Why Bamboo?

Quite simply bamboo textiles are good for our skin (accepted by Allergy UK but we cannot afford the fee ) and good for the planet too.

The technical bit...

Our fabrics have been tested by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) and been found to be anti bacterial against MRSA and other serious pathogens.

It’s not that technical really, it just makes sense when you know the facts! No wonder bamboo textiles and fabric is becoming recognised as the wonder fibre of this century.

Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on the planet with some species growing at a rate of 3 feet per day. It requires no chemicals or assistance to grow, in fact it's a weed!

So, getting back to the point, sometime around the turn of the millennium, some clever people in China sat down together and decided to try turning bamboo into a fibre. Cotton, they presumed, might have had had its day. Cotton requires vast amounts of pesticide, fertiliser, irrigated water and sweated labour, even the organic stuff is water intensive. It uses around 20% of the world’s insecticides and 10% of the pesticides. It takes roughly one-third of a pound of chemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) to grow enough cotton for just one T-shirt. Not so with bamboo. It simply made sense. And lucky for us, in 2002 they succeeded in making a viable yarn out of bamboo fibre using a similar process to Rayon so our fabrics are partly made from a viscose fibre made from bamboo.

This is almost as much of an evolutionary and ecological leap forward as harnessing solar power, or wind power. Cotton is lightweight, breathable, cheap, takes dyes well, dries quickly – you name it, how could anything else be better than cotton? Well, bamboo viscose fabric is better than cotton. Yes, bamboo beats cotton on every count. Bamboo is more breathable than cotton, it’s more absorbent than cotton but it dries almost as quickly, *  it’s softer to the touch yet it is as durable as cotton, and growing bamboo is much more ecologically sustainable than cotton.  It’s wonderful and we love it.  We hope you do too.

*We have had our fabrics which our products are made from tested by the University of Central Lancashire School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences in their laboratories, but because according to Trading Standards Dept Camden Council say "carrying out studies in a laboratory setting where everything is staged is not a close enough replication to the real world for you to make the claims" we have had to remove the word __ from our website.

Our bamboo viscose blend products have a 91% - 99% inhibition rate for staphylococcus aureus bacteria (24 hours). Also 85% inhibition rate for candida albicans bacteria (24 hours). They retain these anti-bacterial qualities even after numerous washes.