Has anyone tried bamboo sheets yet?
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free skin care · Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:57 pm

It's high time for me to buy some new sheets, and I've been reading a lot of great things about these new bamboo bed sheets---- they are supposedly ultra soft and luxurious. Has anyone here actually used them? What's the verdict?

free skin care · Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:54 pm

Manslayer, I've only tried the bamboo towels from Gaiam, I think it was, and I really liked them very much. They are supposed to be immune from that awful smell that towels often get. Haven't any sheets yet, but hope to try them next time.

free skin care · Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:21 pm

No sheets, but I'm sitting here in my bamboo sweatpants. They are the softest things ever. I imagine he sheets are great -- where did you find them?

free skin care · Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:25 pm

This is not an answer to your question,yogi, but now I think I got my towels at softsurroundings.com and I think they have the sheets, too. though I don't know where Liz found hers. they seem to be more readily available nowadays.

free skin care · Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:41 pm

existential lady wrote:

This is not an answer to your question,yogi, but now I think I got my towels at softsurroundings.com and I think they have the sheets, too. though I don't know where Liz found hers. they seem to be more readily available nowadays.

How long have you had them? Are they wearing well? I love bamboo -- it's great stuff.

Sorry Liz -- slight hijack.

free skin care · Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:48 pm

I've had the towels at least 6 months and was away on a Fellowship, so only had two sets of towels. They got washed quite often and look like new and are ever so soft.
I think I'll get more of them when I need new towels.

Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:40 am

we have a set of bamboo sheets and

them! they are super soft and have held up very well in the wash.

free skin care · Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:48 pm

I have not tried sheets but DH bought me a pair of bamboo PJ's last year and they are really soft, I love them.

free skin care · Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:26 am

I haven't tried the bamboo sheets yet (too expensive) but I have one bamboo sleep shirt and one pair of bamboo lounge pants. They are soooo soft, comfortable and dry much more quickly than cotton. I love them!

free skin care · Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:25 pm

my bamboo socks are very soft and do not hold a bad smell especially after a day in hot shoes BUT, they wear holes in them very easily from the friction points between feet and shoes. My socks are only a few months old and already i've had to toss several because of the large holes that appear over the tops of all my toes!!!!

free skin care · Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:19 pm

I have a bamboo t-shirt. Bamboo fabric is naturally anti-microbial and wicks away moisture well.
Perfect for summertime sheets!

free skin care · Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:18 pm

I got bamboo underwear! So soft and breathable, very comfortable.

free skin care · Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:52 pm

For those who might care, bamboo is not as "green" or environmentally friendly as you might think. The chemicals and processing it takes to make bamboo usable are... not good.

I am a fiber artist and one of my clients is a green boutique. They have stopped selling all bamboo fabric items, after researching them a bit.

Same with rayon, by the way. Those who love the idea of a fiber made from cellulose need to know that the process that makes the cellulose pulp usable is toxic and very ungreen.

BUT if you're interested primarily in the softness factor, then... the above reviews speak for themselves. :->

free skin care · Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:25 am

Sidda -

Thank you for the info, I didn't know that.
Is anyone processing bamboo in a cleaner way? Do you think that there will be an alternative to the current method soon? TIA

free skin care · Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:01 am

Sidda wrote:

For those who might care, bamboo is not as "green" or environmentally friendly as you might think. The chemicals and processing it takes to make bamboo usable are... not good.

I am a fiber artist and one of my clients is a green boutique. They have stopped selling all bamboo fabric items, after researching them a bit.

Same with rayon, by the way. Those who love the idea of a fiber made from cellulose need to know that the process that makes the cellulose pulp usable is toxic and very ungreen.

BUT if you're interested primarily in the softness factor, then... the above reviews speak for themselves. :->

Sidda, like Yogi, I'm very interested in knowing if anyone is working on alternative methods for bamboo so it would be more "green." In the meantime, do you think that organic cotton is the best option in terms of being earth-friendly?

free skin care · Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:31 pm

You're kind to ask... but everything "green-wise" is kind of up in the air, because of the fuel crisis. And it may all actually go away, as a trend.

