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Organic Cotton (Organic Cotton), also known as ecological cotton, is a kind of pure cotton, it refers to get organic certification, from seed selection to planting to textile all organic way of cotton.
It and the difference between pure cotton, mainly in the following four areas:
Organic cotton is organic certification, while the ordinary cotton is not, which is the biggest difference between the two. Currently on the market mainstream certification methods are GOTS certification mark or Chinese organic product logo and organic code.
Organic cotton seeds must be non-genetically modified, while pure cotton in order to increase production and reduce damage often use genetically modified seeds.
Organic cotton planting soil requirements are very high, can not use pesticides and chemical fertilizers; traditional cotton on the need to use aldicarb, parathion, methamidophos and other insecticides. Organic cotton picking also requires manual operation, to avoid fuel, oil pollution of the crop.
Organic cotton in the process of using biological enzymes, starch and other natural additives for degreasing and sizing, the use of pure natural vegetable dyes or after testing and certification of environmentally friendly dyes.
Some clothes are printed with "100% organic cotton manufacturing", but there is no GOTS certification mark or Chinese organic product logo and organic code. This product, perhaps its spinning, raw materials are used organic cotton, but its fabric production, printing and dyeing, garment processing, are still conventional products in the way.
Due to the high production requirements, low production, the price of organic cotton is much more expensive than ordinary cotton, depending on the count, whether it is colored cotton and other factors, prices vary, generally quoted between 30-100 yuan, while ordinary cotton fabric, the price is more than 10 yuan or less.