organic cotton benefits and maintenance

you are like us: you did not know organic cotton before having children. And if you are like us: you will not be able to dress your children with anything else once you have read the following. That's why our Baby Boxes only offer organic cotton,
First, organic cotton fiber is softer and more flexible. Just browse the shelves of stores that offer organic and non-organic, the difference to the touch is obvious, even when you're not an expert.

Then, the organic cotton fiber is thicker and hypoallergenic. Babies skin is thinner and less resistant than adult skin. People who have gone from non-organic cotton to organic cotton have all naturally seen the itching and redness disappear as if by magic. Take the test!

The benefits of cotton (compared to other fabrics)

Cotton has a high absorbency: cotton plant fiber can absorb up to 8.5% of its weight in water. Needless to say that it is thanks to this property that cotton is very often used for making bath linen.

But this is not the only advantage of cotton: it also has an insulating power: even if we do not particularly like the pilling effect, It can thus retain warm air in contact with the body and "keep warm".

cotton is one of the fabrics capable of withstanding high temperatures. We can boil the white cotton. On the other hand, the cotton supports dry cleaning with hot iron (2 points on the maintenance codes). Iron that is too hot can yellow the white cotton.

How to maintain the cotton?

One of the main advantages of cotton is washing. Not very fragile, it goes smoothly at 40 degrees for T-shirts or at 30 for delicate clothes such as your lingerie(UNDERWEAR). In general, there is a cotton care code on clothing and fabrics with pictograms that advise you on the optimal washing temperature. For your clothes, we avoid a really high temperature but especially a washing too frequent which damages the fabric and risks to unbend it.
On the other hand, for towels, cotton sheets, or your white underwear in pure cotton, you can go up to 60 ° C or 90 ° C. while washimng is very warm while fabric will be unbend but the more bacteria are eliminated ...

Bleach can be used safely on white cotton but not chlorine which slowly burns cotton fiber. It can actually be used very diluted for whitening but is better to leave this job to a professional. Use a stain remover that preserves colors on colored cottons. Be careful, the cotton fibers are not elastic, it can easily fold and the fabric may need to cleaning with dry often.