How Safe Is Cotton?

Most parents only want the best for their kids. That means feeding them nutritious diets filled with organic fruits and vegetables. But what parents may not know is that the shirt, pants and socks they dress their kids in every day may contain more residual pesticides than any non-organic apple or carrot. Non-organic cotton uses more pesticides than any other single crop.

Five of the top nine pesticides used on cotton in the U.S. (cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite, and trifluralin) are known cancer-causing chemicals. Cotton is one of the most common materials used to make kid’s clothing, and though the toxins in the cotton won’t be ingested, it doesn’t mean a child is safe. The skin is the body’s largest organ and is just as susceptible to absorbing chemical as the mouth is to swallowing them. Parents should dress their children in organic kid’s clothing.

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