A warning for people who are allergic to latex: it turns out that tagless labels can often involve latex based “paints” that will stay on the surface of the clothing item, similar to silk screen paints (which also can use latex).
Latex allergies are common to many professions that are regularly exposed to latex, such as doctors and nurses and other health professionals. However, any kind of exposure can contribute to allergic sensitization – even repeated exposure to small amounts. This means that your infant could be developing a sensitivity from wearing that cute outfit, if it has a tagless label.
If you have severe latex allergies, this is something to watch for. Many brands of clothing are moving to tagless labels, in response to consumer demand. However, it may take consumer complaints to ensure these labels are latex free.
Source: Fashion-Incubator; Design Loft
Hellen
said on February 8, 2010
the main reason for causing the rash and allergy on the skin is that the organic solvent still remains on the clothes.
these tagless label manufacturers use organic-solvent chemical materials ,such as PVC,phthalate, etc. although these organic-soluble materials can meet certain safety standard ,the remain of the harmful elements is unavoidable .
However , water-soluble material can be cleaned by water .its environmental effect can not be achieved by those organic-soluble material.in January 2009, Avery Dennison group began to adopt this water-soluble material .
in fact,there are still many organic -solvent tagless labels on the current market. the main defect of these tagless labels is that it has semitransparent glue edge around the label .the glue is not latex but adhesive .
if others want to buy tagless clothes ,please pay special attention to it .
you can also look at the news about Carter’s at the following link :
http://www.tagless.hk/en/info_detail.asp?id=5
hope it will help everyone a lot.
