Organic Hoodies

While there are those brands, including the designer’s ones, who keep intoxicating us and polluting the world, it is up to us not to feed this unsustainable system.

Full of pesticides and toxic chemicals. It doesn’t matter how stylish or expensive it is! Even if it is made by a luxury designer with a premium price, if they don’t respect our skin, the workers, and the environment, it is not sexy or attractive. There is nothing about luxury. 

🌎 10.5 million tons of textile waste end up in the landfill every year, just in the USA!

Clothing can be made with many different materials. The irresponsible manufacturer produces their underwear using toxic, polluting, synthetic, and cheap materials to increase their profit at the expense of their customers’ health and the environment. 

🌟Let’s reduce waste, let’s buy better quality clothes! Don’t follow the fashion, but make your own!

Conventional Hoodies

Avoid conventional hoodies made with toxic dyes and cheap materials, often synthetic and petroleum-derived.

❌ Synthetic clothes: They are made of polyester, nylon, acrylic, spandex, rayon, or polyamide. These clothes release 9 MILLION plastic microfibers into the ocean every time we wash them. They make up 35% of the primary microplastics found in the oceans!

❌ Conventional Cotton: Avoid conventional cotton of any kind.  

Do you know that conventional cotton is considered the dirtiest crop in the world?

It is responsible for 16% of insecticides and 7% of pesticides on the planet! 🙈

It takes 713 gallons of water to make a non-organic t-shirt. 713 gallons of water are enough for a person to drink for 900 days. The water consumption of organic cotton is 91% lower than conventional cotton.

❌ Harmful chemicals: azo dyes, formaldehyde, PFCs or flame retardants, phthalates, heavy metals, chlorine bleach, VOCS.

Greenwashing Hoodies

Avoid greenwashing tops made by brands that pretend to be sustainable, or eco-friendly when they are not. They will try to convince the products are somehow green without proving it. 

They claim to be organic without certification. It doesn’t matter how big or luxurious their brand is, or if it is a designer line, if it is not made with responsible material in fair production, there is nothing sexy here.

❌ Greenwashing Cotton: Even if they claim “organic” or “natural”  cotton, if they don’t display the GOTS Certified seal, they may have something to hide.

❌ Recycled synthetic material: it still releases microplastics when washing 

❌ Avoid Bamboo viscose AKA Bamboo rayon: It is a bio-based semi-synthetic material created from cellulose fibers from bamboo. Even though bamboo is grown without pesticides, it is made into viscose, which requires toxic chemicals (carbon disulfide, solvents such as sodium hydroxide — a.k.a caustic soda) and a polluting process. Plus, it is mostly made in China! Therefore, bamboo viscose is greenwashing 

❌ Avoid Modal: it requires toxic chemicals such as sodium hydroxide and carbon disulfide to turn wood pulp into modal fibers. These substances can be hazardous to both workers and the environment. The majority is manufactured in China, and it is responsible for beach tree deforestation.

❌ Avoid Lyocell: its processing also omits certain harmful chemicals altogether.

❌ Avoid Tencel: Tencel is Lenzing’s trademarked version of lyocell or modal yarn

The Best Organic Hoodies

When shopping for organic hoodies check the label and website that they that they are made with certiifed organic cotton or fibers. They must display the certification and number. Also check who made them and if the support regenerative farming!

✅ The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibers, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain. 

The standard covers the processing, manufacturing, packaging, labeling, trading, and distribution of all textiles made from certified organic natural fibers.

• Organic: This label requires that a product contains at least 95% certified organic fibers.
• Made with Organic: This label requires a minimum of 70% certified organic fibers.

The aim of the standard is to ensure the organic status of textiles, from harvesting of the raw materials, through environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing, up to labeling.🍃 GOTS Certification also certifies the product does not have toxic heavy metals, pesticides, GMOs, chlorine bleaching, toxic dyes, PVC (all things that conventional cotton has 🙈🙊). It also certifies that the production has respected ecological rules on waste, water use, disposal, and protection of the environment, that it has followed rules that respect the workers, and finally protection for the consumer’s health.

✅ The Fair Trade Certified Factory: logo means these brands partner with Fair Trade Certified™ factories that provide safe working conditions, community support, and additional development funds to those working on-site.

✅ Regenerative Organic Certified® Cotton is more than certified organic, which prohibits the use of toxic chemicals, but also promotes regenerating the soil, promoting animal welfare, and improving the social and economic well-being of farmers and workers. Regenerative Organic Certified® cotton farmers source the highest quality organic cotton available. These farmers are on the cutting edge of regenerative agricultural practices that preserve soil and the planet, delivering the most luxurious, natural, and responsible cotton ever.  

The Best GOTS Certified Organic Hoodie Brands 

I listed here the best GOTS-certified organic hoodie brands: 

🌟Their cotton is superior, more resistant, and incredibly soft, compared to conventional cotton! Their cotton will last you much longer than cheaper conventional options. 

🍃By choosing only GOTS Certified Organic, or Regenerative Organic Certiifed we are sending a clear message to the toxic and greenwashing cotton companies: their marketing strategies are not working with us. That we care about the enveroment and the workers, and that we don’t wont their toxic stuff on our skin! 

By not supporting their brands, we are reshaping the market for better and more responsible products. 🌎

• ✅ The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) 
• ✅ Regenerative Organic Certified® Cotton
• ✅ The Fair Trade Certified Factory

Here are my top certified organic brand recommendations:

• 🌿 Vottera   10% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL10
• 🌿 Maggie’s Organics Regenerative Organic Certified®
• 🌿 Cottonique 10% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL for every order.
• 🌿 Allwear  20% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL
• 🌿 MATE  15% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL15
• 🌿 Organic Basics  

Shop with my links to support my research!💖