The Ethics of Organic Baby Clothing
May 9th, 2010Living an organic life doesn’t stop with buying organic clothes. When a mother slips an organic onesie onto her newborn, she wants to protect the environment and her child.
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Little does she know that ‘organic’ says nothing about how the raw fiber was processed. As so often, the devil is in the detail. Even organic textile producers might use toxic dyes and finishes like flame retardants in their manufacturing process.
These can build up in a baby’s tissue and enter the blood stream. New parents’ health and ethical standards call for advanced qualities in organic children’s clothing. A new player in the organic baby clothing business, answers this need.
