The benefits of GOTS certified mattress

We used to live in a different world. With much less pollution, or chemicals like the insecticides, pesticides. With lower levels of stress, healthy food and clean water. Our world was simply inhabited by a few billions people less. They did not need any certificates of purity to prove that something was good for them. However, nowadays, such things like the GOTS certified mattress help us know immediately that what we see is good for us.

Cotton and the environment

When your mom bought a t-shirt made of 100% cotton, it was soft, it was natural. Nowadays, cotton production, uses over 24% of the global insecticide usage and 11% of global pesticides. While only 2.4% of the world’s cropland is planted with cotton. According to World Health organization, up to 20 000 people die each year of pesticide poisoning. In the US alone over 10 000 farmers die yearly due to cancers caused by such chemicals.

When you buy a 100% cotton shirt, you buy not only the fabrics, but also the chemicals used during its production. Unfortunately, the problems do not stop here. Cotton, wheat, sugar cane, corn, use for its growth up to 70% of our world’s yearly accessible water. The world faces huge water problem. As WWF (World Wildlife fund) says:

“Agriculture, the largest industry in the world, is also the biggest threat to the environment. Inefficient food production and harmful agriculture subsidies are causing deforestation, water shortages and pollution.

Agriculture wastes 60% or 1,500 trillion litres, of the 2,500 trillion litres of water it uses each year – this is 70% of the world’s accessible water.

Many big food producing countries like the US, China, India, Pakistan, Australia and Spain have reached, or are close to reaching, their renewable water resource limits.“

Conventional cotton is not only harmful for our environment, but also can cause serious health problems. The chemicals used, remain in the fabrics, and are absorbed by the human body. They also pollute the soil, air and water reservoirs. By choosing organic cotton whenever possible, we help lower the global water, soil and air pollution, protecting our health and the environment.

What is organic cotton

It is cotton produced without the use of pesticides and other harmful chemicals. It is renewable, biodegradable and natural. It is soft and smells delicately. It does not cause rashes on the skin. Our clients who choose organic buckwheat hulls mattress, love the product, for its delicate soft fabrics and 100% organic buckwheat hulls.

Moreover, it does not harm the farmers and the environment during its production. It is produced through applying natural methods, like beneficial insect releases, new weeding machinery, together with strip cutting of alfalfa. To make sure, that the production follows the required guidelines, third party organizations check and certify that no toxic chemicals have been sprayed on the crops and only approved methods have been used.

Why organic cotton is better? The benefits of organic cotton revel some of the grand differences

• healthy; produced without the harmful to our health and the environment chemicals, wearing organic fabrics has a major impact on your health and the well-being of our planet
• the fabrics are residue free (the residue can cause an irritated skin, rashes, dizziness, headaches, different types of cancer)
• it is produced without the genetically modified organisms
• it does not create pollutants, does not increase soil salinity
• healthy for humans of all ages, using eco friendly mattresses is good for your health, good for the planet

organic cotton fabrics

Organic cotton is slightly more expensive, but when we think about all the benefits from its production for humans and the well-being of our planet, we see the harsh reality, created by the conventional cotton, more clearly. With its severe impacts on major ecosystems, such as the Murray Darling River in Australia, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, severely destroyed by the cotton production, conventional cotton becomes one of the destroyers of our safe future, one shirt at a time. But the healthy alternative, the organic cotton is more and more popular.

Slightly more expensive, yet of greater longevity and healthy, not just to us, our children but to our planet.

In 2015, H&M, the apparel giant, became the world’s largest buyer of organic cotton!

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