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Ethical Fashion: From Sex Worker to Seamstress
Today, I came across this short documentary on ethical fashion on YouTube. It brought me to tears in the realization that this is why Salts Clothing has the mission it does. We choose ethical manufacturing, eco friendly choices and giving back to empower women into business for themselves. The hardships faced by workers around the World as they fight for a livable wage and safe conditions as our country consumes cheap fast fashion is a sad commentary on our collective social responsibility. I am honoured to be able to use my gifts for clothing design to create some change in...
The Eco Fashion Workshop
What are we making for you? The Workshop is the place where new Eco Fashion styles and designs come to life. Do you want to be the first to know when new organic clothing styles are released? Click through to The Workshop section of our online store and all the new designs are there. You can Pre Order workshop designs at a 20% discount as well! This helps us schedule what we are making and be more efficient with our productions. New designs are loaded regularly to The Workshop section so please check back there often. Once a design has reached...
Trade up your Workout clothing for Organic Fitness Wear?
Have you ever wondered about the environmental footprint of your work out clothes? As it turns out the common fabrics Nylon and Polyester that are used in most workout wear are tough on our Mother Earth. To make Nylon your need to create Nitrous Oxide. Nitrous Oxide unfortunately is 310 times more potent of a green house gas then Carbon Dioxide. Who would have thought that your workout Pants would be such a polluter. Polyester demands huge amounts of water and lubricants to make plus it is made from Petroleum. Both of these fabrics use an incredible amount of energy...
Eco Fashion and Organic Clothing FAQ.
Here at Salts we get a lot of questions about organic clothing and sustainable Eco Fashion through our website and I wanted to take a moment to answer a few of the most frequent Eco Fashion questions here. #1. Whats so terrible about normal fabrics? Why switch to Eco Friendly clothing? Regular Cotton uses a lot of pesticides and herbicides which poison the ocean, near by streams and the land in general. When we use organic cotton we don’t support the use of chemicals in crop production. Other textiles like polyester are made from petroleum which is not sustainable to...