Cosme-Phytami™ Cotton

Cotton plants produce creamy-white flowers which soon turn deep pink and then fall, leaving small green seedpods, known as cotton “bolls”, which contain the seeds. Cotton is native to most subtropical countries and was already used for its medicine and cosmetic properties by the ancient Chinese and Hindus. The literature states that the cotton plant was already being cultivated in China 3,000 years before our era. It is, above all, a textile plant cultivated for the fibres it produces. Cotton fibres are used for a wide range of purposes: fabrics, blankets, wadding and cotton wool, tyre covers, etc. Cotton by-products such as linter (which lines the seeds of some species) are also used in the manufacture of varnishes, explosives, imitation leather, etc., and hulls are used in the production of fuel, paper pulp, coal, etc. Symbol of softness, innocence, purity, of nobility, cotton, vegetable fibre, is connect to the feeling of comfort, coolness, wellness, and smoothness.