The skin is our biggest organ. It contributes to the metabolism and to the respiration of the body. It is sensitive to heat and cold, to humidity and to dryness, to contact, even to a gentle breeze. The skin is not only an organ that accomplishes central bodily functions, but also the most important sense organ.
Not only the application of so-called skin care products and cosmetics of more or less unknown composition can affect the function of the skin and therefore the well-being of man, but also the choice of garment has an important influence on the well-being. The pure natural fibre is in a certain way seamless continuation of the human skin on the outside. It lets the skin breathe, it facilitates the temperature and humidity equalisation and flatters the emotional sense.
With natural fibres the human being is balanced
Garments made out of natural fibres, this are above all garments made out of cotton out of which more than fifty per cent of the worldwide produced garments are fabricated. However, these are also valuable fibres like silk, traditional linen and hemp and of course the various wools rangeing from fine alpaka, about merino and up to robust iceland wool.
Cotton, hemp, linen –plant fibres
Cotton is very skin kind because it allows to circulate air and it does not hinder the skin in the humidity transport of vital importance. Especially for allergic persons it is very recommendable, due to its smooth fibre surface. It takes up the skin moisture and then cools the body. Beause overheating, for example, in sport activity in summer, is for the human being as hurtful as. Advantage in using it daily is the trouble-free laundry in the washing machine.
Hemp and linen are more coarse and therefore, are perfect in summer because they are on the one hand easy and light, but on the other hand protect the skin well against sunbeams.
Wool and silk – most similar to our skin
Wool and silk are the most ideal garment and clothes worn directly on the skin, because both are in their structure most similar to human skin. In that way the wool fibre can with its fine capillary on the one hand absorb and save a lot of humidity (sweat) – up to 60 per cent of its own weight- and can keep the skin dry and protect it against cooling down. Wool is a natural “air-conditioning”. Furthermore, wool is easy to clean: normally it is enough to aerate pullovers and other garments and the self-cleaning powers of the natural material can unfold.
Natural fibres without chemistry
The natural fibre is often in many cases only a starting material, a raw material which is treated heavily with chemistry during industrial processing and therefore loses its positive qualities. In that way the natural fibres become in the course of industrial processing more and more similar to the synthetic fibre and the outstanding advantages for skin and metabolism get more and more lost.
Some of these chemical impacts get removed, in the end of this “processing”, by intensive washing, so the legal limits of permissible errors, at least of goods distributed in Western Europe are kept. Textiles that are certified with the Ökotex 100- label, follow guaranteed standards.
Even though remainders of the chemical treatment are below the limits of permissible errors, or are not even traceable with normal measuring methods (are below “detection limit”) does not mean that these clothes are “free of remains”. Concrete experience of concerned people confirm over and over again a negative influence even of the smallest chemistry leftovers. Especially people with a disease, allergies or hypersensitivity, but also people who tend to sweat heavily. The natural body sweat can extract the chemical substances from the textile and transfer on the skin.
Security by means of NATURTEXTIL
Even when terms like “Natur”, “Bio” or “Öko” referring to garment are presently not protected, unlike the food sector with its strict regulations, you can play it safe when buying textiles: both consumer initiative and critical magazine Okötest certify this with the quality label NATURTEXTIL of IVN. The special difference in testing the harmful substances on the finished garment, is that the two quality labels NATURTEXTIL do exist only in clothing, which do not apply harmful chemicals during the whole production process. Thus, already with cotton cultivation no pesticides, fertilisers and defoliants may be used. The skin can breathe properly, because synthetic resin equipment is forbidden anyway. When chemistry is not even in clothing, later it cannot have an harmful effect on it. |
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| Kleidung aus reinen Naturfasern ist gesund, bürgt für Wohlbefinden und ist gut für die Umwelt. |
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