25 Organic T-Shirts to Upgrade Your Essentials

Canadian brand The Good Tee is on a mission to be a positive example of responsibly made basics for the whole family, and strives to humanise the fashion industry. The brand’s unisex tee is a tried and true basic organic cotton piece for every wardrobe.

Find its range in sizes XS-2XL.

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Yes Friends is a UK-based fashion brand that creates more affordable clothing for everyone. Yes Friends' first product, classic cut t-shirts, cost less than £4 to make and the brand only charges £7.99. Using large scale production and direct to consumer margins means Yes Friends can charge you an affordable price for its more responsible clothing.

Find the range inclusively sized in 2XS-4XL.

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Established in 2012 by Lis Harvey, NICO celebrates minimalism and understated luxury. The brand brings high quality basics and underwear to the Australian fashion landscape, featuring clean lines, luxe fabrics, and the styles and colours needed for every day. NICO’s factories are signatories to The Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord and are compliant with BSCI and certified with WRAP. Find this ethically-made organic cotton tee in a range of pastel hues, also available in a discounted 3-pack.

Available in sizes XS-XL.

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Portuguese brand ISTO.’s mandate is simple: create clothes to transcend the seasons and work as staple items in your wardrobe all year round. It has one single collection and pursues quality over quantity to try and make its items permanently available. It uses organic materials and is incredibly transparent in showing you the true cost of your clothes when you go to purchase a piece for your wardrobe.

The range is available in XS-XL.

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KOHR is a UK-based slow fashion brand that designs and manufactures in house. The brand has three main focuses to ensure it’s responsibly innovative: longevity, versatility, and traceability.

Find the range in sizes S-XL or made to order.

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A.BCH is a Melbourne-based, Australian-made fashion label for individuals who care about garment provenance. It utilises renewable, organic, and recycled materials. Find the range in sizes XS-XL, or customise to fit you! How cute is this charcoal stripe GOTS organic cotton crop t-shirt? Like a good mullet, it’s longer in the back and features a raw, rolled hem. It’s beautiful fitted but for an oversized look, order two sizes up.

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Streetwear without sweatshops, that’s the motto of this British 100% plant-based, ethical, lower-impact, and cruelty-free streetwear apparel brand. Speaking of plant-based, this organic cotton logo tee comes in black, white, and grey, and is pretty much the coolest way to tell the world you leave animals off your plate. Oh, and it’s unisex, like the brand’s entire range.

Find it in sizes XS-2XL.

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Fair Indigo is a US-based brand that creates more sustainable clothing not only for the planet, but for the human beings involved in your clothing's journey from the cotton farms to your closet. Instead of racing to the bottom, it is aspiring to the top.

Its premium quality organic clothing collections are available in sizes XS-2XL.

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Malaika New York is a minimalistic more sustainable clothing brand with a focus on anti-waste clothing and accessories. The US-based brand aims to eliminate fashion’s harmful environmental effects by utilising lower-waste patterns, while maximising wearability by producing luxe-quality, contemporary garments that make a statement now and into the future.

Find most garments in S-XL, with some items going up to 2XL.

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Outland Denim makes premium denim jeans and clothes, and offers ethical employment opportunities for women rescued from human trafficking in Cambodia. This Australian brand was founded as an avenue for the training and employment of women who have experienced sex trafficking.

Find this stylish and minimalist logo tee in 2XS-2XL.

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Harvest & Mill pieces are grown, milled, and sewn exclusively in the US, supporting American organic cotton farmers and local sewing communities. The brand makes basics for everyone, always ensuring they are not dyed or bleached, greatly reducing the use of water, energy, and dye materials. Even better, by cultivating different varieties of cotton, the brand is able to bolster biodiversity, which is essential for ensuring healthy ecosystems and keeping our planet resilient in the face of climate change.

Shop the range in sizes S-XL.

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Citizen Wolf uses revolutionary technology to give you high quality custom-fit t-shirts that it guarantees will be the best you’ve ever worn. After capturing your customisations, the brand handmakes each tee in Sydney using certified lower-impact fabrics like cotton, hemp, and Merino wool milled in Melbourne.

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The Classic T-Shirt Company is a US brand that creates premium tees and ethical t-shirts with luxury and integrity. All of its products, like this super soft blush crewneck organic t-shirt for men, are GOTS certified organic cotton and it does not use any animal products.

The Classic T-Shirt Company’s range is available in US sizes XS-3XL.

