Vasaloppet and AnnaPS garments

We are proud....lot of diabetics are participating in the long race Wasaloppet in cross country skiing, 90 km, next week.

Lots of them use AnnaPS garments with pockets for the pump or to secure functionality for the bs-meter. A working bs-meter is important to have even if you have a cgm on.

Lot of diabetics have the pump in boxers with pocket and the bs-meter in the tank top with pocket from www.annaps.com

We wish all good luck in the race !!!!

Tank top with pockets  from AnnaPS- especially for diabetics, pump, pen, bs-meter

Cold weather- protect your bs-meter

When it is cold outside and your bs-meter gets cold it doesn´t work. That can be a critical moment for us with diabetes. When I go out skiing I really need my bs-meter and to make sure it work I wear it in pocket in AnnaPS tank top. If I would like to reach the bs-meter easier I place the tank top over the layer 1 and layer 2. Thanks Josefine Palmén that teached me this.

You find the tank tops on www.annaps.com and you can choose different models, woman and men. You can choose two different colors and thin (white) or thicker(black). We love them both.

Tank top for kids

Tank top for men

Tank top for women

Sustainable fashion part 5- common way of producing thread in textile industry, and what does AnnaPS making different.

In this blogger we explain a common procedure in textile industry, to make the thread from raw material as cotton, wool, oil, silk, wood etc.

If you would like to make a different, welcome to test wonderful and beautiful underwear's from AnnaPS ®. There are underwear's with or without special pockets. Welcome to our webshop at http://www.annaps.com/en/

For AnnaPS ® it is important to limit the effect on the environment and we put a lot of effort to minimize the effect on the environment during the production of the thread.

Here you can read about a common way to produce thread, AnnaPS ® have made a lot of different choises make this in another way:

Common procedure in textile industry when making thread:

The process from raw material to fabric involves several steps. The raw material is sent from the producer of raw material (that can be a sheep farmer who produces the wool) to the next step which is to make the fibers of that are going to be spun a thread.

AnnaPS ® make the underwear’s from wood, we use an eco-viscose called Tencel. The trees come from FSC marked forests and are renewable. We like that.

It is quite common that the raw material is sent quite far to be processed in the next step and the environment is usually hot and humid. There are plenty of insects that like to eat the raw material and it can easily become moldy during transport. Here is when chemicals are used to “protect” the fabric from bugs.

AnnaPS ® has chosen to make the production in the EU because it does not require chemical treatment for transport. Shipment takes shorter time and the environment is cooler, which means that anti-mold control is redundant. This means we effect the environment less.

When the raw material comes to the next factory  these chemicals are washed out. Unfortunately, there are manufacturers who don’t take care of waste water in a good way, and chemicals are being released straight out which poisons the soil and water.

AnnaPS ® follows EU chemicals legislation REACH which regulates the use of toxic chemicals and handling of chemicals also. It’s a tough environmental legislation. This means we have highest requirements when using chemicals and there is no need risk to poison the water when washing the raw material.

When the fiber is spun into a thread, one will want the color faded down to white so it would  guarantees the right and even color when dyeing.

Now there is a white thread that is ready to be sent to factories for weaving or knitting.

AnnaPS is designed and made in Sweden - we care about our beautiful nature