Organic clothing

Organic clothing is clothing made from materials raised or grown in compliance with organic agricultural standards^{[citation needed]}. Organic clothing uses cotton, jute, silk, ramie, or wool.^[1] Retailers charge more for organic clothing because such the material used are free from chemicals or genetically modified seeds.^[2]
Alternative terms are organic fashion, organic cloths.

 Benefits

Authentic organic fabrics and clothing can help the environment in a number of ways, such as:^[3]

• Manufacture of chemicals is not required
• Chemical residues are not entered accidentally into the environment
• Humans and animals are not exposed to chemicals
• When the fabric is finished with chemicals are not returned to the earth in landfill, or enter into recycling process.

Cotton covers 2.5% of the world's cultivated land yet uses 16% of the world's insecticides, more than any other single major crop. ^[4] It can take almost a 1/3 pound of synthetic fertilizers to grow one pound of raw cotton in the US, and it takes just under one pound of raw cotton to make one t-shirt. ^[5]