Organic Men's Shorts

Susanna Cellucci

Susanna Cellucci

Updated Sep 19, 2026

There are a few very powerful individuals who take advantage of something that is shared with the rest of humanity for their interest and that is the planet! 🌎

They make cheap products, made with toxic materials, pollute the environment, they exploit the labor and then sell these to us!

Conventional Men’s Shorts

​Avoid conventional shorts made with: 

❌ Synthetic clothes: they are made of polyester, nylon, acrylic, spandex, rayon, or polyamide. These clothing release 9MILLION 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. Any cotton brand without the Organic Certification seal is considered conventional = toxic. Here is why: Cotton is considered the world’s dirtiest crop. There are a few powerful individuals who take advantage of something that is shared with the rest of humanity for their own interest and that is the planet! Roundup Ready Cotton (RR Cotton), has been genetically modified to survive the herbicide weapon called glyphosate Roundup, invented by Monsanto. Resulting in predictable consequences of stronger weed resistance to glyphosate, which in turn led to an increase in pesticide use. The glyphosate rate of application per crop year has tripled on cotton farms. 

Greenwashing Men’s Shorts

Avoid Greenwashing shorts made by brands that pretend to be organic, natural, safer, sustainable, or eco-friendly when they are not. They will use their misleading and deceiving marketing tricks to convince you to buy their products.

❌ 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 microplastic when washing 

❌ Controversial manufactory: dresses made by exploiting child labor and in other unfair environments 

❌ Avoid Viscose AKA Rayon: Viscose Rayon is responsible for deforestation in Indonesia. Every year, 3.2 billion trees are cut down to make paper packaging or fabrics such as rayon and viscose.

Viscose fabric is made from cellulose that’s been extracted from the bark, wood, or leaves of plants. It’s most often made from bamboo, pine, or eucalyptus trees. Viscose is used to make clothing (especially loungewear and activewear), sheets, and bedding. Viscose is toxic: chemicals are then used to break down cellulose so it can be spun into viscose—some of which are toxic. One of the most ubiquitous, and dangerous, is carbon disulfide.​

❌ 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 (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: viscose that has been made using a closed-loop production process. This more sustainable process also tends to lead to slightly stronger, more durable fabrics.

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

❌ Avoid Lenzing: Lenzing is a fiber production company based in Austria. 

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

❌ Recycled REPREVE® Nylon: it is still Nylon 

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We can either wait for the institutions to act to protect us or we can take action to change the system by not feeding the wallets of these toxic and extremely wealthy companies. We can start now to protect our health and the health of the planet 🌎  While there are those who keep intoxicating us and the polluting world, it is up to us to not feed this unsustainable system.

How? Here is what you can do:

Take action now with our wallets to change the system, and reward responsible and suitable brands.  Choose organic and natural fiber such as cotton but not just any cotton, GOTS Certified Organic Cotton!

Certified Organic Men’s Shorts

To know that you are getting certified organic cotton you need to check that the item displays the  “GOTS” – Global Organic Textile Standard – logo on the merchandise or brands. 

✅ 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 at least 70% certified organic natural 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.

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) was created to set criteria for how fibers and textiles must be ginned, knitted, woven, dyed, manufactured, and labeled. 

Brands carry the certification that doesn’t allow pesticides or insecticides in their cotton, their dyes cannot contain toxic material and the production has to follow strict environmental rules. Making these items completely sustainable.  💗

 

The best shorts are made by brands that use GOTS Certified Organic Cotton. The water consumption of organic cotton is 91% lower than conventional cotton. ☁️Certified GOTS organic cotton is made without toxic chemicals and pesticides.

It protects the soil and 💦water (81% less water used) and energy⚡️ (62% less energy), while 👩‍🌾 protecting farmers who work the crop! 🍃It is incredibly soft and durable, compared to conventional cotton. Organic cotton even prevents skin rash and protects delicate skin!

 

GOTS seal Certified Organic logo

 

 

By choosing only GOTS Certified organic, we are sending a clear message to the toxic and greenwashing cotton companies: their marketing strategies are not working with us. By not supporting their brands, we are reshaping the market for better and more responsible products.🍃 

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We are telling the companies (the ones with only financial goals in mind) we won’t pay for their toxic or misleading products, that we demand better: more transparent and eco-conscientious products made with respect for the environment! 🌎

 

✅ The Fairtrade 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.

 

Fair Trade Certified Factory logo

  • ✅ 100% GOTS Certified Organic Cotton
  • ✅ EKO-TEK Certified 
  • ✅ Azo-free dyes 
  • ✅ Organic Content Standard 
  • ✅ No PFAS, BPA, GMOs, pesticides, and Formaldehyde 
  • ✅ Sustainable Packaging 
  • ✅ Circular Fashion

The Best Certified Organic Men’s Shorts Brands 

🍃Here you will find the best GOTS-certified organic men’s shorts brands on the market:

 

 

Shop with my links to support my research!💖​

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Allwear logo

20% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL

Organic Basics Logo
Maro logo

10% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL

Harvest & Mill Organic Cotton Clothing logo
Cottonique Logo

10% off code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL

Quince logo