Audited, and by whom.

The traceable product label, and the one worth understanding first, because it is not a claim on its own — it is only issued where the article has passed STANDARD 100 testing and the facility that made it holds STeP. A buyer can enter the label ID on oeko-tex.com and see where the towel in their hand was made.

Label ID

M2DP5D6N5 · issued by Hohenstein

Check it yourself

at oeko-tex.com — the label ID is the point. You do not have to take our word for any of this.

Every component of the finished article tested for substances known to be harmful to health — yarn, thread, dye, finish, down to the sewn-in label — with limits tightening the closer the article sits to skin. For a towel, that is the entire product.

Certificate

09.HIN.65260 · issued by Hohenstein

A licence to describe cotton as Egyptian. That is a claim about origin rather than quality, and one made routinely without grounds; here the origin is verifiable through purchase invoices, and the Cotton Egypt Association can ask to see them.

Licence

1769 · Cotton Egypt Association

Sustainable Textile Production — an audit of the plant itself: chemical management, environmental performance, working conditions, health and safety, quality management. It is the half of MADE IN GREEN that a product test cannot cover. The audited facility also meets ZDHC MRSL 3.1, which is the restricted-substance list a brand's chemical team will ask about by name.

Certificate

24000321 · Hohenstein · valid to 31 January 2029

Scope

Weaving, knitting, dyeing and making up of terry products and jersey sheets

The certificate — click to read it

The management system behind every other claim on this site. It is why a shade tolerance or an inspection level is a procedure with records rather than a habit.

Certificate

SCC/2601SE/3127 · QFS Management Systems LLP, accredited by the Standards Council of Canada · valid to 29 January 2029, subject to annual surveillance

The certificate — click to read it

The system behind the effluent plant, the husk-fired boilers and the water figures on our sustainability page. Certified management is what turns those from facts into a practice.

Certificate

SCC/2411SE/2489 · QFS Management Systems LLP · valid to 12 November 2027, subject to annual surveillance

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Organic fibre tracked through every stage of processing, rather than certified once at the farm and assumed thereafter. It is a chain-of-custody standard, which is why the mill has to hold it: a certified bale does not make a certified towel.

Recycled content verified along the chain of custody, with social and environmental criteria applied at every site that handles the material.

Tracks recycled material through the chain and stops there. A buyer asking for recycled content will usually say which of the two they mean; GRS is the one that also asks how the site is run.

Tracks how much organic fibre is in the finished article, without GOTS's processing requirements. Useful where the answer needed is a percentage rather than a process.

A labour standard, audited on site: working hours, wages, freedom of association, health and safety, and no child or forced labour. It is the one a retail compliance team asks for by name, because it is about the people in the building rather than the cloth.

Not a certification, and we do not show it as one. Sedex is the platform members use to share audit results, so ours are visible to your compliance team without a separate request.