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Your Choice Of Clothing Should Be SmartWool
Remember grandma’s wool scarf she made and gave to you and when you wrapped it around your neck, you began to itch. Well, SmartWool will give you all the good benefits that wool can without the itch. Smart Wool has combined their prevailing technology and the natural sheep’s wool together to give you the best feeling wool products to wear next to your skin. So soft and comfortable you would not think it is wool.

You will love the smooth feel of SmartWool clothing year round, yes, year round. Because of wools natural fiber characteristics of being odor free and its ability to breathe and regulate body temperature, you will like to wear it year round. It is nature’s renewable resource. The health benefits that make it a smart choice of clothing is that it moves moisture off the skin before it liquefies and that keeps bacteria from forming. Wearing SmartWool products benefit you health wise and a benefit to the environment.

Icebraker uses wool that comes from a sheep breed in New Zealand called merino, so it costs much less to manufacture than fossil fuel. It is a great way to go green, keep warm in the winter, and cool in the summer. Allergies to wool is rare and if experienced, it is usually comes from the lanolin on the fiber. Another good reason to wear wool is its flame retardant properties. Wool has UV properties that make it hard to ignite and burn and it will not melt because it is a natural fiber not a synthetic oil based fiber.

SmartWool is a unique wool product that is shrink resistant and easy to care for. Many SmartWool items can be machine washed using a gentle wash cycle with cool to lukewarm water. The socks and underwear can be machine dried with wrong side out. Sweaters can be machine washed then laid flat to dry on a sweater rack. Another plus for SmartWool products is the durability. Wool wears well and stays crisp looking as long as you take care of it properly.

If you love to ski or hike the mountains in the winter then your wardrobe should include socks, scarves, and sweaters, not to mention your underwear from the SmartWool Company. You will enjoy the soft feel of wool and the warmth and protection it gives you from the cold climate in the mountains. After all, being warm and dry is half the fun of a winter sport.

For more information on the SmartWool products or the company, you can go on line to www.SmartWool.com to get more information on their clothing lines and company history. They do more than just make the clothes. They believe in giving back to their community and helping the environment.