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When I first told my husband that I wanted to start a company that would produce organic Egyptian cotton babywear, he actually laughed. “There’s no such thing as organic cotton in Egypt,” he said. He went on to explain that his father was a cotton trader in the far south of Egypt, and he knew what a chemical-intense crop cotton was. He said that because of the aerial pesticides sprayed on cotton plants, there were no birds in his village growing up.

“But let’s try anyway,” he said.