How can sexy underwear make women feel more at ease?
Qian Yue
In recent years, China's underwear industry has developed rapidly, with annual sales exceeding 654.38 billion yuan and an annual growth rate of nearly 20%. Especially in recent days, coinciding with Women's Day, various businesses seized the opportunity to launch promotional activities for women's underwear, which greatly stimulated consumers' enthusiasm for buying.
Underwear is a product that contacts the skin for a long time every day, and its quality is directly related to the health of female consumers. Can ladies' underwear on the market make everyone feel at ease to buy it?
Generally speaking, the qualified rate of women's underwear products in China is increasing year by year, and the overall development of the industry is improving, but at the same time, the phenomenon of unqualified underwear products is still more prominent. Generally speaking, fiber content and color fastness are the main unqualified items, and occasionally serious product safety problems such as formaldehyde and tryptamine phenol exceed the standard, which require consumers to pay more attention.
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Fiber content and color fastness items are mostly unqualified.
In 20 17, AQSIQ randomly checked 8 1 batch of women's underwear products produced by 8 1 enterprises in 10 provinces (cities), focusing on 9 items such as formaldehyde content, pH value, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes, color fastness, fiber content and tensile elastic recovery rate. After inspection, two important safety items-decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes and formaldehyde content all meet the standard requirements. The main quality problem found in the spot check is that the fiber content of two batches of products is unqualified.
Jiangsu Province is one of the major provinces producing underwear (bras). In March this year, Jiangsu Quality Supervision Bureau conducted a spot check on women's underwear (bras) in physical stores and e-commerce platforms. The results of spot check showed that 6 batches of 97 batches of products were unqualified, and the qualified rate was 93.8%. From the price point of view, 20 batches of bras within 50 yuan were randomly selected, and 16 batches were qualified; Bras in the range of ~ 150 yuan in 50 yuan were randomly selected in 19 batches and qualified in 17 batches; 1Bras above 50 yuan were randomly selected in 1 1 batch, and1/batch was qualified. The results of spot check show that the quality of bras with prices below 50 yuan cannot be guaranteed. The bureau advises consumers to buy branded underwear products through formal channels, such as large shopping malls and specialty stores.
"The underwear is a little hard, and the skin is worn out", "It is uncomfortable and rough to wear" ... Click on the after-sales comments of an underwear store on an e-commerce platform, and the bad reviews on the comfort of the underwear abound. These problems all stem from the unqualified fiber content in women's underwear. Fiber composition, as the main quality index of textiles, reflects the real attributes of clothing fabrics. Different fiber content represents different comfort levels and is the main reference index for consumers to buy products.
According to the standard, if the materials that enterprises need to use clearly on products do not match the test results and the actual fiber content does not match the marked content, they can be judged as unqualified. The sampling results of Jiangsu Quality Supervision Bureau show that the name and content of label fiber of 5 batches of unqualified products are inconsistent with the actual situation, that is to say, the composition content of product fabric is inconsistent with the label. In this regard, you Li, deputy director of Changzhou Fiber Inspection Institute of Jiangsu Province, explained: "Some small enterprises have a weak sense of quality and rely entirely on product identification. They have not carried out quality inspection before use, and the purchased raw materials themselves are not up to standard; In addition, in order to save costs, some enterprises mark low-priced optical fiber components as high-priced optical fiber components. "
Ms. Lin, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, was very worried about the fading of underwear recently: "After washing the water for five times, the water is still red, and I dare not wear it at all." During the Spring Festival this year, she bought six sets of the latest red "New Year" underwear in a brand store. To her surprise, these underwear faded after water.
Color fastness is a safety index required by the national General Safety Technical Specification for Textile Products, which refers to the fading degree of dyed or printed fabrics under the action of external factors (such as extrusion, friction, washing, rain, sweat stains, etc.). ) is an important index of fabric in the process of use or processing. Usually, when the color fastness is high, textiles are not easy to fade, stain and dye migration when subjected to various external forces. When the color fastness of textiles is poor, decoloration, staining and dye migration will occur, which will have great influence on textile enterprises and consumers. Taking the color fastness to perspiration as an example, the composition of human sweat is mainly divided into acid liquor and alkali liquor, and long-term soaking will cause serious discoloration and contamination of textiles.
Professionals remind that the dye may be transferred to other items during the wearing process of clothing with unqualified dyeing fastness index, which directly affects the performance of clothing and other items; More seriously, if the dye falls off and adheres to human skin, it may also cause harm to the body.
Problems such as formaldehyde and aromatic amines exceeding the standard need to be vigilant.
Underwear is in direct contact with women's skin, so the quality and safety of underwear has become the most concerned issue for consumers, and quality and safety is the most basic prerequisite for underwear wearing. "The new underwear has a pungent smell, which makes people feel chest tightness and dizziness. After washing, the taste is still very strong, and there are allergic symptoms such as taste and red itching on the hands. " Recently, a netizen who bought four brand underwear described his experience like this. According to industry insiders, this is probably caused by excessive formaldehyde in underwear.
In fact, not only domestic underwear has been repeatedly found to have excessive formaldehyde, but also big-name imported underwear has similar problems. 2065438+September 2007, Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found that a batch of imported "Victoria's Secret" underwear formaldehyde exceeded the standard. Experts remind that manufacturers and consumers should be alert to these problems and avoid the health risks they bring.
"In order to achieve crease-proof, shrink-proof and flame-retardant effects in the fabric production of clothing, at the same time, in order to maintain the durability of printing and dyeing and improve the handle, formaldehyde needs to be added. Cotton fabrics use more formaldehyde, because cotton fabrics are easy to wrinkle and shrink, and the use of additives containing formaldehyde can improve the hardness of cotton fabrics. " Tian Xiuying, a technician from the Quality Inspection Center of Shanghai Quality Supervision Bureau, said that formaldehyde is carcinogenic, so China's Basic Safety Technical Specification for Textile Products clearly stipulates that the formaldehyde content of products that directly contact human skin must be less than 75mg/Kg.
Compared with formaldehyde, aromatic amine dyes known as "invisible killers" are more toxic and carcinogenic. Formaldehyde is easily soluble in water. After consumers buy underwear, most of them can be removed by washing. However, aromatic amine fuel is generally insoluble in water, colorless and tasteless, which can only be found through technical inspection and cannot be ruled out. Aromatic amines will produce compounds after decomposition under specific conditions of wearing or storage, which will be absorbed by the skin and become the cause of human diseases. Experts say that the excessive aromatic amines in knitted underwear have a lot to do with the color. When printing and dyeing dark fabrics, more chemicals are used and the safety risk is greater. Choose bright colors carefully when buying underwear.
Experts said that there are subjective and objective reasons for the quality problems of women's underwear, such as technical level and safety awareness, and some businesses have weak legal awareness and lack of business ethics. As far as consumers are concerned, many people generally have problems such as lack of quality awareness or common sense in product selection. Some consumers are afraid of trouble and lack awareness of rights protection, which objectively "connives" the circulation of unqualified products in the market.
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