Cotton Crush – Walking in High Cotton

June 1, 2010

Organic Cotton Mattresses for Healthy Sleep

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Most of our times are spent on bed, so it’s important to make sure that our bedding mattress are healthy to the skin and body, and able to give us a tender sleep.

Organic cotton mattresses can be used instead of conventional innerspring mattresses. An innerspring mattress is made from steel coil springs, filler, and a cover. Usually, conventional cotton or polyurethane foam and flame retardant is used around the springs. A synthetic fabric, coated with formaldehyde, is the cover. By using organic cotton, or even flame-resistant organic wool as a filler, and natural quilting as a cover, organic bedding is bereft of toxins.

Thought second when you choosing mattresses next time, since it’s your best friend in the night for a very long evening time.


September 26, 2009

Winter Gloves That’s not Made of Cotton

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cotton gloves

Continued by the previous post about winter glove choice, this time I’m talking about the other type of gloves that are not made of cotton.

Insulated leather palm work gloves

Leather palm work gloves, with an insulated lining, are tough, durable, warm gloves. Made from heavy leather, this style of glove will protect your hands in harsh winter conditions. The glove is ideal for outdoor winter work, and is also available with a knitted wrist to further protect hands from snow and ice.

Insulated leather freezer gloves

If your job requires you to work in cold storage or freezers, you know how quickly your skin feels icy. Insulated leather freezer gloves are the answer. Made from heavy leather with a thermal lining, and with a knit wrist for added protection, this glove allows good range of motion for working in any frigid condition, and keeps out cold, ice, and snow.

Insulated nitrile-coated gloves

Working with oil or chemicals in cold weather is a common necessity. For this kind of hazardous work, insulated nitrile gloves fit the bill. Dipped twice in nitrile butyl rubber, with a thermal cotton lining, this style of glove offers protection against cold temperatures as well as potentially harmful substances. A rough finish can provide the grip you need in slippery conditions.

Insulated rubber-coated gloves

In cold weather, handling glass, waste items, or any wet objects can be a problem. For these situations, an insulated, enhanced-grip rubber glove offers excellent protection. A knit wrist and an insulated layer help keep your hands warm and dry while you work safely with wet objects in cold temperatures.

Insulated PVC gloves

In harsh conditions, an insulated PVC glove with a thermal lining and a rough finish is another good choice. Perfect for working outdoors in bad weather, insulated PVC gloves are available in bright colors, such as orange, for high visibility. The rough finish provides a good grip for handling a wide range of material.

No matter what task or job takes you outdoors in cold weather, good winter gloves are a crucial part of your dress. In the worst conditions, it can take just a few minutes to make your hands and fingers feel numb. Fortunately, choosing the correct cold weather gloves is just a question of matching your activity to the right glove. You’ll be glad you did.

September 1, 2009

Bedtime’s Best Green and Organic Cotton Goods

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Made with fiber from plants that are grown without toxic pesticides, organic sleep gear is essential for ensuring baby’s safe slumber and healthy development.

There’s no sight sweeter than a softly snoozing baby. Of course, a softly snoozing baby surrounded by pure organic cotton. The cotton toy that you should bought home for your baby would be those made from cotton grown using sustainable farming practices that maintain soil fertility without use of toxic pesticides or fertilizers.

Baby smiles, you smiles.

Coyuchi is a global citizen in every sense of the word. Its whimsical Jingo design—a sheet, bumper are just a few of the items included—speaks to the company’s international pedigree, featuring delightfully embroidered animals from all over the world on a smooth, natural white organic cotton background.

August 9, 2009

Design You Own Cotton Pillow

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Try to design a pillow of your own to demonstrate how fun and easy this can be.  The design starts with first picking the pattern you love, there are many fine pattern to pick from.

The next step would be your Fabric Options, where you can choose from Cotton with a 215 Thread Count, Cotton Casement, Linen/Cotton Blend and Silk Dupioni.  My choice was the breathable and versatile Linen/Cotton Blend since I wanted something light that could be used with a more casual decor.

Size does matters because the next step in your design are the measurements of your pillow.  You can choose between 18 x 18 or 26 x 26 – though I think it’d be great to have bigger sizes as well.

The final step and the most fun is choosing the colors for your design.  You can choose the base color and detail colors depending on the pattern you’ve chosen.  For only $50, this service gives you the chance to really personalize your home’s decor!

August 2, 2009

How Often to Replace Your Cotton Towel

Filed under: Cotton Feeling, Cotton at Home — Tags: , — admin @ 10:20 pm

Cotton towel said to be containing a lot of bacteria after several monthes use, and needs to be changed every three monthes recommended.  Cotton towel is kind of expensive if you care about the quality and feeling, a towel set for a family could cost you 100RMB, for a whole year, that would be 400RMB, that’s only counted based on one towel one time, but you at least need tow towels one time, since the face towel and the body towel had better been seperated. So the cost is high.

