Dangerous Ultra Fast Fashion

• Author: GREAT MASTER VIKRANT ROHIN
• Date: MAY 3, 2023

Nowadays, every second woman wears clothes made of viscose, but do you know how dangerous it is?

• If you look at their advertisements, you will notice that they produce natural and healthy items, but this is not the case.
• Many people think of viscose rayon as a “green” material, but the truth behind its production is far more sinister.

Why Is Viscose So Famous In The Fashion Industry?

Viscose is frequently promoted as a more environmentally friendly alternative to cotton or polyester. (A bastard example of panic marketing.)

• It is widely used in the fashion industry because it looks luxurious but isn’t expensive.
• Its soft feel and silk-like sheen make viscose rayon popular. Viscose rayon is very breathable, making it a cool fabric for stylish summer wear.
• It’s commonly used to make summer dresses, skirts, soft blouses, and synthetic velvet.

How Dangerous Is Viscose

Throughout most of the 20th century, viscose rayon manufacturing was inextricably linked to widespread, severe, and often lethal illness among those employed in making it.

During its manufacturing, carbon disulfide is mixed with sulfuric acid, which is then mixed with wood pulp, and that is lethal for the human body. (Nagda study, India)

• The basic industrial manufacturing steps. Cellulose wood pulp is treated with caustic soda at a high pH; carbon disulfide is added to that solution; the mix is churned, allowed to “ripen” and then mixed with more caustics to form a syrupy semiliquid that is the eponymous viscosity of the process. The viscose syrup is forced through tiny spinning nozzles submerged in a bath of sulfuric acid, like sprinklers irrigating a Hadean garden.
• Viscose is behind another product closely related to rayon — cellophane — and both rely on carbon disulfide as their key manufacturing constituent. Viscose, a technological innovation in its day, was once a very big business.

Medical Proof

In the many years that followed, more and more medical evidence documented in exquisite detail the many ways in which carbon disulfide adversely affects the nervous system.

• Carbon disulfide causes toxic degenerative brain disease and acts by damaging the sensory capacity of nerves (including those responsible for vision). After years of exposure, even more insidious carbon disulfide damage appears through an increased risk of heart disease and stroke. Only in recent decades have these latter effects been established conclusively.
• Carbon disulfide effects on the body: exposure can cause dizziness, poor sleep, headaches, anxiety, anorexia, weight loss, and vision changes. It can harm the eyes, kidneys, blood, heart, liver, nerves, and skin. Workers may be harmed by carbon disulfide.
• Sulfuric acid effects on the body: exposure to sulfuric acid mist can irritate the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs, and at higher levels can cause a buildup of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary oedema).

Viscose rayon is based on cellulose. That part may be ‘green,’ but the chemical used to make the viscose isn’t. It’s a toxic chemical called carbon disulfide.

Author: Master Vikrant Rohin is an international author, and more than four countries’ schools are using his books in the core curriculum of education. He is the author of twenty different subject books. History, Economics, Chemistry, Physics, English, Biology, Geography etc. Most of his students hold high-ranking positions in the public and private sectors. He has cracked the world’s toughest exam, the "Civil Services Examination (UPSC)," eight times. Always a topper in academics, he was also a top-class sportsman, a state boxer, and a basketball player.