Hi everybody.
Hope you're doing well.
It's Melissa from Cloudmom.com.
Talking today about organic fabrics for babies and for children and the benefits of that.
Now, when you're out shopping for baby clothes or clothes for your children, you're usually
seduced by the pretty fabrics and the colors and the decorations.
But you have to step back because what really matters, especially when it comes to young
babies, is the type of fabric that's used in the garments, okay?
Reading from my notes here because this is heavily factual and I want to present the
right information so that you can make the right decision for you.
This is scary, "$2.6 billion worth of pesticides are used on cotton fields every year and in
the state of California, five of the top nine pesticides are cancer-causing agents."
Here's another interesting fact: "It takes approximately one pound of chemicals to grow
three pounds of conventional cotton."
"To the contrary," and I'm reading here from the resourceblo.com, "certified organic cotton
is grown without the use of harmful pesticides, herbicides or artificial fertilizers."
Now, babies can have very sensitive skin and many people with sensitive skin have noticed
that just by changing to organic fabrics alone, they've seen an alleviation in skin rashes
or other symptoms that they've had reacting to their clothing.
So that's one thing, that's one benefit of using organic clothing for your baby.
The second real benefit is that you're minimizing the amount of chemicals your baby is exposed
to on a daily basis.
And here's something else to think about, most of these chemicals that are used in the
growth and the production of the fabric are actually removed during the production process.
But during the finishing process, that is when the fabric is again, literally sometimes
drenched with chemicals.
And here's what happens: "Fabrics are drenched with toxic and hazardous chemicals to give
them a special look.
These include those used for dying, for bleaching, to make them stain resistant, to make them
flame resistant, to make them wrinkle free."
All of those processes, involve harmful chemicals that you very well might decide are not what
you want to expose your baby to.
So, I would definitely look into organic fabrics for a young baby, especially an infant baby,
especially if you have a history of skin diseases or other types of eczema, things like that
in your family.
It can tend to be more expensive, what do you do?
Well, it depends a lot on how things are set up in your house.
If you're able to do laundry frequently, you probably can easily get by on three to five
onesies, a couple of pairs of pajamas, those can really do you very well for quite a long
time.
I think you'll find also that the organic fabric is very soft, very nice quality.
You might not get those cute and fun patterns, but who really needs that when you're making
sure that your baby is really exposed to fewer chemicals and is safe.
So anyway, that's just my two cents.
We do have some organic clothing in my family.
Over time, we used it more and more.
I used it with my later babies and we did have success with it.
We don't have a lot of skin problems, but we do have eczema.
Several of my kids have eczema and I have noticed that the organic fibers have been
really helpful with that.
That they tend to get less eczema on their torso when they were using the organic onesies.
I don't know if that's just my experience.
But anyway, definitely, definitely something I would look into.
Go to my site for some more information on this and please share your experience.
How did you decide what to buy for your infants, for your babies?
What informed the decision for you?
What has your experience been?
I really would love to hear it from you.
Thank you so much for watching this video and for watching CloudMom and I will see you
next time.