Why Buy Organic?

That's simple, it's health. Did you know that a baby's skin is more porous and thinner than adults? That means that their skin absorbs things very easily. Johnson and Johnson states on their website the following about a babies skin: "A baby's skin is thinner, more fragile and less oily than adult's. A baby's skin also produces less melanin, the substance that helps protect against sunburn. It's less resistant to bacteria and harmful substances in the environment, especially if it's irritated. Babies also sweat less efficiently, so it's harder for them to maintain their inner body temperature." This means that children are at greater risk for pesticides-related health problems than adults.

Think how much choosing organic clothing for your children cuts down on the exposure they have to toxins. Organic clothing uses cotton that is not farmed in the conventional ways. Pesticides are not used; other safer methods are used to produce the crops. Such as crop rotation, physical removal of weeds instead of use of herbicides, hand hoeing, using beneficial insects to counteract the bad. Therefore, workers have better working conditions, water quality is not compromised by run-off, and strong healthy soil