How it works
Grounding, in plain words.
The earth’s surface carries a small negative charge. For most of history people touched it every day. Shoes, floors and beds took that away. Grounding puts the contact back: outdoors with bare feet, indoors with a conductive sheet, mat or band connected to the earth point of a socket.
What is earthing?
- What it is
- Skin contact with the earth's surface: bare feet on grass, sand or soil, or, indoors, a conductive sheet, mat or band connected to the earth point of a socket.
- Grounding or earthing?
- The same practice under two names. In electrical terms Australians and the British say earthing and Americans say grounding, and the practice took both.
- What the research says
- Small, early studies with real limits. The evidence page lists them with their sample sizes and where each one stops.
Outdoors
The free version.
Bare feet on a surface that conducts. Moisture helps, so mornings are good. Twenty minutes is a fair start. Expect it to feel like ordinary calm rather than anything dramatic, and often like nothing at all.
- Damp grass
- Wet sand
- Bare soil
- Unsealed concrete or stone
Sealed timber, vinyl, carpet and rubber soles break the contact. So does a bed. That is why the products exist.
Indoors
Setup, five minutes.
1Place itFitted sheet straight on the mattress. Flat sheet across the bed, under you. Mat on the floor where your feet go. Band on the inside of the wrist.
2Snap the cordThe cord clips to the tab at the corner of the sheet, the stud on the mat, or the stud on the band. 4.6 metres to the wall.
3Plug in the safety plugThe plug for your country is in the box. It only touches the earth point of the socket; no power is drawn and the switch can be off.
The test
Then check it with the pen.
Every grounding product ships with a tester pen. Touch it to the fabric with the cord connected and it lights. It is a conductivity check, not a health test, and it is the one measurement you can make yourself on night one. Watch Jade run it.
- OEKO-TEXSTANDARD 100SH025 231655Textiles
- RoHSComplianceCHHB26080392392Grounding sheets
- GOTSSupplier Scope CertificateUSB TEX-4007-GOTS-2609Mulberry silk
What you are lying on
Organic bamboo, 10% silver, tested for what touches your skin.
The silver thread runs through the weave, not over it, so the sheet stays conductive through washing. The fabric is tested by OEKO-TEX under Standard 100 and the grounding sheets are RoHS compliant. The numbers are on every product page.
What each certificate proves, and what it does notWhat the research says, and what it does not
What to expect
Your first 30 nights, honestly.
Some people notice something the first night. Many don't until week three. That's why you get 90 days to decide, not 14.
Setup takes five minutes. Run the meter test. Most people describe a slight tingle or nothing at all. Both are normal.
This is where customers most often describe deeper sleep and waking less. Keep your normal routine so you can tell.
Wash it (gentle cycle, mild detergent). Decide whether it's earned its place. You have 60 more nights either way.
What people ask about earthing.
Earthing, also called grounding, is direct skin contact with the earth's surface, or with a conductive product connected to the earth point of a power socket. Outdoors it means bare feet on grass, sand or soil; indoors it means a grounding sheet, mat or wristband.
Yes. They are two names for the same practice. Earthing is the word Australians and the British use for the electrical earth; grounding is the American word.
A cord runs from the sheet, mat or band to a safety plug. Only the earth pin of the plug is metal; the two power pins are plastic, so no power is drawn and the switch can stay off. A tester pen shows the connection.
The research is small and early: a handful of studies, mostly small samples, some without control groups. We list them with their limits on the evidence page and make no medical claims. Every grounding product comes with 90 days to decide on your own bed.
In this guide
How grounding works, and what the research says.
What a grounding product connects to, what the studies measured, and where they stop.
- The evidence, with its limits
Three studies, their sample sizes, and what we do not claim.
- Do grounding sheets work, and are they safe?
The sceptic's page: safety, studies and the pen test.
- How Do Grounding Sheets Work?
How a sheet connects to the earth point of a socket, step by step.
- Grounding vs Earthing: Is There a Difference?
Two names for the same idea, and whether they mean anything different.
- Earthing 101: How Do Grounding Products Actually Work?
How sheets, mats and wristbands all connect the same way.
- Grounding Sheets vs. Barefoot Walking: Which Works Better?
Bare feet outdoors and a sheet indoors: what each one involves.
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