Chemical Free Clothes

I found an interesting article about how Going chemical-free in your clothing is getting easier. As many people know, the cotton in our clothes is commonly grown with pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Many synthetic fabrics such as nylon, acrylic and polyester are petroleum-based. Because we wear cotton clothes daily, it's important to know the effects of our consumption. OS is it dangerous? Well, apparently wearing the clothes merits no harm. However, it is extremely dangerous for the people who are manufacturing the product. The factory workers who are already exploited through their cheap labor and poor working conditions are the ones being threatened for our benefit.

I picked this article to post on my blog because it reminded me so much of our talk we had in my sustainability class. We were talking about chemicals in everyday products such as makeup or lotion and how most of the chemicals in them are harmful but the debate was over in which ways. Are the chemicals in foundation really enough to cause cancer just by daily use or do you actually have to eat the makeup to get cancer? After reading the article, I don't think it really matters. What does matter however, is the fact that the people making our products are being effected. When I researched Maybelline I found that their products are made in Arkansas. I'm sure the workers have been through extensive safety training, and know how to handle everything. I'm not even sure how many workers their are.

There is a bigger issue that a lot of the products we ship in that are made up of chemicals effect oversea workers more than it effects us.

The article mainly talks about organic cotton and how it is easier to get. You can find it at:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ecoconsumer/2010039615_ecoconsumer10m.html. I just chose to focus on why it is so important to make changes such as buying products that were made out of organic cotton.