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Hemp: Eco-Friendly Products, Uses, & More!

sustainable industrial hemp uses

Hemp is Not a Drug, It’s a SUSTAINABLE Alternative

Hemp makes up fabrics, food, building materials, fuel, and more. It is not the same as smoking weed, cannabis, or marijuana. Not that those things are bad, as long as they are legal. However, in order to fully understand the powerful benefits of utilizing hemp as an industrial material, this must be stated. They fall under the same species umbrella, but are not even remotely related in the way that they are made up or used. Think of them as a Great Dane versus a Teacup Poodle. Now do you see the difference?

Seeing as we don’t have to make much for ourselves anymore (sewing our own clothes, growing our own essential foods and plants to create materials), we generally don’t know much about fabrics outside of cotton. Cotton and slavery built our country, after all. But cotton isn’t the only way to make a shirt, or a pillow case, jeans, or canvas shoes. There are several different plants that can be harvested to make materials for our everyday needs. A lot of them, like hemp, can be harvested in a manner more sustainable than cotton could ever be.

Quick Facts:

Facts presented via Super Ego Clothiers, a modern hemp clothing & lifestyle brand.

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Top Uses for Hemp

As the infographic above says, there have been over 25,000 discoveries for the industrial use of hemp. Here are just a few:

  • Fabric for clothing and things like bags and shoes, and hemp fiber and fabrics are also antimicrobial.
  • Hemp can actually be used for FOOD, and is considered a superfood because it is packed with nutrients!
  • Hemp paper lasts longer than tree paper. The United States Constitution was written on hemp paper.
  • Fuel for automobiles.
  • Building materials for new construction.

Eco-Friendly Benefits

  • Less water is wasted in the process of growing and creating hemp products. The fashion industry is currently the number one most wasteful industry in the world. Incorporating fabrics like that would change the fashion industry tremendously.
  • The fibers are stronger than cotton fibers, so the fabrics lasts longer, thus expanding the lifespan of fabrics. This would decrease fast-fashion because clothes would be of better quality.
  • Hemp crops yield 4 times as much usable products as a cotton crop of the same size, and they use less pesticides in the process!

Eco-Friendly Hemp Fashion & Lifestyle Brands

hemp clothing brands

  • Bohempia – shoes
  • Super Ego Clothiers – Shirts, hats, snack bars, soaps & oils,
  • This World – Women’s fashion
  • The Hempest – Men’s & women’s basics: underwear, outerwear, socks, shirts, pants, and wallets
  • Hempy’s – clothes, beanies, craft supplies, body care, candles, hats, belts, and more
  • Jungmaven – Men’s & women’s apparel, home, and accessories

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is hemp a sustainable option?

Did you know that hemp could do all of that? It can feed you, clothe you, & build the structures around you. Makes you wonder why it is only legal to grow in 10 states in the USA, right? Let’s create the demand for it by supporting eco-friendly hemp businesses like those above. What’s your favorite hemp product and brand?

Check out Tiny Green Earthling to see why we love hemp for our little one!

Addie

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  • Hemp Overnight Cloth Diaper Solution - Tiny Green Earthling
    February 6, 2018

    […] a lot of liquid and it is gentle enough to be in contact against the skin. Mom’s post about HEMP tells of all the great benefits of this plant. It can be food, paper, building materials, and […]

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  • Bamboo Sheets by Aloha Soft | Sustainable Living Tips — Old World New
    July 6, 2018

    […] blended fabric sheets do. I believe that if we continue to buy items that stray from the norm, like hemp and bamboo instead of cotton, our collective sustainable efforts will make waves and change the […]

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    February 4, 2019

    […] – Fashion Nova via Thrift Giant on half price day, about $3 // Shoes – Bohemipa (hemp […]

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Happy Earth Day 🌍🫶🏾🌱

I used to think “let me just get 5k followers.. 10k followers… one day I’ll have 20k followers…” to help people live more sustainably with the blog posts and social media posts I created. 10+ years of that led to burnout. And it never felt the same as when my friends and family started to live a little more sustainably because of something they learned from me. 

I hope you’ll be the inspiration for someone in your life to be a little bit more sustainable today. It’s such a good feeling to see the people closest to you thrift more, consume less, and think differently — more sustainably — about how we treat our world. 

Don’t push it, just live it. 

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Happy Earth Day 🌍🫶🏾🌱 I used to think “let me just get 5k followers.. 10k followers… one day I’ll have 20k followers…” to help people live more sustainably with the blog posts and social media posts I created. 10+ years of that led to burnout. And it never felt the same as when my friends and family started to live a little more sustainably because of something they learned from me. I hope you’ll be the inspiration for someone in your life to be a little bit more sustainable today. It’s such a good feeling to see the people closest to you thrift more, consume less, and think differently — more sustainably — about how we treat our world. Don’t push it, just live it. Happy Earth Day 🌍🫶🏾🌱
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It’s been cold in Texas the past few days, so I acted accordingly to protect my little backyard garden that’s barely underway. 

Using thrifted sheets (once back drops in my “thrift fashionista style content” days lol) and thrifted clothes pins (I knew they would come in handy! 😆🙌🏾), as well as some old jugs, bottles, containers, and twigs. Hopefully they help keep the plants from getting too cold to survive.
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🥶❌🌱 Not my plant babies! It’s been cold in Texas the past few days, so I acted accordingly to protect my little backyard garden that’s barely underway. Using thrifted sheets (once back drops in my “thrift fashionista style content” days lol) and thrifted clothes pins (I knew they would come in handy! 😆🙌🏾), as well as some old jugs, bottles, containers, and twigs. Hopefully they help keep the plants from getting too cold to survive.
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Turn off your lights (outdoor & indoor) to limit light pollution and to protect migrating birds 🫶🏾🕊️

TURN ‘EM OFF! (in my Teddy Pendergrass voice 😂)

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Finally got a migrating bird LIGHTS OUT sign 🤩 Turn off your lights (outdoor & indoor) to limit light pollution and to protect migrating birds 🫶🏾🕊️ TURN ‘EM OFF! (in my Teddy Pendergrass voice 😂) #lightsouttexas #lightsout #lightpollution #migratorybirds
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Do you reuse gift wrap?

Here are some things that I’ve thrifted to reuse as gift wrap each holiday season:

⭐️ tablecloths
⭐️ napkins & handkerchiefs (matching napkins sewn together can be used for larger gifts)
⭐️ Scarves (like from @wrappr)
⭐️ Cloth bags (like the ones your sheet sets come in)
⭐️ Pillowcases
⭐️ Curtains (can be used as gift wrap or to cover larger gifts like bikes or toy kitchens)

As long as you can fold the fabric into a square before wrapping the gift, it works well when using the furoshiki style wrapping technique. 

Comment WRAP for a few tips and tricks to wrap gifts in cloth fabric.
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Do you reuse gift wrap? Here are some things that I’ve thrifted to reuse as gift wrap each holiday season: ⭐️ tablecloths ⭐️ napkins & handkerchiefs (matching napkins sewn together can be used for larger gifts) ⭐️ Scarves (like from @wrappr) ⭐️ Cloth bags (like the ones your sheet sets come in) ⭐️ Pillowcases ⭐️ Curtains (can be used as gift wrap or to cover larger gifts like bikes or toy kitchens) As long as you can fold the fabric into a square before wrapping the gift, it works well when using the furoshiki style wrapping technique. Comment WRAP for a few tips and tricks to wrap gifts in cloth fabric.
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