Issue Details

POSSIBILITY OF MAKING SUSTAINABLE INFANTWEAR USING MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF NATURAL DYES

ABSTRACT

As the technology is growing day by day its adverse effects on our environment, health and economy are visible and emerging. Dyeing and printing industries played a major role in polluting our air, water and land by releasing harmful chemicals in solid, liquid and gaseous states. Infant and kids are sharing a large portion of our country and therefore it is important to protect their health by adapting sustainability at the earliest. From a decade the issue to protect the environment has become a burning issue by many environmentalists. Newborn babies and kids are tender and delicate and so are their skin. Everything needs to be checked and tested twice before applying or giving it to the infants and kids. Even their bathing water, milk, food, creme, shampoo, soap everything needs to be tested and checked but unfortunately, most of us do not follow this check process for their cloths and other textile products because we prefer them to be cost effective and economic, also attractive and with low maintenance. This is because, most of us think that the growth rate of infants is much higher than a full grown or teenager. Usually, we avoid buying sustainable clothes for infants and kids due to following reasons: 1. Rare availability of sustainable infant clothing and textile products in market using natural dyes. 2. Over priced products 3. Unawareness about sustainable clothing and textile products 4. Less attractive colors and designs. In todays world everyone has a same opinion about the design innovation and development that we should go-green and create sustainable products and designs. When it comes to infant wear clothing and products, it becomes important to choose it carefully as we choose other things for them but due to high price and rare availability of the sustainable or natural products, people shift their choices to cheaper products which are generally synthetics, man-made, harmful chemical based and of low qualities which further gives body rashes to babies and poor color fastness make the color bleed which is swallowed by babies as they have a habit of putting everything in their mouth. Baby products like bibs and soft toys are generally becomes the babys favorite chewing objects. Therefore, it is very important to make these products chemical free and use natural pigments or dyes to color them. To increase its scope and explore it in different ways, Idea is to understand the medicinal properties of natural dyes through lab testing and application & apply them to create innovative sustainable.

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