All our yummy scrummy clothes are made from 100% Organic Cotton, apart from our tights which have a little elastane added to stop them from falling down around the ankles in Nora Batty style!

Frugi's clothes are certified to Global Organic Textile Standard by Control Union, previously known as SKAL. This means that our clothes meet the strict set of criteria that ensures that the cotton is organic as well as ethical in terms of social standards covering child labour, wages etc.

This is something that is really important to us and we've worked really hard to make sure that all the people involved in making Frugi's clothes get not just a fair deal, but a good deal. We don't want children to be working in a sweatshop all day and night so that our own children can wear nice clothes. 

So...all the cotton used in our products comes from a Fair Trade supplier (a co-operative of 200 cotton farmers that we have worked with since we emerged in the world as Cut4Cloth over four years ago) which has been certified by the Fair Trade Labelling Organisation (FLO). This means that the farmers get a Fair Trade premium price as well as a higher premium for being organic from us.

The factory where our clothes are made is a bastion of good practice. All the employees are over 19 years old, and they are paid a fixed salary (not a measly price per piece) and work decent hours (48 hours). AND....the employees are free to join a union and the factory provides a GP each week for the employees to bring their families to free of charge as well as health insurance. It really is a great place and because of all this they've gained the prestigious Social Accountability 8000 Standard.

This is something that we hold very close to our hearts here on Planet Frugi. We're a member of 1% For The Planet, a global alliance of companies that donate 1% of their sales turnover to grass-roots charities. Even if we don't make a profit.

We're currently supporting two fantastic projects through 1% FTP - both of which are very important to us for different reasons. The Cetacaen Bycatch Evidence Evaluation Project (BEEP) is all about training volunteers to examine the bodies of stranded mammals - this is so important in playing a vital part in determining how and why strandings occur and helping us humans find a way to prevent such tragedies in the future.

Pesticide Action Network UK (PanUK) is the other charity we support through 1% FTP - it's "Growing Hope" project in Benin, West Africa, is doing incredible things in the world of cotton farming as it examines ways of using locally sourced food sprays as a way of encouraging friendly bugs to the cotton fields to predate on the unfriendly pests! This ground-breaking research is really important if we are to decrease the use of the nasty pesticides that are such a threat to the farmers and their families.

Ethical Consumer Magazine has recently completed an in-depth survey of clothing companies which make green claims. Frugi was up there at the top of the list, setting us apart from the "greenwash".