Originally Posted by gale
Originally Posted by wildyard
What is cotton if not organic? Just wash out all the stuff and don't add anything back in and you should end up with 100% pure cotton, right?
Tell me why, if I am wrong. LOL
Because like I mentioned above, all cotton is not 'organic'. It has to be grown and processed chemical free and has to be grown on chemical free (for 7 yrs I think) land and be a certain distance from fields that have been chemically treated. Doesn't matter if it can be washed out. It has to be chemical free from the get-go.
Sorry I was adding an edit while you were replying. But basically what you are saying is that it's not about the actual "cotton" being chemical free, it's about the growing and processing being chemical free due to it's cumulative effects on Mother Earth. So the fact that you can have chemical free 100% cotton fabric to sew with is not the issue, the issue is that if you get it that way from washing out chemicals from the processing, it remains non-organic and therefore non-green?