What is pure cotton? A search on Baidu found that pure cotton means pure cotton with a cotton content of more than 75%, so many people accept this statement with peace of mind. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. Pure cotton is actually 100% cotton. There is no difference between the two concepts. We Don’t be confused by the businessman’s concepts.
Recently studied the “National Standard of the People’s Republic of China” (GB/T 29862-2013), which clearly stipulates the labeling of textile fiber content. Labeling method of fiber content:
Excerpted from the “National Standard of the People’s Republic of China” (GB/T 29862-2013)
As a simple illustration, if a product only contains cotton fiber, Then it can be marked as: 100% cotton, pure cotton, 100% cotton
So, pure cotton is 100% cotton, 100% cotton is pure cotton, there is no difference between 75% cotton content and 100% cotton content!
After seeing this, do you think that the merchants are too smart and play with the concepts so that us parents always have to struggle for a long time every time we buy clothes for our children.
In addition, there is a lot of knowledge about cotton, and the merchants will not tell you. In addition to not knowing that pure cotton is pure cotton, we often fall into other misunderstandings about cotton: such as pure cotton is the best and safest, pure cotton is comfortable to wear, etc.
Pure cotton is the best and safest?
Even if pure cotton clothing is labeled as 100% cotton, it is difficult for the cotton content to reach 100%, and merchants will not make clothes with 100% cotton content, because it is very easy to wrinkle, and it will not be good after wearing it once. It will easily become wrinkled when stored. Generally speaking, a piece of pure cotton clothing with a cotton content of more than 95% is considered very good, but it is currently difficult to find it on the market. Pure cotton is prone to wrinkles and shrinkage, and businesses generally add other substances such as softeners during the production process to make them wrinkle-free and shrink-resistant. If inferior substances are used, there is no guarantee that pure cotton clothing is the safest and healthiest.
In addition, to eliminate the possibility of adding these substances, businesses can make clothing with 100% cotton content, but they cannot guarantee its health and safety. Because from the perspective of cotton, the raw material of pure cotton clothing, many media reports say that cotton uses the most pesticides among crops. A large amount of pesticides are used in the entire cotton planting process. The amount of pesticide residues in good cotton will be controlled within the limit allowed by the country. Within the range, it is difficult to say whether the pesticide residues of bad cotton will exceed the standard. In addition, after cotton is woven into clothing, pure cotton clothing needs to be dyed in order to meet the needs of different people for colors and patterns. Because there are grease and wax substances on the surface of cotton fibers, wax removers need to be used to remove them before dyeing in order to dye them evenly. It is also difficult to judge whether wax removers are harmful to human health.
Is pure cotton comfortable to wear?
Many people, especially uncles and aunts of the older generation, are accustomed to choosing pure cotton when buying clothes, because pure cotton fabrics are indeed soft, comfortable and warm when the human body does not sweat less. However, After sweating a lot, we will find that the pure cotton quilt sticks to the body after being wet with sweat, making people feel uncomfortable, and it is easy to catch a cold in the cold season.
