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Slip Into Eight Hours of Luxury per Night Organic cotton sheets provide a luxuriously healthy night’s sleep WORDS BY KAREN MEURER
After a health scare, HauteCoton founder Nimi
as they hand stitched coconut buttons onto
Kelloway started to take stalk of what she was
duvets covers. She is particular about keeping
putting in her body and on it. She changed her
the thread count of the silky sateen sheets to
eating habits to be more clean and then while
no more than 300. “People think that a higher
sitting in a nutrition class about organic farming
thread count means more luxurious sheets, but
vs. conventional farming, Kelloway made the
that’s wrong,” Kellowy says. “A higher thread
connection between food and natural textiles.
count means they have added unhealthy
The textile industry can be very toxic and she
synthetic micro fibres in between the cotton
learned that only 1% of the world's cotton is
fibres to make it feel more dense.”
grown using organic methods. That made her question where her clothes and sheets were
HauteCoton organic bedding is luxuriously
coming from and how they were made.
soft, which makes for a more healthy, restful, comfortable sleep. The natural breathable fibres
That is when Kelloway had her “Ah Ha!’ moment
allow you to stay cool in the summer and warm
and HauteCoton was born. She was determined
in the winter. The sheets come in Classic White
to provide a healthy alternative to conventional
and Au Naturale. The natural colour is made
cotton bedding. “After all, we spend eight hours
from un-dyed organic cotton, with no chemicals
a night in bed. Why would I want to sleep in the
or toxins used in the process. Along with sheets,
chemicals found in synthetic sheets — right?”
pillow covers, and duvet covers HauteCoton also carries pillows filled with natural wool covered
Kelloway travelled to India to research cotton
with their signature organic cotton.
farming and found an organic supplier with sustainable farming practices and fair working
When asked, “what does luxuria mean to you?”
conditions. She saw exactly how HauteCoton
Kelloway said “a good night’s sleep.”
bedding is made and talked with the sewists
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