ECO baby + kids

What could be more luxurious than soft and pure organic cotton? This fiber is alive with love from love for the workers in the field to those living around the field to the soil, air, and water to us and our children. Soy and bamboo are soft and the plants themselves are renewable and sustainable, but a closer look at the life cycle reveals a less apealing picture. Let’s take bamboo first, a sustainable crop yes, but most bamboo is grown in China (a country notorious for human rights abuses) and the most cost effective way to break the fiber down involves quite a bit of energy and some toxic chemicals. These chemicals, if not properly managed, can cause major damage to the ecosystems surrounding the factory. Additionally, analysis of bamboo fabric reveals that the fabric itself takes on some of these chemicals in it’s composition. Now for soy, if soy is not grown organically it is being heavily sprayed with pesticides (which are not only toxic but are made from petroleum) and the fertilizer too is a petroleum product. Even organically grown soy is controversial as many acres of rainforest have been destroyed to plant this cash crop. When you think about it a turning back of the clock is what we need, not a reinventing of the wheel (isn’t that why we are in this mess to begin with?) and organic cotton makes since as it is the cotton that our great great grandparents made their clothing from.

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