How to care for your new plant friend: Wash separate or with similar colours the first few times, gentle detergent, hand-wash or delicate cycle, shade dry, low heat, love often.
Why: These are protein or cellulose fibers (like hair or plant cell walls). Alkaline detergents, hot water, and rough handling break those structures down. Treat them kindly and they’ll love your skin back.
Most conventional clothing is treated with chemical finishes, often including formaldehyde-based resins and hormone-disrupting agents, to create a wrinkle-resistant or “easy care” finish. These substances are designed to stiffen fibres and lock fabric into shape, but they can be irritating to the skin and persistent in the environment.
We intentionally do not use these harsh chemical treatments. As a result, our garments may develop soft creases or folds when packed in a suitcase or stored rolled in a drawer. This is a normal and healthy characteristic of untreated, natural fibres.
To refresh your garment, we recommend using a handheld steamer to gently release folds, then hanging the piece to rest. This is quick, easy, and helps maintain the fabric’s natural drape and longevity.
Our pieces are dyed using natural and low-impact methods. Because we refuse to use harsh chemical fixatives, some colours may gently release excess dye in the first few washes. This is normal, expected, and a sign that the fabric has not been chemically sealed.
What to do:
🐛Wash with similar colours or separately for the first few washes
🐝 Cold water only
🦋 If colour release continues, hand-washing is best
🦎 Avoid soaking
🪲 Always dry in shade
In conventional fashion, colour bleeding is prevented using aggressive chemical binders and fixatives. These chemicals lock dye in place quickly, but they also damage fibres, irritate skin, pollute waterways, and shorten the life of the garment.
For us, being chemical-free is non-negotiable. That means these garments ask for a little more care in the beginning. In return, the fibres stay alive, breathable, skin-safe, and strong. With gentle washing and time, colours stabilise naturally and the garment only gets better with age.
This is slow clothing.
This is fair fashion, not fast fashion.
Made to last years, not seasons.
Looking after your clothes means fewer replacements, less waste, and a piece you can genuinely keep for life.
Caring for natural fabrics is more than laundry — it’s a ritual.
Put on your favourite podcast or some gentle music. Hand-wash each piece with love, make yourself a cup of tea, and let the clothes hang in the shade while you sit outside and soak your feet in salt water. When dry, use a handheld steamer to smooth away lines, as if breathing new life into the cloth.
These little rituals connect us back to the old ways — of treating garments as companions, not disposables. In caring for them with patience, we build meaning, slow down, and become part of a community that honours both nature and craft.
Most dry-cleaning uses strong solvents that aren’t skin or planet-friendly. Your pieces are designed for home care: cool water + gentle detergent. If you must dry-clean (special occasion silk), request wet-cleaning or hydrocarbon/CO₂ methods and no fragrance.
Wash temperature: Cold to 30 °C (86 °F) max.
Detergent: pH-neutral, enzyme-free; no bleach, no optical brighteners, no fabric softener.
Cycle: Hand-wash or machine “Delicate/Hand-wash” in a mesh bag; low spin.
Drying: Reshape and dry in shade. Avoid long, direct sun — especially for silks and plant-based “silks” (lotus).
Ironing/steam: Use low heat with a press cloth; steam from the inside if needed.
Hardware/elastic: Avoid ironing over natural rubber elastic; high heat shortens its life.
Oils/butter/ghee: Dab with a drop of mild dish soap in cool water; rinse; then full gentle wash.
Sweat/salt: Rinse promptly; gentle wash.
Plant/color foods (turmeric, beet, tea): Rinse cool ASAP; dab mild soap; avoid sun until stain is gone (sun can set it).
Makeup/mineral sunscreen: Pre-treat with mild soap; avoid harsh solvents on silk.
Wash: Cool hand-wash (20–30 °C) with silk-safe, pH-neutral detergent. Do not soak.
Dry: Press in a towel; dry flat or on a padded hanger in shade.
Iron: Low heat/steam inside-out; no direct perfume/deo on fabric.
Why: Silk is a protein fiber; alkalinity & high heat weaken it.
Wash: Cold, gentle hand-wash or machine delicate in a mesh bag. Minimal agitation.
Dry: Reshape; dry in shade.
Iron: Low heat iron with a press cloth or use a garment steamer.
Why: Lotus is a cellulose filament — beautiful, breathable, but not a fan of rough spins or hot sun.
Wash: Cold delicate; low spin.
Dry: Hang in shade; smooth seams by hand.
Iron: Medium-low with press cloth.
Why: Strong cellulose fiber but can stiffen with heat; prefers a calm wash.
Wash: Cold (up to 30 °C).
Dry: Line dry preferred; tumble low only if necessary. Expect 2–3% natural shrinkage.
Iron: Medium if needed.
Why: Long-staple cotton is durable, but low heat preserves color & hand-feel.