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Garment Dye Dolphin Hem Hot Short by Los Angeles Apparel. Made of 95% cotton, 5% elastane. Toxome scores it 75/100 for fiber health.
95% cotton, 5% elastane
The Garment Dye Dolphin Hem Hot Short is 95% cotton, 5% elastane. Cotton is the soft everyday plant fiber, but conventionally grown with heavy pesticides. Elastane is the stretch plastic blended into almost everything, identical to spandex. That composition is what Toxome scores, and it earns 75 out of 100 on the fiber scale, where 100 is cleanest.
It is 95% cotton, blended with 5% elastane.
Cotton is the soft everyday plant fiber, but conventionally grown with heavy pesticides. Toxome rates every fiber on what it does to the body of the person wearing it, and publishes the reasoning rather than a badge. The score covers the fiber, not the dyes and finishes a mill adds later.
Toxome reads each garment's fiber composition and scores it on what that fiber does to your body, not on a brand's sustainability marketing. A higher score means a cleaner fiber. Composition is taken from what the brand publishes, so the score reflects the label rather than our opinion of it.