Cotton clothing from China contains 400 times the recommended 'safe' levels of formaldehyde as issued by the WHO. Not to mention the fact that cotton is treated with bleach, dyes, moth repellants, fire retardents, anti-crease agents etc etc etc. We definitely go for organic whenever possible!
I dont buy the 'formaldehyde is naturally occuring therefore its safe' thing. All chemicals exist somewhere, that doesnt mean its good for us to be exposed to them in high doses. Formaldehyde is a poison to humans and animals. Just cause we're not getting enough to kill us in our clothes, doesnt mean its harmless.
If you can colour cotton as it is growing on the plant, then I dont see how they can suggest no presticide/herbicide residue is left since the plant is literally being made from what it absorbs. I personally dont believe that most of the crap that is put on to cotton (whether when growing or processing) washes out of it. In fact some of them are designed to stay on. If the fabric still has the original colour in it that it came with, then why would any of the other stuff not be there also? I have even read that people's towels contain their DNA and it doesnt wash out, but Im not sure of the validity of it.
But I am finding it is pretty impossible to avoid all the harmful crap around us!
Even if we lived in a perfect organic home with not one unpure thing, we would still have to breathe in the cigarrete smoke of the kind people sitting smoking outside the local shopping centre 
You cant avoid everything, you can only do your best 
I dont buy the 'formaldehyde is naturally occuring therefore its safe' thing. All chemicals exist somewhere, that doesnt mean its good for us to be exposed to them in high doses. Formaldehyde is a poison to humans and animals. Just cause we're not getting enough to kill us in our clothes, doesnt mean its harmless.
If you can colour cotton as it is growing on the plant, then I dont see how they can suggest no presticide/herbicide residue is left since the plant is literally being made from what it absorbs. I personally dont believe that most of the crap that is put on to cotton (whether when growing or processing) washes out of it. In fact some of them are designed to stay on. If the fabric still has the original colour in it that it came with, then why would any of the other stuff not be there also? I have even read that people's towels contain their DNA and it doesnt wash out, but Im not sure of the validity of it.
But I am finding it is pretty impossible to avoid all the harmful crap around us!
Even if we lived in a perfect organic home with not one unpure thing, we would still have to breathe in the cigarrete smoke of the kind people sitting smoking outside the local shopping centre You cant avoid everything, you can only do your best 