Why not cutting down the cost by washing the cotton towel once in a week, I mean, the careful wash using disinfector, but you still got other problems, it’s the feeling of the cotton towel, it becomes rough after long time daily use.

Cotton towel is something we would use everyday, our best friend. I don’t use the shower towel that can cover your whold body, because they are much more expensive. I wonder if there is other natural organic material that could replace cotton and can endure long time use.

July 27, 2009

How Often Do You Wash Your Cotton Bedding

Filed under: Cotton at Home — Tags: , , , — admin @ 9:25 pm

The frequency for me is two weeks. Don’t be lazy, they would be more dirty than you thought. The cotton sheet and bedding accompines us closely in the night for a long time, during which time, your body would emit a lot of toxic things and tiny unseen germ, it will be much better if you put them in hot sunshine every once in a while,but the case is usual not like this, there are often gray days without sunshine such as in rainy seanon or cold winter, then the bedding, if not cleaned after one monthes or even longer, it may be harmful for your health in a way unknown to you.

Two weeks is great, one month is ok too, according to your habits. I remember when I was living in school apartment, where the living condition is poor and damp, and I don’t quite change the sheet that often, so I got some skin problems at that time, but when everthing changed and I moved to better places and have good living habit, those problems are nonwhere to see.

So if you got skin problems, first check if you wash your sheet and cotton bedding in a required frequency.

July 21, 2009

Items Made of Cotton at Home

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cotton items at home

Look around you at home, you will find that you are living in a cotton world with many household items made of cotton. You are laying on the cotton pillow, wearing the cotton T-shirt, holding the cotton bear, sitting on the cotton bedding sheet, and I feel very comfortable about all this.

So items made of cotton are very common in your home, cotton industry must be a giant industry that hold a large market. The basic point is the Cotton fabric, that’s the basic cotton element made of all this together.

So do you know how cotton is grown and what is feels like pure cotton ? That’s a tricky question you never thought about, right? Cotton is very important in human life and planting cotton maybe a good way to be rich.

July 19, 2009

Cotton Bedding VS Silk Bedding

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Cotton bedding and silk bedding, if compared, is not a simple good or bad question. Silk bedding is out of the question the very wanted type of bedding by many people, but people may still end up buying cotton bedding since the their price is a lot more expensive and it’s hard to tell if it’s really good silk or not.

Cotton bedding have a more larger market share, it’s the most commonly used. But as to many health features, silk bedding is better. Silk could absorb your sweat, breath well itselves, keep warm in winter and keep cool in summer. Imagine how many silkworm has devasted themselves to made just one bedding sheet.

Cotton bedding could be dry in the sunshine for long time but silk bedding never endure hard sunshine. Be careful if you are using silk bedding, it’s fragile and need careful protection to keep a long time use.

If you are using the cotton bedding, remember to let them in the sun to kill the invisible bateria often, better every week, especially the pillow as I have talked about in my last post.

Cotton bedding and silk bedding, if your budget allows, have them both, and experience the difference yourselves.

July 16, 2009

Let Your Cotton Pillow Absorb Sunshine

Filed under: Cotton at Home — Tags: , — admin @ 9:19 pm

Every night you would have intimacy relationship with your pillow for several hours and you never know it may have a great influence in your health.  If you never bring them out to absorb enough sunshine to kill the bateria, they become full of mites or other tiny bateria to hurt your health and influence you in a way you don’t even notice.

So in the bright sunshine today in summer, bring them out in the drying place, don’t waste the sunshine. Then at night you can breethe the sunshine flavor and feels better touching them too. Our cotton pillow need the sunshine every once in a while, so don’t be lazy.

Today I bring them out after I wake up in the morning and tonight I would enjoy a better sleep I suppose. The rainly season has passed away so fast, the fierce sunshine returns again. It’s time to let your clothing or cotton bedding or pilow or inner wear out to absorb sunshine.

June 3, 2009

Can’t Live Without Cotton

Filed under: Cotton Friends, Cotton at Home — Tags: , , , — admin @ 8:23 pm

lost in cotton cushion world

You might not quite realize the fact that you really can’t live withou cotton. Look at the everyday clothing you wear, the towel you washing your face, the cushion you lay on, the cleaning cloth in your kithen, they are all made of cotton.

So there is so much I want to share with you about cotton in this blog later on. Can you feel cotton by your hand, someone in the apparel bussiness must can. Can you tell between pure cotton and partial cotton texitle in case be fooled by the seller ? That’s a very practial technique in daily life.

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