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All Kala­ni pro­ducts are Fair­trade cer­ti­fied. The bath linen, towels and bath­ro­bes are ethi­cal­ly made in India in Fair Trade fac­to­ries, which respect workers rights. The fac­to­ries all respect the rules and code of con­duct of the ILO (Inter­na­tio­nal Labour Office).

The bed linen fac­to­ry is loca­ted in the pro­vin­ce of West Ben­gal in nor­t­hern India. This fac­to­ry was one of the first Indi­an fac­to­ries – 15 years ago – to beco­me GOTS cer­ti­fied and tra­ding orga­nic cot­ton. Unli­ke in other fac­to­ries, every pro­duct is che­cked by hand in order to ensu­re the hig­hest qua­li­ty for your bed linen and covers. For the blan­kets, Kala­ni works with a fac­to­ry loca­ted in the pro­vin­ce of Uttar Pra­desh in nor­t­hern India. This orga­nic and fair­trade cer­ti­fied fac­to­ry spe­cia­li­zes in knit­ted tex­ti­les for spon­ges, plaids and swea­ters. The last released Luxu­ry Towels coll­ec­tion is made from Orga­nic cot­ton and 100% made in Belgium.

Kala­ni offers you bath linen, pil­low­ca­ses, bed covers, bath­ro­bes, bath­room towels and bath mats made from 100% orga­nic and fair­trade cot­ton. In the past year, the brand has also expan­ded its offer with a loun­ge­wear coll­ec­tion that con­sists of com­for­ta­ble hoo­dies, T‑shirts, track trou­sers and night dres­ses. All pro­ducts are made to last and easy to use. Thanks to the soft­ness and high qua­li­ty of the fibres and wea­ve, no iro­ning (or low iro­ning) is nee­ded.

Kala­ni home linen is made from 100% orga­nic cot­ton GOTS cer­ti­fied by Eco­cert Green­li­fe. Both ensu­re the hig­hest stan­dard on the mar­ket. The­re are no arti­fi­ci­al che­mi­cals, toxic mate­ri­als nor GMOs used in the pro­duc­tion of your bath­ro­bes, towels and duvet covers. The result? Healt­hy soil, rich bio­di­ver­si­ty, no toxic che­mi­cals in the envi­ron­ment, and workers who are respec­ted and fair­ly paid. The GOTS cer­ti­fied cot­ton is picked and pro­ces­sed in a safe way. All of the Kala­ni pro­ducts com­ply with the REACH stan­dard, which gua­ran­tees you that no toxic mate­ri­als were used. The stan­dard ensu­res the safe­ty of tex­ti­le workers, the envi­ron­ment and your fami­ly.

Con­ven­tio­nal cot­ton cul­ti­va­ti­on requi­res lots of fer­ti­li­sers and pesti­ci­des. The­se arti­fi­ci­al che­mi­cals are deri­ved from oil, and the­r­e­fo­re pol­lu­ting the envi­ron­ment. For 1 kg of con­ven­tio­nal cot­ton, 3 kg of arti­fi­ci­al che­mi­cals are nee­ded. Lucki­ly this is not the case at Kalani.

Kalani’s offers you bed linen in 4 dif­fe­rent fabrics, all pro­vi­ding dif­fe­rent sen­so­ry expe­ri­en­ces.

- Cot­ton Sateen is the ulti­ma­te luxu­ry, the sof­test and war­mest qua­li­ty of fabric, wit­hout being too hot in the sum­mers.
- Cot­ton per­ca­le repres­ents hotel qua­li­ty and is an alter­na­ti­ve to satin cot­ton.
- The Pre­mi­um Jer­sey is very soft, and wide­ly used for fit­ted sheets.The Jer­sey Pre­mi­um will make you feel like you are slee­ping in your favou­ri­te T‑shirt.
- Flat Cable Knit is used for the plaids.

