| After you learned how commercially grown cotton | | | | accounts for nearly half the world's use of pesticides |
| ravages our imperiled Mother Earth, you bravely and | | | | and chemical fertilizers, it depletes the soil of almost all |
| boldly took your stand, ordering organic cotton and | | | | its essential nutrients, and one commercial cotton |
| hemp "pocket" diapers for your baby. Now, showing | | | | plantation easily can displace as many as fifty farming |
| both your integrity and your fine fashion sense, you | | | | families. Many cotton garments require chemical |
| enjoy an opportunity to take your stand again. | | | | washes and bleaching to achieve your favorite looks, |
| BellaBand proudly introduces "Bellaband Organic." It's | | | | sending hydrochloric acid into the water system and |
| the pioneering, trend-setting, must-have fashion | | | | killing fish, plants, and wildlife. Yes, all that for a silly little |
| essential you always have loved in a state-of-the-art | | | | accessory that encircles a woman's belly for thirty-six |
| organic cotton and spandex blend. | | | | weeks until her baby arrives, |
| In fact, when you insist on BellaBand organic cotton | | | | BellaBand, therefore, has scored another in its |
| bands, you contribute to saving the planet in two | | | | unprecedented series of major breakthroughs, |
| meaningful ways. Obviously, you support all-natural, | | | | because organic cotton preserves the Earth and |
| sustainable farming in the third world, and you | | | | protects the people on it. Most organic cotton grows |
| dramatically reduce soil contamination and water | | | | on family farms in the world's emerging nations, giving |
| pollution. Economists agree the laws of supply and | | | | them sustainable cash crops that raise them out of |
| demand have influenced production of and profit from | | | | poverty as they boost their countries' gross domestic |
| organic cotton, so your choice has worldwide impact. | | | | products. Organically grown and processed cotton |
| Just as importantly, though, most "new" maternity | | | | grew and thrived without chemicals, and it came to |
| clothes are still made from old-fashioned cotton. | | | | market without bleaching or chemical wash. In the |
| Wearing your own favorite clothes long into your | | | | skilled hands of BellaBand's designers and |
| pregnancy, you reduce demand for one of the world's | | | | seamstresses, soft and comfortable cotton becomes |
| most dangerous fabrics. Although you have heard | | | | a post-modern mom's favorite fashion essential and |
| cotton advertised as "the fabric of our lives," it has | | | | her powerful environmental statement, and, yes, all of |
| claimed many lives in Eastern Europe and Asia. | | | | that from a silly little accessory that cradles and |
| "What's the difference and what difference does it | | | | comforts a woman and her child for nine precious |
| make?" your un-pregnant, unitiated friends still want to | | | | months until the child debuts. |
| learn. Commercially grown cotton is controversial: it | | | | |