{"id":31375,"date":"2017-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.kalani.eu\/blog\/100-pure-organic-cotton-how-to-choose-a-certification-standard\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:01:59","slug":"100-pure-organic-cotton-how-to-choose-a-certification-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/blog\/100-pure-organic-cotton-how-to-choose-a-certification-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"100% Pure Organic Cotton  \u2013 How to choose a certification standard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How to choose a certification standard?<\/h3>\n<p>For the textile industry, which naturally concerns us, the requirements depend on the chosen certification\u2019s standard. Then, there are also obligatory requirements and those related to the brands. In terms of the standard requirements, Kalani has decided to work with GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard), which happens to be the strictest and most complete standard worldwide. It is currently managed in Germany and GOTS is uncompromising with the application of the following requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cotton farming which favours the standards of organic agriculture (the use of chemical products such as pesticides, insecticides and fertilizers is prohibited), which all standards require.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0No GMO seeds are allowed. What other standards of organic cotton don\u2019t require.<\/li>\n<li>A minimum of 70 to 90% (according to the fibre blends if present) of organic cotton in the finished product (Kalani uses 100% organic cotton in all of its products), which isn\u2019t obligatory with all standards.<\/li>\n<li>All the different stages and units of production, stock and distribution must respect satisfactory social conditions according to the rules imposed by the ILO (International Labour Organisation, a UN body), which is something the other standards don\u2019t require.<\/li>\n<li>The various stages and units of production, stock and distribution must respect the environment through rigorous controls of the paint, gas fumes, treatment of waste water and the recycling of waste. This is also something not all standards of organic cotton impose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore, Kalani has gone a step further in terms of the requirements it defined for itself. Kalani uses 100% organic cotton (GOTS certified) as well as 100% Fairtrade FLO-CERT certified cotton, so as to guarantee organic cotton farmers a \u201cpremium\u201d price, calculated by Fairtrade International as the correct price, regardless of the cotton exchange rate fluctuations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gots-logo_rgb_png.png\" alt=\"GOTS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, if you ask yourself why and who you\u2019re actually paying\u2026 Here is a small diagram which will help you understand, in full transparency, where your investment is actually going.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/transparence_des_prix.jpg\" alt=\"Price transparency\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to choose a certification standard? 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In terms of the standard requirements, Kalani has decided to work with GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard), which happens to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[318,307,362,1111,292],"class_list":["post-31375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-en","tag-certification-en","tag-cotton-en","tag-ethics-en","tag-gots-en","tag-organic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalani-home.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}