Organic and Eco-Friendly Products

The Organic Impact

seotech — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:53:30 +0000

Most people who choose organic do so because they ‘just know that it is better for them’ but how much impact can you actually have on our environment by choosing organic? What is the extent of the problem? Over time, pests have built up a resistance to pesticides. For this reason more and more pesticides need to [...]

Organic Bed Linen

seotech — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:45:05 +0000

The average person spend roughly one third of their life asleep. Studies have shown that our bodies are much sensitive to chemicals within our environment when we are asleep then when we are awake. Give this information the best way to take care of our bodies while we are asleep is to use bed linen [...]

Eco-friendly Laundry

seotech — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:09:33 +0000

Eco-friendly Laundry Products Conventional detergents contain a mixture of chemicals, the most significant of these for the environment being petroleum-derived surfactants, bleaches, colorants, phosphate additives, etc. When the water used in washing laundry is released back into the environment, water and soil is contaminated. For example, surfactants are toxic to aquatic organisms and are highly persistent [...]

Sustainable Living

seotech — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:51:30 +0000

Sustainable Living Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual’s use of the Earth’s natural resources. The idea is to live in a manner that is sustainable long-term in relation to the planet’s cycles and resources. Sustainability is a concept concerned with meeting present ecological, societal and economical needs without compromising these factors [...]

Organic Luxury Towels

seotech — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:35:27 +0000

Origins of the Towel It is thought that the modern towel was first created by the Turks between the 17th and 18th centuries. Two main factors contributed to the use of towels. The first was the use of special towels by Arab and Turkish brides in a ceremonial bath on the day of their wedding. The [...]

Bamboo Towels

seotech — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:08:04 +0000

Towels A towel is a piece of absorbent cloth used for wiping or drying, whether to dry yourself or something else. The material draws moisture away from the body through contact, otherwise known as wicking (the flow of liquids through porous material). Bath towels are generally woven with a loop or pile for absorbency. Usually this involves [...]

Bamboo Fiber Linen

seotech — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:21:15 +0000

Bamboo Fiber Plant fibers are elongated thick-walled cells that give strength and support to tissue in vascular plants. When manufacturing bamboo fiber products, the fibers are combed out and spun into yarn, just as flax or hemp is manufactured. Flax comes in bundles under the bark of the Linum usitatissimum plant, and is first retted, then [...]

Eco-Friendly Textiles

seotech — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:45:27 +0000

Textile Production Cotton is one of the world’s largest textile industries. Textile manufacturing involves the conversion of fibre into yarn, then fabric, then textiles which are then made into clothing or other products. There are five stages in the manufacturing of cotton: cultivating and harvesting, preparatory processes, spinning, weaving, and finishing. Cotton requires intensive farming, so [...]

Eco-friendly Children’s Clothing

seotech — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:56:33 +0000

What does ‘Eco-friendly’ mean? ‘Eco-friendly’ can be defined as both not harming the environment or proactively preventing environmental damage. There is no international standard for the use of ‘eco-friendly’ as a label, and is really too vague a lot of the time to be really useful. However it does encompass a philosophy, that in combination with organic certification, that [...]

Organic Kids Clothing

seotech — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:31:03 +0000

Organic Textiles Toxin-free. Eco-friendly. Biodegradable. Efficient. Renewable. Why wouldn’t you prefer to use organic textiles for your children’s clothing needs? Good for the environment and good for your kids, organic clothing really doesn’t have a downside. Organic textiles include materials such as organic cotton, bamboo fibre, yak down, silk, corn fibre, soy silk, jute, kenaf, hemp and [...]