Question from Danielle
www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6347.cfm
This article sums it up on all cotton fabrics pretty wonderfully, what a “Must Have”reference!!!!!
I found this and remembered reading a dld123 blog about a woman who washed her jersey/flannel cotton sheets and smelled a horrible gasoline odor. This link explains about jersey cotton treatments as well as all the other terrible things done to cotton.
I decided to do a test and wash a set of jersey sheets (only ones we own) I had in my guest room by Wamsutta (made in China). They had only been laundered once before by my husband.
I didn’t expect what I found or the reaction I would have (of course I am very sensitive and my husband is not)-The odor was so strong on the wet sheets that I began to have a severe eye, nose and throat irritation. I was choking, and tearing for 2 hours after breathing in the fumes from the wet sheets.
I really sounded like Darth Fader breathing, or gasping I should say. The headache was amazing that came on afterward. The smell was of strong toxic fumes, strong fuel and chemicals. Needless to say the sheets have since been removed from our house! Note: It also took 3 rinses of my frontload washer with vinegar to remove the strong residual odor.
