Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Story of Cotton

T-shirt never fail to let a person look fashionable as t-shirt is the clothes that easy to mix and match. Nowadays, t-shirts are available in a variety of sizes, colours, patterns, styles, sleeves, and designation. T-shirts is just fit to anyone from infants to adults. A simple t-shirt and jeans can let a person looks pretty nice and energetic too. 

Don’t you agree on that?

So, what is the main raw material for t-shirt? Well, most of the t-shirts are made of cotton. Some environmentally conscious manufacturers will use organically grown cotton to make the products.

What is Cotton?
Cotton flower
Cotton ball in green


Cotton ball ripe
Cotton ball open


Cotton plant is a shrubby plant and belongs to the Mallow family. It produces lovely flower. Cotton is a soft white natural fiber can be obtained from the cotton plant. Organic Cotton is one of the most widely used fibers in the textile world and is enormously important commodity throughout the world.
The cotton fibers normally grow around the seeds so that the plant can help to distribute themselves by wind. Today cotton is produced for manufacturing various organic cotton products, organic fabric, organic cotton clothing, organic cotton garments for kids, infants, women and men.



Organic Cotton Products
Organic Cotton Products Manufacturer eliminates toxic chemicals in every step of the growing process by emphasizing natural. Organic cotton products such as gift boxes, gift bags, handkerchief, health and beauty products, travel and sampler kits represents a safe and sustainable practice as there are no harmful toxics involved in the process. They are also eco products because they are renewable, versatile and sustainable.

Organic Fabrics
Organic Fabric comes under variety of designs, colors and graphic elements. Organic fabrics are used in personal care items like sanitary products, cotton swabs, baby diapers. These products provide support to global sustainable agriculture, thereby enhancing the health of the customers and protecting the environment from toxic chemicals.

Organic Cotton Clothing
Organic Cotton Clothing is done without the use of hazardous toxics, synthetic fertilizers, harsh chemical bleaches or dyes. Organic Cotton Clothing includes high quality clothing apparels. They have same fiber strength, length and all other properties as conventional cotton.


Properties of Cotton
  1. Soft and comfortable
  2. Good absorbency. It can absorb perspiration quickly without leave a sticky feel.
  3. Good colour retention and can print well on it.
  4. Machine washable. No matter it is white cotton shirt or coloured cotton shirt, it can be washed by washing machine.

Uses of Cotton
  1.    Clothing (Blouses, shirt, pants, skirts, swimwear, etc.)
  2.    Medical and cosmetic applications (bandages, wound plaster, cotton bud)
  3.    Home decorations things (curtain, carpets, pillowcases, etc.)
  4.    Cellulose products (fertilizer, fuel, cardboard, etc.)

Uhm..I thought that cotton is just simply can get from the plant. Until today, I only realized that the production of this organic product in cotton is so complicated than what I thought so far. Over 80 countries worldwide is growing cotton. Hence, we can conclude that the cotton really contribute a lot to us everyday. That is why girls like to shop at 'Cotton On' outlets for their favourite clothes.

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