Why Organic Cotton?

Rawganic Organic Cotton – Organic Sensitive Skin Care

With Rawganic organic cotton wipes you benefit from the softness and strength of cotton whilst respecting the environment and avoiding aggressive chemicals.  Organic cotton is produced in a way that is more natural and sustainable.

Let’s look at the benefits of organic cotton through each production stage: 

Seeds

• Organic cotton seeds are left in their natural state and are not pre-treated with synthetic fungicides or insecticides, thus avoiding insecticides and fungicides getting into the environment.
• The seeds are completely non-GM, thus avoiding the well-known issues surrounding GM-crops.  So organic cotton helps you to avoid GM-materials, as a significant proportion of normal cotton comes from GM seeds.

Growing the Crop

• Organic cotton farming does not use any synthetic pesticides or herbicides.  Instead, it uses more natural methods to control pests and weeds, again avoiding insecticides and fungicides building up in the environment.
• With organic cotton, aerial spraying of synthetic pesticides or herbicides is unnecessary – avoiding the risk of those chemicals drifting onto neighbouring crops or settlements.
• Organic farming helps biodiversity, with organic cotton fields containing a significantly higher number of beneficial insect species. Organic farming aims to help reduce pests by encouraging their natural predators – it helps maintain the balance between pests and their natural predators.
• Organic farming is rarely based on just a single crop – thus helping prevent the loss of soil so often associated with monoculture. 
• Organic farming helps add humus to the soil, thus improving the amount of water it can hold.  So organic cotton needs less irrigation (and takes up less energy to pump water).
• Secondary or trap crops (such as sunflower or millet) can be grown between plots of organic cotton – creating a natural barrier against boll weevils and other pests, which have difficulty finding their favourite food through the extra foliage (and the secondary crops provide another cash crop or even food for the farmers).

Harvesting the Crop and Manufacturing the Product

• Organic cotton production does not use chemical defoliation, again avoiding adding chemicals to the environment.
• All parts of the chain in organic cotton production are checked and certified by well-known bodies such as the Soil Association, providing assurance that the benefits of organic farming are really being provided.
• All organic products manufactured using organic cotton are also checked and certified by bodies such as the Soil Association, again providing assurance and trust.
• Manufacturing organic products includes strict controls to prevent contamination by ordinary cotton.

Make Rawganic organic cotton wipes your choice for organic sensitive skin care.