
Everyday Bralette
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About
A wireless everyday bralette in 70% GOTS organic cotton and 23% SeaCell lyocell, in terra cotta. Same fabric as the briefs, which is the point: a bra sits against the chest for most of the waking day, and this one gets its shape from the cut rather than from an underwire and a band of synthetic elastic.
Materials
GOTS Certified Organic Cotton 70%, SeaCell (Icelandic Seaweed & Eucalyptus Lyocell) 23%, ROICA V550 clean stretch 7%
What the brand names mean
Trademarks on a label describe the fiber, not your exposure. Here is what each one is and what it does not cover. None of it moves the score.
The only stretch fiber carrying a Cradle to Cradle Material Health Gold certificate, which screens the full chemical inventory for carcinogens and reproductive toxicants. That aims at the real problem with spandex on skin: leftover diisocyanates from making it, which are what cause stretch-fabric rashes.
It is still polyurethane. It still sheds plastic microfibers, and the certificate does not cover shedding. Around 35 percent breaks down in 270 days under industrial composting, and Asahi Kasei says full degradation has never been verified, so treat biodegradable stretch as marketing.
Lyocell with ground Icelandic seaweed mixed in before spinning. It scores well because it is lyocell, made in the closed loop that recaptures over 99 percent of a non-toxic solvent.
