Discover the healthier alternative

Most people think of silk as an expensive fabric that is the ultimate in luxury, smoothness but everyone should know how it could also benefit your health too.

Besides its luxurious softness and lustrous beauty, there are various other benefits of silk that other fabrics that man-made fabrics simply cannot match. These advantages of silk have rightly earned silk its reputation as the queen of fabrics. If Why Silk is still a question in your mind, the following benefits of silk should remove any doubts. It is not just a question of comparison with other fabrics, some of these benefits and advantages place silk in a league of its own.

An all-climate fabric, silk is warm and cosy in winter and comfortably cool when temperatures rise. Its natural temperature-regulating properties give silk this paradoxical ability to cool and warm simultaneously. Silk garments thus outperform other fabrics in both summer and winter. Silk worn as a second layer warms without being bulky

Here's how...

Natural

Silk is a 100% natural fabric

Breathing

Silk is naturally hypoallergenic.

• Because of its natural protein structure, silk is the most hypoallergenic of all fabrics
• Silk is highly absorbent: it can absorb up to 30% of its weight in moisture without feeling damp. Silk will absorb perspiration while letting your skin breathe
• Silk is made from the cocoons. Like nearly anything in nature, there are natural occurring substances in the cocoon of the silkworm that protect from various threats. Because the process of turning those cocoons into silk is a gentle one that does not strip away those natural substances, the benefits of them are still in the silk when you purchase silk products.
  
  

Sensitive Skin

• Silk works in two ways to assist sensitive skin.

• Thanks to silk’s natural thermostatic properties, silk clothes will keep you warm in winter and cool in summer.
• Silk is 100% natural, and contains many amino acids in common with the human body, these acids help moisture penetrate the skin (aid in absorption) and aid in skin healing.

• Silk will keep you warm without being bulky.

 

• Silk is fine, durable, light.  The individual fibres are approximately a half a mile long, which is what gives the fabric its lustre and ultra smooth surface so beneficial to sensitive skin. It has been said on more than one occasion that the amino acids in silk are good for a person's skin and help delay wrinkling in the skin as well as being good for a person's hair. They are also said to be helpful to the central nervous system helping to calm a person.

Together these benefits will help:-

• Eczema
• Sensitive Skin
• allergic rash
• skin inflammations (psoriasis)
• shingles
• post-chemotherapy sensitive skin
• post surgery sutures

 

Durability

 

• A fiber of silk that is of the same diameter as a fiber of steel is said to be stronger than the steel.  
• One silk thread is typically four to eight of the silk thread filaments twisted together. And because silk naturally tends to adhere to itself, the silk filaments bond themselves making them less likely to pull apart even after years of use.
• Silk will not deteriorate over time because of its natural fungal repellency and because chemicals are not used in processing.
• In spite of its delicate appearance, silk is relatively robust. Its smooth surface resists soil and odors well. Silk is wrinkle and tear resistant, and dries quickly
• While silk abrasion resistance is moderate, it is the strongest natural fiber and, surprisingly, it easily competes with steel yarn in tensile strength
•  Silk takes color well; washes easily; and is easy to work with in spinning, weaving, knitting, and sewing