By choosing particularly to buy organic cotton – for baby clothing, baby bedding or baby towels you are not only choosing to make a principled stance for your child’s health and a small contribution to the benefit of the environment. However, the benefits are tangible and measurable.
- Pesticide free and non-irritant: Cotton grown in the conventional way has up to nine applications of insecticides sprayed onto the crop each season. This is the reason that clothes made of such cotton can sometimes lead to skin problems and eczema in sensitive baby skin. On the other hand organically grown cotton is much more protective of a baby’s skin.
- Sustainable lifestyles – we are now suffering from many years of poor agricultural practice – where farmers use potentially harmful pesticides and fertilisers – and the soil is getting poorer and less sustainable in the long term.. As more and more mothers choose to buy organic products for their babies the demand will help farmers to make different choices and reverse the trend.
- Built to last – Organic clothes tend to be of good quality and are her for the long run! This baby wear is going to wear well and therefore has a built-in recycling capability – these clothes will stay in shape for passing down to sisters and brothers as well as cousins and friends (and finally to the charity shop) . AND cotton is biodegradable and earth friendly in landfill.