What is Organic cotton?

Organic cotton is grown in living-soil fields which have been free of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers for at least three years.  Organic cotton is produced with animal or vegetable matter fertilizers and is free from toxic chemicals.  Organic farming relies on crop rotation, mechanical cultivation and botanical or biological controls. Products made from organic cotton support sustainable cotton farming practices, help reduce contamination of the earth and increase the quality of our health.

What is Conventional cotton?

The conventional cotton crops are one of the heaviest users of toxic pesticides and fertilizers which pollutes the environment and our health.  These chemicals are so toxic that they are prohibited for use in food agriculture!  Although, you can find cottonseed oil among the ingredients of some food products; and cotton seed is also commonly fed to beef and dairy cattle.

Afterwards, they add even more chemicals to make the cotton into fabric and to color it (bleaches, dyes, formaldehydes...) which cannot be completely removed by washing.

What is Transitional cotton?

Transitional cotton is cotton produced by a certified producer under certified organic production methods.  It is produced during the three year-transition period before crops are certified organic, but grown under the same requirements for organic farming.

What is Color-Grown Organic cotton?

Color-grown organic cotton naturally grows in a range of beautiful colors, without pesticides, fertilizers, or genetically engineered processes.  This is why it never fades, in fact, its color and softness slightly improve with every washing.  The colors range from cream to willow green to warm mocha.

What is Low-Impact-Dyed Organic cotton?

Organic cotton that has been dyed with a very low-impact dye to minimize the negative effect on the environment and our health.

What is Natural cotton?

Cotton grown with conventional methods (sprayed with pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), but is not chemically processed when made into fabric.

Now, lets take a look at some facts:

• -Over 1.5 lb of toxic chemicals are used to grow the cotton for a conventional cotton sheet set!  -About 1/3 lb to make a T-shirt!  About 3/4 lb to make a pair of jeans...!

• -A 1997 article in Audubon magazine estimated that pesticides unintentionally kill at least 67 million birds in the U.S. each year!

• -Of the estimated 85 million bales of cotton grown this year world-wide, perhaps only 20,000 will be organic.

• -Why don't more farmers go organic if the economics make more sense?  It's a complicated answer that lies as much with the monolithic power of pesticide corporations and conventional agribusiness as it does with manufacturers and consumers.

• -25% of the pesticides and fertilizers used in the world is sprayed in conventional cotton crops, even though these crops occupy only 3% of the world's farmland.  
• -Some of these chemicals are among the most toxic classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency!!!  In developing countries, where regulations are less stringent, the crisis is even more severe.
• -Most of the chemicals used in the farm industry were first developed for warfare!!!
• -An estimated 25 million people worldwide are poisoned by pesticides every year, which translates to 48 per minute!!!
  
  

Now you have a better idea of why thousands of people choose to go Organic!