Health should always be our number one priority. Although it has been claimed for long that practicing healthy diet and working out will help us stay healthy, it is not completely true. There are numerous highly hazardous products and toxic substances that are lurking from every corner. They affect not only our food, but our care products, air, water and even clothes. Luckily for us, people are getting more and more concerned with the issue of severe health problems and pollution that have become a part of our everyday lives.
Although we can read and hear a lot about organic food and care products, it seems that no one tries to inform us in detail about organic clothes. What most people unfortunately don’t know is that eco-friendly fashion industry is as developed as any other branch of fashion, which means that you can wear both healthy and highly fashionable and trendy clothes. For all these reasons, many things remain obscure to us, thus people usually pose questions like “How can organic clothes improve my life?” or “How should I choose organic clothes?” Here are some basic tips on how to choose eco-chic clothes.
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Look for certified organic cotton
Did you know that there are various kinds of growing and producing cotton? Probably, you didn’t. Most of us believe that all cotton is organic, thus that it isn’t chemically treated with numerous poisonous substances. Unfortunately, that is not true. Industrial cotton is one of the most chemically treated plants, which are sprayed with the dangerous pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers. What’s even worse is the fact that, once used in fashion industry, cotton further goes through numerous chemical procedures, such as azo dyes, formaldehyde or phthalates that are supposed to make fabric softer and more durable.
That’s exactly why you need to always pay attention to the labels on the clothes you buy. What you are supposed to look for is whether certain clothes is approved by Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), Cradle-to-Cradle Certification (C2C) and Fair Trade Certificate, which assure us that the cotton we buy isn’t chemically treated, as well as that it doesn’t contain any dangerous toxins.
Look for new sustainable fabrics
As the organic fashion industry has developed, it inspired numerous innovative designers to look for and exploit various kinds of sustainable and eco-friendly fabrics that would be super-comfortable, healthy and fashionable. Therefore, apart from organic cotton, you should definitely try out various interesting fabrics, such as bamboo clothing, recycled PET or ECOlyptus (tensel). Either made out of organic cotton, some other organic material or even being hand woven, there is a sea of gorgeous sustainable dresses, tees and skirts you could wear proudly and feel perfect in your skin.
Mind quality!
What most people wonder is why they should buy organic clothes that are usually more expensive than regular apparel that can be found for much lower prices. Well, there is no article that could list all possible benefits of organic clothes. Apart from being ultra-comfortable and trendy, green apparel also has an amazing impact on our health. For example, you haven’t probably known that if the fabric is wrinkle-free or stain-resistant, it is probably treated with highly toxic chemical substances. Therefore, what you need to do is to shift yourself from buying a lot of poor quality and dangerous clothes to buying fewer, high quality clothes, which will also last longer. Whenever you grab some non-organic product, remind yourself that due to its production, our air is permanently polluted by carbon emissions, as well as that our water is both damaged and used in large amounts, which endangers our planet in so many ways.
All in all, what’s most important is that shifting to organic clothes doesn’t make you restrict your needs or wishes. Such clothes offer you a variety of choices, fabrics and designs, just as any regular clothes. Therefore, knowing all of this, we shouldn’t ask ourselves why we should buy organic clothes, but why we shouldn’t! Bear this in mind all the time!