love your body
love your earth
Renew your life, renew your body make a commitment to yourself and your earth. Every product that you buy at BODY is sustainable, organic, and fair-trade. It is our goal to help sustain the earth, as well as educate about what it means and what can be done.
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Environmental Sustainability - Not consuming all the resources we have today faster then the earth can replenish them for tomorrow. Fair trade - Workers are paid a fair wage to enable them to maintain a standard of living and work in an environment that is not dangerous to their health.
Organic - There are no pesticides or chemicals on the food or the clothes. Workers producing the products are not working in hazardous health conditions.
Eco-fiber - one type of eco-fiber is an innovative blend of cotton and bamboo fibers offers a natural alternative to synthetic blends by naturally providing performance benefits like softness, breathability, and inhibiting the growth of bacteria. Eco-fiber can also be a blend of recycled plastics, often referred to as PET.
Hemp - Hemp is a durable, breathable comfortable fabric similar to linen but softer. It is also UV resistant. Our hemp is of the highest quality and strength. It is machine washable as well.
Pollutants and harsh chemicals that are not necessary in clothing production erode the earth everyday.
Conventional cotton cultivation inflicts a heavy environmental toll. It takes 1/3 of a pound of chemical pesticides to produce one conventional cotton T-shirt.
Last year, in the U.S. alone, over 84 million pounds of toxic pesticides were sprayed on conventional cotton fields.
60% of the cotton plant is disposed of as animal feed and cotton seed oil.
Although cotton represents less than 3% of the worlds agriculture, it accounts for over 25% of the worlds insecticide use and over 10% of the worlds pesticides.
Chemicals do not wash off non-organic fibers anymore than chemicals wash off non-organic foods. The pesticides are in the soil and thus, in the root of the plant.
Cotton pesticides can enter the human food chain via cotton seed oil used in processed foods. The meat and dairy products from cows fed cottonseed meal, trash from cotton gins and cotton straw may also contain pesticides that were applied to cotton.
Eighty-four million pounds of pesticides were sprayed on the 14.4 million acres of conventional cotton grown in the U.S. in 2000 (5.85 pounds/acre), ranking cotton second behind corn in total amount of pesticides sprayed.
Over 2.03 billion pounds of synthetic fertilizers were applied to
conventional cotton the same year (142 pounds/acre), making cotton the fourth most heavily fertilized crop behind corn, winter wheat, and
soybeans.
The Environmental Protection Agency considers seven of the top 15 pesticides used on cotton in 2000 in the United States as “possible,” “likely,” “probable,” or “known” human carcinogens (acephate, dichloropropene, diuron, fluometuron, pendimethalin, tribufos, and trifluralin).