Sus­tainable cand­les

Kala­ni offers you 100% orga­nic soy wax, all hand­ma­de in Brussels. The cand­les car­ry a fresh smell of cot­ton flowers from orga­nic oil pro­du­ced in France. With the Kala­ni cand­le, you will be invi­ted to enjoy a calm and cosy evening.

Soy wax cand­les burn on avera­ge 2 times lon­ger than ordi­na­ry cand­les. Soya wax is made from the oil of soya beans, so it is also a vege­ta­ble mate­ri­al. Kala­ni only uses GMO-free soya beans for their cand­les. Thanks to a short sup­p­ly chain, they can lower their CO2 emis­si­ons.

Did you know that to label the pro­duct as a ​‘soya cand­le’, it’s not neces­sa­ry to make the enti­re cand­le from soya? The other mate­ri­als can the­r­e­fo­re also con­tain pol­lu­ting par­af­fin or palm oil, which is a lot che­a­per. So always choo­se 100% soya cand­les, like here at Kalani.

Kala­ni has mea­su­red the impact of the orga­nic bed linen, in com­pa­ri­son with con­ven­tio­nal cot­ton. By only using orga­nic GOTS cer­ti­fied Cot­ton, Kala­ni has

- redu­ced the use of syn­the­tic pesti­ci­des and fer­ti­li­sers with 100%
- decreased water con­sump­ti­on by 96%. The fac­to­ries in India are loca­ted in a rai­ny cli­ma­te, so no human – - irri­ga­ti­on is neces­sa­ry to grow cot­ton.
- saved 6% ener­gy pro­duc­tion
- saves 6% CO2 emis­si­ons
For each pro­duct on the Kala­ni web­site you can cal­cu­la­te how much ener­gy, water and CO2 emis­si­ons you have saved by choo­sing orga­nic cot­ton. A gre­at way to imme­dia­te­ly see your impact on the pla­net by shop­ping consciously.

Trans­port and pack­a­ging

The pro­ducts are ship­ped in recy­cled and recy­clable card­board boxes. The gaps insi­de the boxes are fil­led recy­cled paper twists. Duvet covers and pil­low­ca­ses are packa­ged in a beau­tiful cot­ton bag, which you can re-used to store your sheets in your ward­ro­be, to pro­tect your under­wear or sepa­ra­te your shoes in a suitcase.

All kala­ni artic­les, cand­les, bath­ro­bes, towels, covers and pil­low­ca­ses have a ​‘vegan appro­ved’ cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on. This way you can be sure to exclude all ani­mal ingre­di­ents from your bath and bed­room. The use of orga­nic far­ming prac­ti­ces for cot­ton also increa­ses local biodiversities.

Kala­ni is dedi­ca­ted to work with fabrics woven at 300tc (300 thread count): this amount offers the best ratio of lon­ge­vi­ty to luxu­ry pro­ducts. Howe­ver you should not always rely on the num­ber of threads given on the pack­a­ging of your linen. Some cot­ton brands on the mar­ket cla­im to offer 900tc or even 1200tc, while they only work in sin­gle thread. The­se brands will arti­fi­ci­al­ly cal­cu­la­te a hig­her num­ber thread.The high-qua­li­ty long cot­ton fibres Kala­ni uses will ensu­re the lon­ge­vi­ty of your soft towels and sheets. Cot­ton lasts lon­ger com­pared to other fabrics (e.g. Bam­boo towels) plus cot­to­nis more easi­ly recy­clable. Espe­ci­al­ly if it’s made out of only one mate­ri­al like here at Kala­ni. Pure mono­ma­te­ri­al items can be retur­ned to the cycle wit­hout mecha­ni­cal recy­cling or che­mi­cal recycling.

Kala­ni is trans­pa­rent about their cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on, their sup­pli­ers and their over­all cos­ts. Through the pri­cing table on their web­site you get an over­view of how much it cos­ts to pro­du­ce your soft luxu­ry tex­ti­les. The brand also takes the eco­lo­gi­cal and social cos­ts of its pro­duc­tion into account. Kal­a­ni’s cost break­down on €100 spent: cau­se you have the right to know what you are pay­ing for.