Eco-Friendly Cotton Facial Rounds

• Set of 12 eco-friendly cotton rounds are a great alternative to disposable cotton wool balls/pads and facial/baby wipes and make fantastic reusable make-up remover pads.

• Handmade from up-cycled brushed cotton, soft yet exfoliating.

• They come in limited colour ways as each one is re-worked from Somali cotton dresses and scarves.

• Each round has 4 layers for effective absorbency.

• They are approx. 7.5cm / 7.5cm and the edges are double machine sewn for durability.

  Washing Instructions:

• Machine wash at 40 degrees with like colours or hand wash in warm water with Batula & Co soap rinse well. They can be machine dried or left to dry naturally.

• Our Eco-friendly Cotton Rounds come with a small wash bag to wash a few together, so they don’t get lost in your washing machine.

• The up-cycled cotton has been pre-washed so there should be minimal shrinkage.

  The Dark Side of Facial/Baby Wipes and Cotton Wool Pads

  Cotton Wool Pads and Balls

• Farming cotton makes a huge impact on the environment, especially when its not organically produced.

• Chemicals from its production pollute rivers, damage local wildlife and severely impacts on our ecosystems.

• Huge volumes of water are needed to produce conventional cotton. The size of an average t-shirt can take more than 20,000 litres of water in its production.

• Water is irrigated from the surrounding areas which can cause a loss of natural habitats for plants, birds, animals and fish.

• Included in this destructive cycle are harmful pesticides (if the cotton is not 100% organic).

  Finally the cotton wool pads/balls are NOT recyclable and NOT flushable as they expand and cause blockages in our sewage systems!

  Facial/Baby Wipes

• Soaked with drying chemicals and alcohol they strip your skin of its natural oils and disrupt it natural PH balance weakening the skins Acid Mantle and reducing its protection.

• The pressure required to remover mascara and lipstick from your eyes and lips, delicate areas of your skin encourages the aging process.

• They are also NOT flushable or recyclable and don’t disintegrate in sewage causing blockages called ‘Fatbergs’, one recently found under the streets of London, 130 tons of wipes!

• If they reach our seas they can be consumed by sea life and are as destructive as micro-beads which have now been banned.

• They are said to hang around for up to 500 years in our ecosystem, just as bad as plastic bottles.