Think Eco: What’s 100% organic?

Organic Boy: Our cotton fabric IS 100% certified organic cotton. Elastic, buttons, zips, embroidery– aren’t. These are normal and accepted processes by the organic powers that be. The beauty of when you hear ‘certified’ is you know it’s gone through a process to verify its standards.

Made in Australia

Here’s a list of the local people kept in local jobs:

Garments manufactured in 2 factories, Melbourne, Australia.

Labels made in Melbourne, Australia.

Screen printing is water based and all done in Melbourne, Australia.

Embroidery – Melbourne, Australia

Commercial laundry – Melbourne, Australia

Business cards and swing tickets – 100% post consumer recycled paper and printed with vegetable dye – Melbourne, Australia

Think Eco: Is your cotton grown in Australia? 

Organic Boy: When possible – yes. Most of our T shirts, long sleeve T’s and underwear are made from Australian grown organic cotton, we call this cotton gold because it is so rare to produce and special. As far as we know there is one organic cotton farmer in NSW, Australia but it’s not possible to always have cotton grown here as we don’t have the enormous amount of water / rainfall, that it takes to grow cotton. This is why we are so passionate about organic cotton, as it takes so much irrigation and water reserves to grow everyday cotton. When cotton is naturally unavailable here (no rainfall) our supplier purchases cotton on the open market. This could be from a variety of countries that have monsoonal rain and the natural elements we need to grow cotton without stealing precious water reserves in Australia. We love that we use what nature gives us instead of manmade mass production convenience.

Think Eco: Who makes your clothes?

Organic Boy: We believe in supporting local people in local jobs, here in Australia. We still love the support of Fair Trade because we wonder why it can cost as little as 40 cents for a human to make a t shirt, how much must they get paid? People all around us are driven by cheaper prices, how often we hear of people loving cheap brands because they look cute and all for $10! This comes at a cost so we support local for many reasons but one is that we know we pay fairly for the human work effort.

When we purchase cotton on the open market, this is largely from small farmers that pool together their resources to sell on that open market. The organic certification process ensures that farmers are paid fair wage for their work. Above all, organic cotton farmers don’t have the dangerous health threats in their daily lives. Remember, pesticides are known and proven to cause cancer. Ouch!