What makes Bamboo so different from other fibers/fabrics?

Better for you

• Fabric made from bamboo is incredibly soft
• Bamboo fabric is smooth and luxuriously comfortable
• ‘Bamboo Dry’ – absorbs and evaporates sweat in a split second. It doesn’t stick to the skin. Its extraordinary natural breathability keeps you comfortable and dry for longer.
• ‘Bamboo Thermo-control’ – bamboo fabric is highly breathable in hot weather and also keeps you significantly warmer in the cold. Keeping you more comfortable in all temperatures - ‘Air conditioned clothing’
• ‘Bamboo Fresh’ – bamboo is antibacterial, forever. By killing almost all bacteria, bamboo stays fresher and odor free for longer is more hygienic and healthier.
• Bamboo clothing is also anti static, so it sits very well next to your skin, not clinging to it. It's also UV protective (it cuts out 98% of harmful UV rays) and anti fungal, so it's just better, whether it's on you in the Alps or stuffed at the bottom of your bag for days on end.
• For sensitive or allergy prone skin, bamboo is perfect, for several reasons listed more fully below.

Better for the environment

• Bamboo is 100% naturally grown, without assistance from man. Our bamboo is 100% sustainable
• Bamboo thrives naturally without using any pesticides or fertilizers
• Bamboo fibre is 100% biodegradable
• As the fastest growing plant in the world, bamboo grows to its maximum height in about 3 months and reaches maturity in 3-4 years. It spreads rapidly across large areas. Because of this, bamboo is known to improve soil quality in degraded and eroded areas of land.
• As a grass, bamboo is cut, not uprooted, also helping soil stability. Bamboo also can grow on hill slopes where nothing else is viable.
• The yield (i.e. the amount of product) you get from an acre of bamboo is 10 times greater than the yield you get from cotton. In an age where land use is under enormous pressure this is huge.
• The water requirement for bamboo is minute, mainly just from what falls. As opposed to cotton, whose water requirement per shirt's-worth is huge.
• If organic clothing made from bamboo becomes popular, it means more bamboo plantations, which means more photosynthesis and less greenhouse gas. “The greatest challenge facing mankind” would get just a little easier.

In contrast...

• Synthetic performance fabrics are made from petrochemicals, a non-renewable fossil fuel. They go to make clothes which get smelly really quickly.
• Organic clothing made from bamboo is nature's answer to our needs for everyday fabric, in an environmentally sustainable form. It's just our luck that it's so much better as well!

Our Production and where SokJok Inc. wants its company to grow:

We don't like anyone being abused and it's definitely not going to happen on our watch. Both our responsibility and our partners' role in the community are important to us. Our factory also has voluntary community initiatives, pays almost twice the going rate and offers private workforce incentives to all workers and families. This combination is highly unusual. The workforce is stable and loyal, with very low staff turnover.