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Environmentally friendly

CottonSoft tissue is free of all chemical pesticides, fertilisers and bleach. These tissues are safe for use on sensitive skin and for removing make-up.

Every day thousands of square miles of the world's forests, perhaps the single most important resource needed to maintain global ecological balance, are destroyed in order to fulfil the ever-increasing demand for paper. In addition, intense chemical precessing and huge energy consumption is needed t turn the raw wood into the pulp necessary to make a 'soft' tissue.

Recycling paper may go some way towards helping the environment, but most recycled paper still contain significant amounts of wood pulp, and it takes extra chemicals and energy to remove all traces of inks, dyes and other contamination from the raw material, before it is suitable to be made into tissue.

By contrast, cotton is an annually renewable crop, which is harvested without damage to the environment and, because it does not have to be 'softened up' before turning into tissue, it can be put straight into the manufacturing process without prior chemical processing.

Cotton - better than recycled paper

CottonSoft is made only from 100% pure cotton linters, which are the short fibres of cotton discarded as waste during the manufacture of fabrics or cotton seed oil These are then recycled to produce paper. The cotton used to make CottonSoft is free of chemical pesticides, insecticides and fertilisers, and the tissues are bleach-free.

CottonSoft tissue is fully biodegradable and is safe for use with septic tanks.