Manetain mulberry silk is not genuine
I recently bought mulberry silk pillowcases + bonnets from both Hair Love India and Manetain and decided to do the burn test myself 👀🔥
Hair Love India actually included a separate sample fabric piece for testing along with a Silk Mark certificate, which already felt reassuring tbh. I did the burn test and it behaved EXACTLY like real silk should:
✨ smelled like burnt hair
✨ turned into black brittle ash
✨ ash crumbled easily
But with Manetain… I had to literally cut a tiny piece from the pillow cover itself because there was no sample provided 😭 And the result was completely different:
❌ fabric curled/melted
❌ plasticky chemical smell
❌ no soft ash left behind
There was also a VERY obvious difference in how the fabric felt. Hair Love India felt softer, richer, cooler and genuinely premium 🤍 The Manetain one felt much more synthetic in comparison even before the burn test.
For anyone wondering why the burn test works — real silk is a natural protein fiber (similar to hair), so when it burns it smells like burnt hair and turns to ash. Polyester/synthetic fabrics are basically plastic polymers, so they melt and smell chemical/plasticky instead.
This is the reference video I used for the test:
https://youtube.com/shorts/SM3H3klsHJI?si=IvqyR2uNx2J3RBZD
Honestly kinda disappointed because I ordered 2 pillow covers + hair bonnets from Manetain 🥲 while I only ordered 1 pillow cover + bonnet from Hair Love India initially.
After testing both, the quality difference felt SUPER clear to me. If you genuinely want real premium mulberry silk, Hair Love India definitely seems like the better choice from my experience 💯