ABOUT RAWGANIQUE

Are you looking for truly plastic-free clothing?

If so, may we offer you 100% biodegradable garments that are traditionally grown and made in USA and Europe (not China or India or, as is often the case, grown and processed in India or China and “made in USA”)?

Rawganique was founded in 1997 by off-grid island homesteaders on their animal sanctuary homestead. Keen-eyed readers of their blog wanted to buy the homemade rustic natural fiber clothing & home textiles they had spotted in the blog’s photos, and so, to fulfill that need, Rawganique.com was born.

Rawganique offers plastic-free, comfy, and cozy clothing made from raw untreated organic cotton, linen, hemp and merino.

We specialize in 100% biodegradable clothing and home textiles. This means no polyester, no elastane, no spandex, no bamboo, no plastic, no PVC, no chemical treatments, no microplastics, no over processed chemicalized fibers like bamboo, no forever chemicals, and no synthetics.

Whenever possible, we use organic cotton thread to sew our garments. We always use plastic-free natural buttons carved from tagua nuts or coconuts. We have developed our own organic cotton interfacing and natural trims to use in our products. When a zipper is called for, we use premium YKK zippers made from recycled components. We offer many styles of socks, underwear, bra, and clothing that are elastic-free and we use organic elastic made from 50% organic cotton and 50% natural rubber for styles that require elastics. We use natural European cork & organic cotton labels. Now we enclose products in biodegradable cellophane or translucent paper bags that are home-compostable.

We process our fibers the traditional way. For hemp and linen, that means growing them organically in Europe without chemicals. The plant stalks are then dew-retted in the fields and mechanically comb into beautiful long-staple yarns, ready to knitting and weaving at our workshop. We never use acids or toxic chemicals or forever chemicals to process our natural fibers as is often done for fibers produced in China and India, for example.

We also carry products that are less than 100% biodegradable, either due to the need for special support, strength or elasticity or zippers, which we aren’t able to manufacture ourselves. We normally state the percentage of biodegradable components on relevant product pages.

There is only one official website where you can get Rawganique products: www.rawganique.com Every other website claiming to sell our products is a fraud and scam.

Who We Are: Small family business, independent, homesteaders at heart, fair, animal-loving, we make things in small batches to maximize purity, we are small by choice. We are a US company based in Washington state.

Who You Are: Seeker of the plastic-free lifestyle who’s aware that the world is not a perfect place, you love our planet as much as we do, you understand that manufacturing truly pure clothing on a small scale has its many challenges and limitations so you don’t look for perfection where none exists (frankly, truly natural clothing cannot be perfect like plastic clothing full of forever chemicals). You are done with wearing plastic clothing disguised as sexy, luxury must-have items. You are concerned about what plastic synthetic clothing might do to your endocrine, hormones and fertility (especially synthetic underwear, bras and socks). You want real, you want truly natural, and you are willing to mend clothing as needed by watching helpful YouTube videos on how to gently care for and maintain natural fiber clothing. You understand that truly natural products are not as tough as synthetic plastic products that last forever (many influencers tout natural products as lasting forever, giving consumers unreal expectations; these same influencers get paid to push products from certain companies, so their advice is money-based). The problem with plastics and synthetics is they last forever, they never break down, they are strong, but they are not good for humans or for the environment. Truly natural products that are not treated with forever chemicals will last as long as you treat them gently and kindly. In other words, don’t throw organic linen, hemp or merino items into the dryer! Always use laundry net bags to protect your organic products.

Who You Are Not: Follower of fast fashions who’s full of entitlements and spoiled by Big Business into a cycle of shopping with unreal expectations. For Big Business, the consumer is the product for their partners to market cheaply made products to at the highest margin possible. To a Small Business, the customer is a friend who understands that you’re trying to create something beautiful out of what Nature provides and you’re on the same imperfect journey. If you expect Big Business experience, stay with Big Business and leave Small Businesses alone. Everyone will be better off that way.

Who We Are Not: We are not after insane profits. Our costs are very high, from fair labor to filler-free organic natural materials to tariffs to shipping not subsidized by courier (like Big Business gets; they pay next to nothing, that’s why they can offer free shipping, free returns, etc…). There are just a lot of costs to running a small independent business. We aim for a little profit so that we can continue to do what we have been doing since 1997: making products that are as natural and pure as possible in this imperfect world of ours where everything is mass-produced, from factory farming to industrial high-speed garment production. We don’t pay influencers to push our products or tell you what to buy; we hope that you discover us through a genuine search for functional products that uniquely made from natural materials.

Most orders over $350 qualify for free shipping. We ship worldwide; the customer is responsible for applicable tariffs, duties and brokerage fees imposed by the carrier and the customers’ home government. Customers overseas often tell us that the products we make simply do not exist in their country, and even after factoring in international fees our products are reasonably priced, considering that most of our products aren’t available anywhere else. We feel for you for the extra fees, and we hope that there’s a future where biodegradable products that are good for humanity and the planet are exempt from the vagaries of duties and fees and tariffs.

Thank you so much for your unwavering support through the thick and thin years. Thank you for choosing small, independent, sweatshop-free, organic and sustainable.

May peace, kindness, and sustainability prevail.