OEcotextiles

Indulgent yet responsible fabrics

Toxic Baby

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

Since I’ve managed to figure out how to embed videos in the blog, I can’t seem to help showing you some of the most electrifying clips I’ve seen.  This is one of them – please watch it! Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect …

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What are endocrine disruptors?

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

Many chemicals used in textile processing – and elsewhere in consumer products – have been identified as “endocrine disruptors”.  I never paid too much attention to “endocrine disruptors” because it didn’t sound too dire to me – I preferred to stick to something like “carcinogens” because I knew those caused cancer.   I knew that endocrine …

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