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What Is Organic Cotton? Organic Cotton Facts You Need to Know
More and more in the marketplace, consumers see a variety of cotton products across multiple product categories. In the last decade, we’ve seen a rise in products marketed as made with organic cotton....
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An In-Depth Look at Cotton Bales
It takes a lot of work and processing to bring raw, field cotton from the farmland to our homes, in its final form in a variety of products ranging from clothing and linens to nonwoven products like...
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Purified Cotton versus Mechanically Cleaned and Sterilized Cotton
When considering the type of cotton to be used in applications such as nonwovens going into hygiene products, there are several considerations including the use of purified cotton or mechanically...
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What Is a Natural Fiber?
In the world of fibers, certain terms are used loosely, especially in product marketing. The term “natural fiber” is such a term, and its meaning has been stretched in the last several years to include...
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The Advantage of Purified Cotton in Personal Care and Medical Products
It would certainly be nice if cotton came to us purified and ready to use, right out of the field. But this simply isn’t reality. Freshly-picked cotton has roughly 650,000 harmful colony-forming units...
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Uses of Cotton
Cotton has played an important role in human history ever since it was first used, which anthropologists date back to prehistoric times. The most widely used fiber in the world today, cotton is...
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Bleached Cotton Is Purified Cotton
Cotton does not come off the plant ready for commercial use. Rather, it must go through an intensive cleaning and purification process before it is suitable for us in nonwoven applications such as baby...
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The Evolution of Cotton – Part One
Cotton–there’s nothing quite like it. It’s soft, absorbent, and strong, and it gets stronger in conditions where other fibers wilt from the elements. While other fibers may be important, in the way...
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The Evolution of Cotton – Part Two
In part one of this series on the evolution of cotton, we explored how a fiber with origins traced to multiple ancient civilizations has firmly established itself as a global phenomenon, peerless in...
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Intrinsic Properties of Cotton: Performance
Cotton is the all-natural fiber of choice for the ages, going back to the Egyptians and other civilizations of the ancient world. As humankind has developed different needs and wants for fiber-built...
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