suffers from a dust mite allergy has a particularly high need for bed care, because mattresses are where the most house dust mites hide. This is because mattresses offer ideal conditions for mites: a warm, humid climate and dead skin cells that serve as food for the mites. People with mite allergies, incidentally, react allergically to mite droppings – the irritant-causing dust that is inhaled through the airways.

So that allergy sufferers can still sleep well, there are products that can help: special protective covers (so-called encasings) have a tightly woven structure that keeps dead skin cells out of the mattress, depriving the mites of their food so that they eventually die. Optimal encasings are breathable and permeable to water vapor, so that sweat can be easily carried away. When buying a protective cover, make sure it is washable. You can additionally treat the encasing with a mite spray. By the way, all BICO mattresses are available with an anti-allergy mattress cover.

Allergy sufferers should also avoid dust traps such as textile materials, open shelves, and houseplants, leave their clothing in a different room in the evening, and vacuum and damp-mop the bedroom regularly. Avoid humidifiers – as these create ideal living conditions for mites.

We should therefore all maintain optimal bed hygiene not only during spring cleaning but over the longer term. Wash and care for your mattress cover, duvet, bed linen, and pajamas regularly – and enjoy more restful sleep.

Source: This article is based on a piece from the BICO sleep blog (bico.ch). The research findings, product developments, and test results mentioned in it come from BICO or from the respective third parties named.