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If you wear cotton clothes - and since approximately half of all textiles are cotton, odds are you do - you should be opting for organic cotton when and if you can.
Why? Because organic cotton is an important win-win-win: better for you, better for the environment, and better for the people that make the sheets you sleep on and the T-shirts you wear. It doesn't utilize pesticides or other harmful chemicals, requires far less water to produce, and organic growing systems often help maintain soil fertility and encourage biologically diverse agriculture - replacing systems that typically heavily exhaust and degrade the soil. Ultimately, it helps remove concerns about trace carcinogens in your clothes and supply chain, conserves energy, provides safer and more sustainable livelihoods, and preserves the environment - all without changing the quality of said sheets and T-shirts.
If your roadblock to buying organic cotton is not knowing where to find it, check out eight of the leading options below. Many are GOTS-certified or highlighted by the Textile Exchange - a global non-profit that works to drive sustainable change in the industry - as companies either already at a 100% organic cotton supply chain or making valuable strides towards one.
Find 8 leading retail companies using organic cotton in their supply chain in 2019:
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