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Organic Embrace (Australia) Pty Ltd ^Featured

Address

PO Box 723, Nerang, QLD, 4211, Australia

Telephone

0434 700 468

E-mail

Website

http://www.organicembrace.com.au

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Simply beautiful fair trade organic cotton clothing and manchester for babies and adults.

Organic Embrace is a Fair Trade organisation specialising in the sale of fine ecological clothing made of 100% organic cotton, tinted with beautiful Eco-friendly colours and other unpolluted and non-polluting fibres.

Simple & Beautiful

Fair-Trade, Certified Organic Cotton

Impeccably stitched, classic and designer clothing for men and women luxuriously soft towels and linens sleepwear and toys for babies and toddlers

Without the aggressive chemicals that stiffen and starch conventional cotton products, organic cotton is the way nature intended: smooth, pliant and non-allergenic.

Our products are from fair trade environments where the workers make a living wage in healthy working conditions, the families are looked after and the money goes fairly to all people involved in the process, not just the importers.

Below is the range of clothing we offer.

Baby clothes
The safest, softest fabrics to place against your child's skin

no poisonous chemicals or pesticides
practical, easy-fit designs
subtle colours
Clothing for men and women
Support fair trade and the environment in style

edgy streetwear
exercise gear
underwear
sleepwear
Also

thick towels and bathrobes
high thread-count sheets
shopping bags
100% natural incense
fashion jewellery
Certified Organic by Skal - to meet the rigorous organic standards of the Netherlands.

Certified Organic by ACO.

Wholesale enquiries welcome - We can customise t-shirts, towels and bags with your design and logo.
ORGANIC EMBRACE /RESPECTFUL INTERCHANGE

Not so many years ago, people finally started thinking more seriously about the quality of the products they put into their bodies (the "you are what you eat..." theory). However, only recently have they begun to consider the fundamentals of what they put on their bodies and started questioning the benefits and hazards to our health and environment related to the fibres that go into making the clothes they wear.

Derived mainly from petroleum, synthetic fibres are recognised, by most ecologically minded consumers, as presenting obvious drawbacks for the environment, world economy and the consumer, including a number of health-related problems (allergies, static electricity...)

So let's all wear cotton!!!

It's natural! It's a plant! Growing in our own wonderful fertile earth. Cotton makes us think of soft fluffy towels and clean crisp sheets, of pure cotton balls and sterile pads... Accusing organic cotton of being anything unethical is like accusing mother's milk of being unhealthy.

The hard facts: most "Natural Cotton" products should be labelled with a skull and cross bones

Cotton is grown on about 2.5% of the world's cultivated areas. However, a full 25% of all pesticides used worldwide go onto the cotton crops (statistics from PAN - Pesticides Action Network - http://www.pan-international.org). The conventional cotton farmer uses about 1/3 pound of hazardous chemical fertilizers and pesticides to grow the one pound of cotton needed for a T-shirt! It is estimated that less than 10% of the chemicals used on cotton actually serve the purpose of eliminating pests; the rest are absorbed into the plant, air, soil and water. Pesticides don't only harm the earth; statistics report that 60% of field workers in the cotton industry show symptoms of permanent poisoning. These pesticides have not only been linked to declining sperm counts and increased cancer, traces have also been found in the milk of animals and nursing mothers. In India alone, the life expectancy of cotton farmers has dropped to 35 years.

Conventional fabric and textile production also relies heavily on further chemical treatments, such as highly toxic, heavy metal chemicals in the dyeing process and so-called "Permanent Press" treatment, which involves the use of formaldehyde, a known irritant and suspected carcinogen... Also, a white T-shirt is not naturally white - it's been bleached with chlorine, another extremely toxic pollutant.

Don't despair!

It really is possible to re-experience the same warm fuzzy relationship you once had with cotton. After all, cotton has been harvested and worn since before 2,500 BC, particularly in Egypt and, even back then, farmers knew how to work with nature to obtain the best results for their crops without endangering their environment. Today's organic cotton is grown by means of both ancient and innovative growing methods.

No chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilisers; no genetically modified organisms

Organic methods consider the requirements of the entire eco-system and employ natural techniques to encourage plant growth, repel pests, protect and encourage wildlife habitats. One of many simple techniques used is putting out grain that attracts birds that, in turn, eat the cotton worms. Over time, organic agriculture techniques increase soil fertility, thus protecting the health of the farm workers, as well as that of everyone in the consumer chain right down to the final wearer. Organic farming could well be the best re-invention of the 21st century.

If producers and consumers co-operate collectively to decrease the amount of pollution and toxins released into our environment and our lives, the impact on the environment can turn from one coming from ignorance and indifference to one of protection and nurturing.

As a consumer, your purchasing decisions affect the future of our planet. Organic farming is not a fad. It is an ancient knowledge re-discovered and, with new scientific discoveries, it is at the start of its modern development.