Organic Cotton vs Conventional Cotton

Non-organic cotton uses more insecticides than any other crop.
Problems linked to pesticide use include: reduced soil fertility, frequent water pollution, reduced biodiversity in the surrounding areas and wild animal and livestock poisoning.

According to the UK-based Pesticide Action Network, at least 20,000 people in developing countries die every year from poisoning by agricultural pesticides and three million suffer acute or reproductive after effects.
The majority of cotton, by weight, ends up in our food supply. Cottonseed oil is used in everything from cookies to canned tuna—just one more reason we need organic cotton!

Growing organic cotton means health and ecological damage can be prevented so that human illness, environmental depletion and financial losses can be reduced.

Organic cotton feels softer because the cotton fibers are left intact and not broken down by the chemicals used in the farming and processing of non-organic cotton.

Organic cotton is not finished with formaldehyde, which has been identified as a cancer-causing agent by the International Institute for Research on Cancer and which is used to finish non-organic cotton products.

Organic cotton is less likely to trigger allergies: there are no harmful chemicals and organic cotton is more breathable.
Organic cotton doesn’t use chemicals, so water run-off is not toxic.

Each year, non-organic cotton producers around the world use nearly $2.6 billion worth of pesticides that’s more than 10 per cent of the world‘s pesticides and nearly 25 per cent of the world‘s insecticides.