Archive for March, 2012
Disana’s secrets of success
Posted Monday, March 5th, 2012 by Helen East in our brands
The News is in, and it is official... the best seller this Autumn/Winter season has been the Merino Wool Trousers or Leggings by Disana.
Disana is one of our all-round top brands - so what are they doing right, and what makes them so special?
Disana began 25 years ago - in a garage. When they started their company, Dieter and Imma Sautter combined their initials D and I with the word Sana, which is the name of the ancient goddess of health and healing – very apt for Disana's natural ethos.
Disana now supply shops around the world with organic wool baby and children's clothes and is still growing steadily, carrying with them this vision of health and healing through clothing.
Why is wool good for you?
Posted Friday, March 2nd, 2012 by Helen East in dressing your baby, our fabricsYou've probably noticed we use expresssions such as "breathable" and "regulates body temperature" a lot at Cambridge Baby. Wool is naturally an amazingly clever fibre and here you can find out how and why.
I'm going to explain how wool can- breathe, absorbing water vapour from the body and releasing it into the atmosphere
- dynamically respond to the environment
- help regulate temperature
- clean itself (oh yes!), and
- repel rain (think: sheep).
The magic of wool
The magic of wool lies in its structure. Wool consists of three layers.- The inner layer or core is keratin, a moisture-loving protein that all animal hair has. It is designed to maintain a stable body temperature - to keep the body at a comfortable and stable temperature. Think how useful this is to babies, athletes and your own day-to-day living.
- The second layer is a scaly covering. The overlapping scales are tiny, but as they rub against each other they push off the dirt. So it is self-cleaning, as anyone who's put their baby in wool knows.
- A wool fibre's third layer, the top layer, is a filmy skin which keeps the rain out. Wool is quite water-resistant, as duffel-coat wearers and sheep can testify.