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What is Fast Fashion and why is it bad
With the boom of online shopping over the past decade, and the necessity for it over the period of the pandemic, companies have had to find ways of mass producing popular fashion whilst minimising their costs. Unfortunately, it has come to light in the past few years that many of these businesses exploit the economies of third world countries to employ unfairly low paid workers for long and arduous hours to mass produce garments. This process has coined the phrase ‘Fast Fashion’.The often unsafe
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Jul 20th 2022
Why do we get skin irritations and can Organic Cotton Clothing Help
Skin is your core protection against the elements, and a little known fact is that skin is actually the largest organ in the human body. It’s made up of three key layers: epidermis, dermis, and subcutis. With the epidermis being the outermost layer, it protects your muscles and organs from harm such as UV radiation, chemicals, physical damage, and bacteria. For this reason, we need to keep it healthy and reduce its exposure to damage.One of the key ways we do so is keeping it moisturised and hyd
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Jul 13th 2022
Rubber Allergies in Clothing
Please note that we are not expert in rubber allergies. However taking into account our experience with clients with Multiple Chemical Sensibility please note that depending of the degree they tolerate the presence of elastic bands in clothing, our pure chemical free cotton clothing may bye suited to them. Please note all our socks, underwear and pants which contain elastic / rubber are covered with pure organic cotton. Nevertheless, even when these elements are fully covered with organic c
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Apr 5th 2022
More about our Organic Cotton Clothing
We don’t have an environmental policy. We just do what comes naturally.Natural means reducing pollutionThe conventional growing and processing of cotton is responsible for 10% of the total pollution on our planet. That’s why we strive to promote the use of organic cotton which is free from chemicals and synthetic products throughout the entire growing, processing and manufacturing process.Natural means not using chemicalsPesticides, insecticides, agrochemicals, bleaches and the wet finishin
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Mar 31st 2021
What kind of guarantee do you give your Organic Cotton?
At Body4real Organic Cotton, we have produced what we believe to be the purest form of organic cotton clothing.Our Cotton is produced in Brazil and also in Turkey, the latter being one of the countries with the least transgenic seed contamination.Our spinning is done in both Brazil and Turkey and our weaving in Portugal, were the facilities are GOTS-certified and under the full control of the brand.All our clothing is manufactured in Europe in line with the most stringent quality standards.
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Feb 10th 2021