GOTS-Certified Organic Cotton  ·  Undyed  ·  Unbleached  ·  No Biocides  ·  Zero Plastic Packaging
Base Layer System / Edition 01

To make toxic clothing unacceptable.

Raw, undyed, GOTS-certified organic cotton. Finished with nothing. The clean structural layer between you and everything else.

The ledger

What’s in your socks — and what we left out. We publish both columns. Most brands only show you one.

Unit 02 base layer socks in raw, undyed greige organic cotton, folded on a bone plaster ledge in morning light ST-U02-001 / Greige organic cotton
01 / The question

Most people never ask what their clothing is made of. You read the label on your food. Your socks sit against your skin all day — and almost no one reads theirs. What’s in it should be the first thing you ask, not the last.

02 / The problem

The standard sock is a finished product. We mean that literally.

A conventional sock is dyed for colour, bleached for white, brightened to look cleaner than it is, and often resin-finished so it holds its shape. Some are treated with antimicrobial biocides — silver, triclosan — to mask odour.

None of that is cotton. All of it is added after the fibre, and most of it stays in the fabric you pull over your skin.

STROMA leaves every one of those steps out. Not reduced. Out.

See the Full Ledger →
Macro detail of the raw, unfinished 3x1 rib knit of the Unit 02 sock — undyed cotton fibre with natural slubs
03 / The environment

Your feet are the test your socks fail.

Warm, damp, enclosed, and in constant contact with skin for hours at a time — exactly the condition under which dyes, finishes, and residual treatment chemicals are most mobile. The part of you that sweats the most is the part you should treat the most carefully.

250,000
Sweat glands across your two feet — the densest skin on your body
½ pint
Moisture your feet can put out in a single day
0
Dyes, finishes, or biocides in a STROMA sock for that environment to release

STROMA gives that environment nothing to release. No dye to run. No finish to break down. No biocide to leach. Just cotton in the state it was grown.

04 / The ledger

What’s present. What’s absent. Both, in full.

Present

  • Organic cotton93–95%, GOTS-certified, greige (raw)
  • Bio-elastane5–7%, castor-derived, fully encased
  • Citric-acid softeningFrom a natural source

Absent

  • Synthetic dyesNo colour, ever
  • Chlorine bleachUnbleached
  • Optical brightenersNone
  • Formaldehyde finishesNo wrinkle resins
  • Silicone softenersNo synthetic hand-feel
  • Antimicrobial biocidesNo silver, no triclosan

Every product page and every hangtag carries this ledger. The list does the persuading.

05 / The state

The way cotton comes before anyone changes it.

Undyed.

No colour is applied to the cloth — ever. The off-white you see is the true tone of the cotton.

Unbleached.

No chlorine, no peroxide. We don’t whiten what nature didn’t.

Unfinished.

No softeners, brighteners, or wrinkle resins. The fabric leaves the factory in its greige state.

06 / The system

Base Layer System

Worn closest to the body, stripped of anything that doesn’t belong. Each STROMA piece is built from raw, untreated, GOTS-certified organic cotton and finished with nothing. One standard, applied without exception.

GOTS-Certified Organic Cotton · Undyed · Unbleached · No Biocides · Castor-Derived Elastane · Unbleached Kraft Packaging, Zero Plastic