Wool – nature’s super material!
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Even if it’s freezing outdoors, your child will perspire when they run around playing. It’s important that this moisture gets wicked away from their body, or they will soon start feeling unpleasantly damp and chilly. Yet obviously you want their clothes to keep them warm in wintery weather.
The solution is a material that keeps their body warm and dry. This is why we recommend a wool base layer. Wool is nature’s super material, as it breathes and keeps the body really warm – even if it gets wet. Wool is also especially good for newborn babies and infants, who haven’t yet developed the same ability to regulate their body temperature as older children and adults.
Many people mistakenly believe that wool is itchy and uncomfortable, but our wool base layers are made of soft and completely non-itchy Merino wool. What’s more, wool is also naturally self-cleaning! So you won’t need to wash clothes made of wool as frequently and you’ll often find that simply airing them does the trick.
Wool as layer 1 and 2
We have wool garments both as Layer 1, the base layer, and as Layer 2, the middle layer, in thicker wool terry, which is even warmer than ordinary wool.
Wool or polyester?
Wool is a natural material that’s perfect for Layer 1 accodring to the layering principal. And even if wool gets wet, it will still keep the body warm. Polyester is a synthetically produced fiber and a cheaper alternative to wool. Polyester doesn’t have the ability to keep the body warm once the material gets wet, but it carries moisture away from the body.
Wool for adults
Now grown-ups can discover for themselves how comfy and smart our wool garments are! Keep your body temperature well-regulated in our lightweight wool thermals, perfect as Layer 1. Or keep warm in our thick sets in soft wool terry, which are perfect as Layer 2 under outerwear, or as soft loungewear to snuggle up in at home.
More about Polarn O. Pyrets wool
Always mulesing-free
We want all animals to be well-treated and do not see why any animal should have to suffer in order for us to make our clothes. This is why we have a zero tolerance for mulesing and we prioritise purchasing wool from countries with no mulesing. Whenever we buy merino wool from Australia, we always require a certificate that mulesing has not been a part of wool production. We also never use wool from Angora rabbits.
Superwash
Our clothes in merino wool are Superwash-treated. Superwash is a patented process that makes the wool machine-washable without felting. This treatment is carried out in different ways: we use a process in which the wool fibres are given an acid bath to remove their scales (which would otherwise cause the wool to felt in the washing machine).