Why Organic Cotton?

Why is buying organic cotton so important? Won’t the pesticides just wash out of non-organic cotton clothing and other fabrics? No, they don't, not completely. Pesticides are imbued in the cotton’s fibers from the very beginning of its life and they continue to be slowly released for years, exposing us to these toxic chemicals as we wear them and sleep on them. These include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and defoliants.