Why Buy Organic Cotton Baby Clothing?
Cotton is a wonderful choice for baby clothing because it is soft, durable, and machine washable. Organic cotton clothing is a wise choice for those who are interested in the health of the environment and their children. Conventionally grown cotton is one of the most pesticide-laden agricultural products on the planet. It takes about a third of a pound of pesticides to grow the cotton used for just one T-shirt, and about a pound of pesticide for an outfit of a cotton T-shirt and jeans. According to some estimates, cotton uses 25 percent of the world’s insecticides and 10 percent of its pesticides. In America, cotton uses more chemical fertilizer than any other agricultural product at an average of 142 pounds per acre. Those pesticides, insecticides and other chemicals are harmful to the people who apply them, the people who live near the farms that use them, and to the health of the surrounding water supply. Babies in particular can also be sensitive to the pesticides and other chemica
