Organic Cotton Pajamas Blog Posts

annie's picture

My daughter loves it when I've timed it just right and her pajamas come straight from the dryer and on to her, right out of a bath. I love it that she's putting Under the Nile organic cotton long johns on her freshly cleaned skin, trapping that warm bath feeling for what I imagine will be a quick path to slumber.

There are so many pajamas on the market that lure our kids with their favorite movie characters, book heroes, and cute sayings. What's not so cute are the chemicals that coat these conventional cotton pajamas. During the conversion of conventional cotton into clothing, a host of toxic chemicals are added at each stage including silicone waxes, harsh petroleum scours, softeners, heavy metals, flame and soil retardants, ammonia, and formaldehyde. Read more...

Katy Farber's picture

It has not been an easy journey for us sleepers for babies and toddlers. We were up to our ears in fleece footed sleepers, thanks to my super generous and bargain shopper mother in law. But I knew in the back of my mind that these sleepers were doused in chemical flame retardants that could be harmful to my babes. Thankfully, many were used and washed a billion times. But try as I might to see when they were “washed out” there was little data on this. And I tried not to think what “washed out” meant. To our well? To our little pond? Super!

So, one day, while the kids were blissfully role playing downstairs, I ran like Rambo with a plastic bag and sacked every footed fleece sleeper in sight. I shoved them deep in our closet, because no one could ever see them again. See, my 4 year old is quite fond of them.  So they had to be hid. Fast. Read more...

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