- Cotton - the universal basis of style
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We love to look at labels on the clothes, to understand what kind of tissue in contact with our skin. And cotton - this is the material that tops the list of the most desirable things in our locker room and on the podium. Each season from it sewed a lot of things for different weather and different occasions.
There is no one type of material, and the range is expanding. Cotton will never lose its relevance, and to understand it, you only need once again to touch him, feeling all his positive qualities.
Nowadays it takes a special urgency BioCotton, but it is interesting to know about the usual and natural cotton, which is the customary and traditional materials introduced into many parts of clothing, delicate underwear, thick and warm outerwear
Outerwear: with special warmth
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Have you ever asked yourself why the washing machine requires special wash cycle for cotton items? This material even seems universal and not very fussy, but quite demanding, so to care for the things of cotton requires a special approach if you want to preserve their quality.
BioCotton
Recent years have seen a trend of the absolute - the desire for sustainability, which manifests itself in the manufacture of mass producing products of different purposes. Increasingly, the stores can see products labeled "bio" - is not only food, but also materials that are used for clothing and other items. This is not surprising - in our time is particularly important to show environmental awareness to preserve the integrity of natural resources and their own health.
Many have heard of such a material as a BioCotton. Standard cotton grown in the area, which is a 2, 4% of the area of the planet, and 24% of pesticides which are available for sale in the world, used to grow cotton. And, of course, all this has a negative impact on the people who will later use this cotton, wearing clothes from him and furnished home furnishings to its content.
Unlike traditional cotton, BioCotton also processed, but it used natural substances, such as manure and mud, which are of organic origin and have no harm to the body of people who wear cotton clothes, and do not pollute the atmosphere.
Thus, people who work in manufacturing biohlopka a fraction of occupational diseases related to the influence of chemicals, and the soil in which it is grown, healthier and updated much faster. People who wear clothes from biohlopka have a lower risk of allergic reactions, use of hazardous products without pesticides and the best quality.
If you want to try on the positive properties biohlopka and feel responsible for the environment and your health, remember, and this material will require special care. Wash these things need to be soft, eco-friendly detergents that do not break the balance and allow natural biomaterial remain so, without saturating it with chemicals.
Melanzhirovanny and modified cotton: practical alternative naturalness
Among the family of cotton fabrics, you will always find two species that do not belong to the 100% cotton - is melandirovanny and modified cotton. As indicated adjectives, these fabrics are not natural, they are mixed with other synthetic materials such as polyester (melanzhirovanny or mixed), or modified cotton and high resistance to insect pests at a stage of the plant.
- Melanzhirovanny or mixed cotton
Cotton blended with polyester capable of storing many quality 100% cotton. Such a material absorbs moisture and is more durable, but lingerie from it wears out faster. Clothes made of such a blending material body less pleasant than the original cotton fabric, and it is due to the properties and texture of polyester. Therefore, many prefer 100% cotton, which are returned after a short-lived wearing cotton with the addition of synthetics.
There are pleasant to the skin variants mixing cotton fibers, for example viscose. Rayon - is also an artificial material, which has properties close to cotton fabric. It is more environmentally friendly than polyester, greater strength of cotton basics. By preliminary modifications viscose able to demonstrate increase its durability and resistance to deformation, which makes it the perfect ally for the formation of high-quality cotton fabrics.
The modified cotton as a culture characterized by excellent performance of stability and resistance to insects that damage it. Thus, the modified cotton - it's a great alternative to the traditional view it. Cases and "punctures" the cultivation of this kind of cotton, such as happened in India. Insect damage continue the culture, even though the modifications because they are adapted thereto.
But whatever the mix of cotton and its changes at the deepest level, at the stage of the cultivation of cotton, 100% cotton continues to be a leader on such indicators as the soft, hypoallergenic and overall comfort for the skin.
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