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It seems that only children sleepwear is required to be flame retardant. All sleepwear either flame retardant or has a big tag that states this PJs are not flame retardant and therefore need to be snag fit. I usually look for tags that have that statement, since it's definitely means that fire retardants were not used. Other children clothes is not treated with FRs. Often you can see a tag on baby clothes that it's not intended for sleep, which also means it was not treated with flame retardant. I dressed my son both in hand-me-downs and gifts, and organic clothes that I got for him. Unfortunately back then I didn't know about FRs, so some sleeping blankets he slept in were fire retardants. With my upcoming daughter, I plan on getting organic sleeping blankets and PJs. Some of her clothes will be hand-me-downs, but if I buy anything, I try to keep it organic, at least till she is a bit older.

Interesting thing about organic clothes. It may be made out of organic cotton, but processed with toxic chemicals and dyes. So not all organic clothes are created "organic." So now if I buy organic, I usually try to see if it states something like "it was processed without harmful chemicals or dyes." Oh, another day, I've read that in order to ease weaving cotton in cloth, fibers sometimes are treated with polyvinyl alcohol... Also many 100% organic clothes are treated with formaldehyde and other staff, since it prepares clothe to dyeing process and  helps colors not to fade fast. So yep, the more you dig, the more in owe you feel. [/quote]

How about baby clothes -- like just onesies and footies? I guess they are not technically PJs. They just say 100% cotton on them. I am guessing they are fine. I am the same as you, I have tons of hand me down clothes, and anything I buy new is organic. I also tend to put organic onesies under my baby's clothes.

All u can do is your best and buy organic and hope it's ok. But I agree, the more you dig, the more disturbing it is.....[/quote]

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