Organic Bedding Owners

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Organic bedding is sheets, pillows, blankets, quilts, bumper pads for cribs and mattresses that are manufactured with natural fibres such as cotton and wool that were grown and processed without the use of chemicals or pesticides. During the manufacturing no synthetic dyes or other harmful chemicals are used in processing the fibre before weaving.

There are several reasons why organic baby bedding collections are better than conventional bedding collections. The most important reason is to protect the sensitive skin of infants and children up to two years old. The toxic chemicals used in processing cotton can irritate skin and cause other health problems because babies under the age of two years have thin skin which can absorb any chemicals that remain in their bedding or clothing. Organic cloth has low impact dyes and no chemicals to get into the babies bloodstream.

Allergies and breathing problems caused by the toxic chemicals in the bedding can arise and lead to asthma. Babies may also be sensitive to polyester or other synthetics blended with cotton in conventional baby bedding collections. To receive the organic label, the bedding must be free of all of these hazardous chemicals.
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Cotton is a very chemically intensive field crop. It uses 25 percent of all the insecticides consumed in agriculture because pests are a great threat to cotton. This includes fungicides, defoliants and herbicides. Cotton is also treated with several chemicals at the textile mills to improve the appearance and performance of the thread. There are 8,000 toxic dyes and formaldehydes used at this time. These chemicals are washed back into the soil and groundwater seriously damaging them and the farm workers who are exposed to them everyday. Organically produced cotton does not use any of these