Fabric Purification Process

Unlike all other cotton underwear available in the market. Cottonique’s unique fabric utilizes an innovative, hydro-pressure wash process. This results in a pure, clean, unadulterated cotton fabric – without any potentially harmful dye or bleach chemicals, color enhancing compounds or softening additives normally found in other cotton underwear that could cause allergies or skin irritation. The resulting fabric is pure, soft, maintains the off-white shade of natural cotton and enables optimum absorbency. The fabric then goes through a PH balancing process to neutralize and balance acidic levels to PH 5.5 – 6. This helps to prevent skin contact with unbalanced alkalinity (one of the most common causes of skin irritation) To control progressive and relaxation shrinkage normally associated with cotton fabric, Cottonique’s fabric undergoes another unique Hydro-thermal compacting process [a purely mechanical process simply using heat and water]. This ensures a dimensionally stable shrinkage controlled fabric without using potentially harmful resin chemicals commonly used by other underwear brands to control shrinkage

COTTON FIBER: Organic cotton , grown and harvested without the use of pesticides
FABRIC COLOR: Natural white (unbleached & un-dyed)

PROCESS	PURPOSE	ADVANTAGE
HYDRO-PRESSURE WASH	To purify the fabric by extracting impurities, airborne pollutants and potentially harmful minerals from the cotton fibers This process also eliminates the need for dyeing or bleaching thereby avoiding the use of harmful dye or bleach chemicals, color enhancing compounds or softening additives	Results in a pure, clean, unadulterated cotton fabric – without any potentially harmful dye or bleach chemicals, color enhancing compounds or softening additives normally found in other cotton underwear that could cause allergies or skin irritation.
PH - BALANCING	To neutralize and balance acidic levels to PH 5.5 – 6	A balanced acidic level of the fabric that conforms to the PH 5.5 – 6 level of skin perspiration
HYDRO-THERMAL COMPACTING PROCESS [a purely mechanical process using simple heat and water]	To control fabric shrinkage without the use of harmful resins or chemicals commonly used by other underwear brands to control shrinkage	This ensures a dimensionally stable shrinkage controlled fabric which does not contain any form of potentially harmful resin (formaldehyde) residues.