Love Your Baby, Love Organic 2017

What is Kapuk? (and how do you say it?!!!) It has actually been quite surprising finding people that know about Kapuk - I haven't seen it being used as a stuffing in many products at all! But it's a fantastic fibre, who's benefits outway most of it's competitors and one that really needs promoting. So how do you say it? "Kay" (or phonetically speaking "Kei") "Poek", so no tongue twisting there :) (phew!).

I have now included a tab on my product pages giving a few details on what we are filling our pillows with. Check out our product pages or just read below!

Here at Baby Harvelicious we fill our Huggsie Pillow with a fibre called Kapuk (also known as silk cotton or Java cotton).

Kapuks origins come from Java Island - Indonesia, but can now be found in rainforests worldwide.

The kapuk fibres are hair-like, glossy and are a yellowish, cream colour made from lignin and cellulose. 

Each fibre is about 2.5 cm long and has thin walls that are covered with a waterproof wax. Combined, this makes kapuk:

lightweight - which helps when you are using it to support a growing baby!

resilient - its waxy coating helps repel water, and that is always helpful with accidents and spillages

bouncy - kapuk resists clumping, so does not become lumpy like other stuffings. Even after washing it bounces back to its original shape

slippy - the waxy coating makes it a slippy fibre therefore making it easy to adjust the shape to how you need (because it bounces back into shape afterwards it doesnt matter!)

warm - the cell structure in Kapuk allows it to trap air, which is great for insulating. Keeping your baby warm and snuggled 

hypoallergenic - which is important for vunerable newborns (with our stuffing being organic, this adds an extra bonus for your little one)

environmentally friendly - because kapuk is naturally biodegradable, it can be reused many times without developing mould or decaying (unlike stuffings containing polyester)

(From owner Baby Harvelicious - Europe)

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The Beauty Of Kapuk

Sometimes we forget how to feel, how to adjust to such a fast paced society. We forget to look back and appreciate the simplest things. We invent and we discover oil and we make our machines run with it, and we take a natural element and make it so important. Our team believe that Nature already gives us the best we can have, we can be gentle, and humble and we can be kind to one another. We rediscovered Kapuk and wants the world to know how great it is.

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New Adventure in The Land Of Kapuk

We are setting for a new adventure, an adventure in the Land of Kapuk. We plan to create the better future for the next generations. We want to plant a seed then we put the seed back to nature, where it belongs. All our products give back to nature what nature kindly and generously gives to us. We gives back what it borrows from the Land of Kapuk. We invest in our future and your future. We care about the Planet, we care about the Nature, we care about You. Join us and buy kapuk fiber to neturefy the planet with us!

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To Naturefy With Kapuk

To Naturefy is the VERB that we wants to use to express a feeling, an emotion, a need, to give back to Nature. We live in a world that needs our help, and we wants to give its contribution by using what Nature gives us, this amazing and fascinating element of nature, which is Kapuk. Please Naturefy with us and make a difference today.  Choose ORGANIC, choose KAPUK, choose NATURE, and NATUREFY the world one fiber at a time.

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Water Repellent by Nature

Kapuk fibers are water-repellent due to the natural wax coating. Mother Nature coated Kapuk fibers with a thin layer of wax thus making it hydrophobic – it almost does not absorb water. In addition, the large, air-filled lumen ensures that the kapuk fibers have a low density and good buoyancy. Even after extended immersion in water, buoyancy declines only slightly. Since Kapuk hairs are not wettable and incredibly buoyant are thus used for filling life jackets and life belts. Lightweight, hydrophobic, incredibly buoyant – one simple Kapuk fiber is full of many amazing active properties! A jewel made in the Land of Kapuk.

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Innovation Award 2016 The Materials Made Of Kapuk

PETA Fashion Awards 2016 winners have been announced. From Stella McCartney to Topshop, PETA has revealed the brands and designers that it is recognizing for their animal-friendly achievements this year. Flocus has received the Innovation Award 2016 for the materials made of Kapuk.

Compassion and sustainability continue to shape today’s fashion industry, and the PETA Fashion Awards celebrate the year’s greatest animal-friendly achievements and recognize the most compassionate brands and designers.

Using kapuk, a 100% natural seed fiber, we have developed an innovative and effective material which is insulating, lightweight, and water-repellent. This superior alternative to down is set to make headway this year, as more brands continue to ban cruelly obtained feathers from their collections. More environment friendly means more love on the Planet.

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