There was a whole "ecological/environmentally friendly" movement in the 70s. Which blew over. I was telling a 25-year-old this the other day and he was shocked to learn this philosophy comes and goes. But this "greening" of America has happened regularly, and people then moved on (or back) to be lazy and complacent again.

In the 70's, we were all citing "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and we invented Earth Day. We had a gas crisis and every-other-day fuel rationing, even, based on your license plate number, and "long lines at the gas pump," with photos on the front pages of local papers for weeks.

Frankly, it all comes back to economics. I'm sure there IS a safer way to process bamboo, but it most likely is much more expensive. Same with organic everything -- because so much product is lost before it even gets to market, without antibiotics and pesticides in use.

The wild card this time around is that we have a much, much more GLOBAL economy. But we'll keep falling down regularly. If China can step up its quality, it can change the whole landscape. Meanwhile "outsourcing" to other countries, while cheaper, has political ramifications, etc.

Growing pains. Growing pains. Crying or Very sad

free skin care · Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:07 pm

Having grown up in the 60's and 70's in the Haight Ashbury with a Birkenstock wearing mother, I certainly understand what you're saying. But each time these movements come around, there is more knowledge and awareness. Especially clear if you look back at the "health" movements from the past. And I don't see some things like organic food leaving us. So hopefully, smart people will keep trying to find solutions. Confused

free skin care · Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:05 pm

I hope you're right. But these trends go back to the 1700's in this country. Healthy eating and exercise trends come and go. But Americans are notoriously fickle... and lazy. And really, really do not like to be told what to do.

The whole metric system thingy? So the world would all measure the same? Yeah, THAT was a huge success. Americans simply refused to learn it.

Which ultimately resulted in the Challenger exploding (when Brit numbers and US numbers were discovered to have related to cm. and in., respectively). Which should have been a big red flag about our hubris. But we're still talking inches in the U.S.

I don't know if we know more or not. What I do know is there is an American character which is more than a little arrogant (no! rrrreally?) and willing to let hard things slide. The most intelligent, enlightened choice does not always win, nor remain. I'm not sure what will ever cause that to change. It's kinda built into the American "freedom" and "civil liberties" system.

free skin care · Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:22 pm

...Hence my ability to spend more time on skin care then on the environment!

But it makes me sad about the bamboo.

free skin care · Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:59 pm

While I appreciate Sidda's caution, I remain slightly more optimistic. I don't think all instances of people wanting to make "greener" choices are necessarily fads. For example, when I was in elementary school a lot of data surfaced about CFCs and the like burning a hole in the ozone. Starting then, cosmetics companies busted their rear-ends to make something WITHOUT CFCs that the consumer would feel good about buying. Pick up a bottle of aerosol hairspray today more than 20 years later and you will STILL see "No CFCs" written. This wasn't some fad that went ahead when people got too lazy to care--- this is a change that stuck and will continue to stick. I don't think it's a trend that people are carrying their own cloth bags to the grocery store now or wanting to buy organic food, free-range eggs, milk WITHOUT hormones, etc. I just think that consciousness has been raised on the whole and I am very glad of it. I will definitely continue to do my part as much as I can (and still allow myself treats such as bamboo sheets...^-^).

free skin care · Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:04 pm

I've purchased bamboo sheets before. They were super durable, didn't pill up like some sheets do.

BUT. I had to pass them on to my sister. They got softer and softer as I washed and dried them, until they were TOO soft for me. They would mold perfectly to my body, and it just started making me feel claustrophobic! I was going thru menopause at the time, and that probably had something to do with it, as I was always hot and sweaty feeling.

I've been thinking about buying another set and seeing if it would be different for me this time!

I have had friends tell me they prefer a cotton/bamboo sheet over pure bamboo, but I don't think I asked why.

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