Why Organic?
I am asked often “Why use organic products?” To me, it is a simple question to answer “Because I care about what harmful things I am putting into and on my child’s body.” There are many benefits to organics some which include:
1. Why use Organics?
Using organic or earth friendly alternatives is a healthier option. It’s chemical-free whichk is better for your skin and better to breath in, especially for people with allergies and asthma. Additionally, organic products don’t use harmful chemicals, which cause pollution so the products are more sustainable. The benefits of organic items are in preserving the environment as well as our health.
2. Organic Cotton for my Baby?
Organic cotton is less processed than conventional cotton so it maintains more of the natural softness and strength. Making it a superior fabric in comfort but also endurable in its wear and wash adventures.
3.2.3. What is Organic?
Organic is used to describe fibers (cotton) or foods that are grown without the use of fertilizers, pesticides or GM (genetically modified) plants on land that has been free of chemicals for al least three years. It is estimated that 20% of all cotton in the world is GM. Organic cotton is the only cotton that can be guaranteed GM free due to the traceability of its origins and global organic standards. The largest developer of GM cotton (and most seeds) is Monsanto.
BENEFITS of Organic Cotton:
- Manual farming and organic practices have a lower carbon footprint as the entire process consumes less fuel and energy and emits fewer greenhouses gases.
· Not from genetically modified cottonseed.
· Grown with natural rather than synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, no chemical defoliants used eco- friendly processing that does not compromise workers’ health and helps reduce water and electric use and toxic runoff, e.g. non-chlorine bleach, silicon-free softeners and low impact, azo-free dyes.
· Strict testing ensures the absence of contaminants like nickel, lead, formaldehyde, amines and pesticides and heavy metals
· People with allergies and chemical sensitivity expectably benefit from organic cotton clothing, as conventional cotton may retain harmful toxic residues. Even if you don’t have sensitive skin, organic cotton will just feel better against your skin.
3. What is in cotton?
Cotton is the most chemically-sprayed crop in the world. Of the 90 million acres of land devoted to growing cotton world wide, 600 thousand tons of pesticides and chemical fertilizers are applied to cotton fields each season. That is 25% of all pesticides used on the planet.
4. Is “green” or “Natural” cotton the same as organic cotton?
“Green” cotton usually refers to cotton that is not bleached, dyed or chemically treated during processing. However, it is grown conventionally, and falls short of organic. Green is not regulated or certified and doesn't always have a consistent meaning.
3. 5. What is wrong with Synthetic clothing?
All synthetic fabrics are manufactured from petroleum derivatives. Though generally cheap the actual cost of acquiring, transporting and manufacturing fabrics is seldom assessed. The amount of pollution, water and energy involved in manufacturing synthetics will continue to place a great burden on our well-being and the environment at least until clean energy sources are used for production. Clothing made of polyester and acrylic may emit toxic vapors especially when new and a tendency towards static electricity and trap perspiration and contain chemicals that are breathed or absorbed through the skin.
6. Conventional cotton clothing:
Each t-shirt that is produced uses approximately 150g of a range of toxic chemicals as Paraquat and Parathion. The EPA considers 7 of the top15 pesticides used on cotton as ‘probable’ or ‘known’ human carcinogen and is estimated that less than 10% of the chemicals applied to cotton accomplish their task, the rest are absorbed into the plant, air, soil and water eventually into our bodies.
8. Why choose Organic?
Organic is widely embraced as having positive ‘chi’ or energy which can benefit people. Organic cotton farming also means that the land and the farmers who till it both receive tremendous benefits as does the environment.
9. Why use Organic Cotton Toys and Wooden Toys?
The first few years of a child’s life are very important for the growth and development. She is growing physically, mentally and emotionally and learning so much about her body, family and the world around her. One of the many things she is learning to do is grasping and manipulates objects. At first everything she will grasp ends up in the mouth. Non-organic cotton is heavily sprayed and those chemicals and any others involved in the processing of cotton stays in the fabric and is then passed onto your baby which can then cause health issues.
10. What are color grown cottons?
Wild, native cotton has always given us beautiful, healing colors, naturally, White cotton began as mutants of native colored cottons with today’s color-grown cotton cross pollinated with longer stapled cottons for the stronger fibers and fabrics created by newer milling technology. Subtle, earthy browns, greens and unbleached whites are the colors of the earth itself which are reflected in nature and these natural colors compliment our natural human colors.
11. Improve the quality of your life.
Improve the quality of life for yourself and future generations. The average child has 4 times as much exposure than an adult to at least 10 widely used cancer causing pesticides in food. The types of food that your child eats now will impact you child’s health in the future. All that you truely have is your health and should want that best health possible for your entire life!
12. Keep Chemicals off your Plate
Most pesticides approved for used by the EPA were registered long before extensive research linking these chemicals to caner and other diseases had been established. Now the EPA considers 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% of all insecticides to be carcinogenic. Pesticides have been implicated in birth defects, nerve damage, and genetic mutations. The bottom line is that pesticides are poisons designed to kill living organisms and we humans are living organisms..
