Français5 Good Reasons to Go with Natural Dye-
1. Save our planet
Natural dye comes from plants, vegetables, fruits and minerals. Unlike chemical dyes, they are 100% natural, biodegradable and they don’t leave a footprint on our beautiful planet! Moreover, a tank of natural dye is more economical because the same water can be used several times.
2. Take care of our health
Natural dyes have the advantage of being toxic free products. They do not bear any danger, neither for the health of the dyers, nor for the people who wear them.
Moreover we know that nearly 8000 chemicals are used to dye any basic outfit.
Little have people known that naturally dyed products have medicinal values for the users of the products. Like its hypoallergenic, it has antimicrobial properties and free from carcinogenic components.
3. Preserve an ancestral know-how
Natural dye has existed since the dawn of time. We can find it in all ages and cultures: from Tuareg to Egyptian antiquity passing through the first Indian civilization and Winking warriors.
It is a technical art, full of history, which has survived through ages and this is the reason why it is essential to preserve it.
4. Wear unique colours “Made in Nature”
Natural colours are unique. They offer inimitable results and unrivalled shades. So yes, they mature with time, fade a little and gradually take a different brightness: a little like humans actually. Honestly, have you never found strange for those colours that stay forever?
5. The various properties of plants
To finish, the tinctorial plants which the colours are from are mostly for medicines.
With direct contact with the skin, plants life saffron, tumeric or indigo affect our health.
For instance, indigo filters UV and pastel has healing properties. It is still very difficult to find scientific articles dealing with medicinal properties of natural dye.
So, if you know more about it, feel free to share with us your discoveries on contact@fibrebio.com.