If your snoring is keeping your partner awake, or you are the one lying beside a snorer, the best anti-snore pillows could help make nights quieter.

I am a snorer myself and, as a journalist, my instinct was to investigate what actually causes the noise. Snoring happens when the tongue, mouth, throat or nasal airways relax and narrow during sleep. Air has less room to pass through, causing the surrounding tissues to vibrate. Sleeping on your back can make it worse because the tongue may move backwards and narrow the airway further.

This is where a pillow may help. Some encourage you to remain on your side, while wedges elevate the upper body and contoured designs support the head and neck without pushing the chin towards the chest.

As a home-products reviewer, I have slept on pillows of almost every shape, height and firmness.…