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tentree is a lifestyle apparel company that plants ten trees for every item purchased! The Canadian brand uses a high proportion of better materials including organic cotton. It uses renewable energy in its supply chain to reduce its climate impact and has a range of t-shirts for men, women, and children. We love the kid’s ones, like this tree print t-shirt made from a combination of three more sustainable fabrics: recycled PET plastic, TENCEL Lyocell, and organic cotton!

Available in sizes 1-5.

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Mila.Vert offers timeless, minimal, and chic clothing, adding sophisticated details that give the garments a modern feel. The Slovenia-based brand wants to make desirable clothing, avoiding the ethical and environmental issues that the fashion industry represents. This not-so-short-sleeved organic cotton jersey t-shirt comes in black and white.

Find the garments in sizes XS-XL, or make a custom fit order free of charge!

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Finally, a classic white tee that’s as Earth-loving as you are! Happy Earth Apparel is a US organic clothing brand that works to give back, inspired by nature and dedicated to preserving it. This B Corporation certified brand makes the planet a better place with every purchase. Through its partnerships with non-profits and Happy Earth ambassadors, it’s planting trees, fighting climate change, and cleaning up trash.

Find most items in sizes XS to XXL.

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Unrecorded is an independent clothing brand from the Netherlands that represents a new wave of unisex brands that are rebelling against the nature of fast fashion. Unrecorded is passionate about style, and produces apparel using more responsible materials.

Its range includes items that are all year round essentials suitable for any wardrobe, available in sizes XS-2XL.

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Etiko is a designer of organic, lower-impact, and fair trade clothing and shoes. The brand has a large range of blank and printed tees, including this basic long sleeve fairtrade t-shirt that is fantastic for layering.

Find the shirts in AU sizes 8-20.

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Ethical men’s clothing, selected with style – With the vision to support you to build a wardrobe of stylish and sustainably made menswear that is 100% vegan. Take a stand in this regular fit organic cotton tee featuring the BWS logo.

Available in sizes S-XL.

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Mother of Pearl is a more responsible and ethical luxury womenswear and accessories designer brand from the UK that celebrates individuality and authenticity. The brand uses a high proportion of lower-impact materials including organic cotton and ensures the payment of a living wage across some of its supply chain. This rolled-sleeve statement tee tells it like it is in more sustainable style.

Find most products in UK sizes 6 to 16.

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“Love Fashion, Think Organic, Be Responsible” are the maxims of LANIUS. The German brand uses better materials, like GOTS certified cotton. All LANIUS facilities are SA8000 certified and it is a member of the Fair Wear Foundation. We’re vibing this elegant white cotton and hemp organic t-shirt with a unique cut.

LANIUS’ clothes are available in EU sizes 34-44.

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Threads 4 Thought uses a range of more sustainable materials including Lenzing Modal harvested from the limbs of beech trees. This process means that the trees are never cut down and 95% of the production materials to make the yarn are recovered and reused. The brand’s manufacturers are a combination of Fair Trade USA certified and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production certified.

The brand stocks a range of adorable tees for kids, like this organic cotton, recycled PET plastic, and rayon one with a tiny taco on the pocket! It’s available in US kid sizes 7-18.

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Affordable, ethical, and on-trend. Germany’s Armedangels gets a ‘Great’ rating overall from us. The brand covers all the basics for women, men, and kids. Armedangels’ quality and long-lasting pieces are made from lower-impact and certified materials, like Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certified cotton. The brand also adopted the Fair Wear Foundation Code of Conduct to protect its workers abroad. This vegan, locally made white long sleeve organic t-shirt has a boxy cut and is gentle on the skin.

Available in sizes XS-L.

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MATE the Label creates clean essentials made with GOTS certified organic fabrics and low-impact dyes. Its goal is to offer women everywhere a clean product that is just as beautiful as it is more sustainable. It is proudly female-founded and is predominately operated by women. This US brand also manufactures locally to reduce its carbon footprint. Find the range in inclusive sizes XS-3XL, like this cool charcoal grey tee. And if charcoal ain’t your thang, find the flattering shirt in 13 other hues, too!

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What list of organic t-shirts would be complete without our friends over at Organic Basics? Organic Basics offers high-quality more sustainable fashion basics for men and women in—you guessed it—organic materials. It also recently launched its first more sustainable denim collection! The Denmark-based brand puts sustainable thinking at the centre of everything—it only chooses fabrics that care for our environment, and only ever partners with factories that care about their impact. We’re loving this ocher stripe number, also available in a discounted 3-pack!

This one is available in sizes S-2XL.

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