The Ultimate Guide to Ethical and Sustainable Underwear for Men and Women

Organic Basics offers high quality sustainable fashion basics for men and women in organic materials. 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.

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WAMA is pioneering the hemp clothing industry with premium hemp underwear. It uses a high proportion of eco-friendly materials including organic cotton and hemp, and is a PETA approved vegan company!

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Pico designs beautifully soft organic and fair-trade cotton underwear for both men and women. The British brand is fully vegan and all its products are Fairtrade International - Small Producers Organisations certified.

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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 everyday. The clever people who made these socks are working to solve the problem of textile waste in Bangladesh by creating yarns out of recycled cotton, saving water and drastically reducing CO2 emissions in comparison to conventional cotton. NICO’s factories are signatories to The Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord and are compliant with BSCI and certified with WRAP.

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PACT’s organic underwear makes sure you are comfortable in your own skin with its soft and timeless design. It uses Fairtrade organic cotton and aims to remove hazardous chemicals from its production.

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Made from organically grown bamboo, Boody’s eco underwear support the trend for all things green and ethical. The brand is Oeko-Tex certified and uses a fully closed-loop system to ensure its bamboo-derived fabrics are environmentally friendly.

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Hara means green in Hindi, so the label aims to design for you and our earth – consciously creating pieces that are soft and beautiful with sustainable and ethical practices at the core. Hara uses bamboo as its primary material and minimises the use of packaging and has eliminated hazardous chemicals from its supply chain.

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Underprotection is a Danish brand combining ethics and aesthetics, creating underwear, loungewear, and swimwear from sustainable materials like recycled polyester and organic cotton. All of its packaging, paper, and polybags are either recycled or biodegradable, and it only works with certified factories as it believes “fair working conditions and fair wages are human rights”. Underprotection exists to celebrate women of all kinds and sizes, and its goal is to make them feel as beautiful and comfortable as possible.

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Scandinavia-based Woron creates long-lasting vegan underwear. The brand uses eco-friendly materials, like Modal and is Oeko-Tex certified, meaning the dying of their products is free from toxic chemicals.

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Saint Basics creates the next generation of vegan eco-basics for people inspired by change. The brand is fully Oeko-Tex certified and has adopted the GOTS Code of Conduct to protect its workers’ labour rights.

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Honest Basics is a GOTS-certified basics brand based in Germany. They're on a mission to make sustainable fashion accessible to everyone, by keeping their prices low, making quality basics that everyone has in their wardrobe and by constantly improving the sustainability of their products and their supply chain.

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Mighty Good Basics aims to provide quality, affordable, organic and fair trade underwear, for both men and women. The brand uses GOTs certified cotton, like these knickers which were made by Rajlakshmi Cotton Mills in Kolkata, India, using cotton grown by farmers from the cooperative Chetna Organic, headquartered in Hyderabad India. The brand also uses renewable energy throughout its supply chain.

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A-dam is a fresh brand with character. It uses a high-proportion of eco-friendly materials, like GOTS certified cotton, and limits the amount of chemicals, water and wastewater used in production.

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Munich-based VATTER creates sustainable and long-lasting underwear, using 100& vegan and environmentally-friendly materials, including GOTS certified cotton, without sacrificing design and aesthetics.

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ASKET has been creating timeless wardrobe essentials since 2015 with revolutionary sizing and fair pricing. The brand disregards seasonal collections, cuts out all the middlemen, and only sells directly to you—putting its entire focus on building a single permanent collection.

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