Raw cotton for vaping?

[willsketchforfood]

I have seen really inexpensive, small hand-cranked models, but my pasta roller looks like it would do the trick.

I can't seem to find any, can you share a link to the cheap ones you saw?

 

[stevegmu]

Thanks for all the answers! So they use chemicals to harvest the raw cotton? With all the dust particles + harvest chemicals won't it be a little more riskier to use it then than getting an organic processed one from walgreens/cvs?

Organic raw cotton does not use chemicals, is hand picked, doesn't use chemicals to process and is not made out of gin trash- which has elevated levels of chemicals.

 

[stevegmu]

I can't seem to find any, can you share a link to the cheap ones you saw?

Turns out it was a decorative piece. I'm going to try the pasta roller.

 

[willsketchforfood]

I emailed the cottonman.com site about their cottons and this is what he said:

My cotton is not organic. But nothing was sprayed on the hand picked seed cotton after it opened up and we picked it.

 

[stevegmu]

Short of finding a a source for organic, unprocessed, raw, hand-picked cotton, I'm getting some seeds, turning them over to the wife and in the greenhouse they go. Maybe by the time the cotton plants produce bolls, I'll have found a rebuildable to work on...

 

[sgenn99]

His cotton is raw, but it's not organic, according to him. I'm looking for Unbleached cotton balls, and I haven't found them. Even the organic, natural stuff is treated with hydrogen peroxide to whiten it, and i'm wondering if anyone knows where to find Unbleached cotton, and if it exists.

 

[ScottP]

If the chemicals used to harvest cotton were left in the processed cotton at levels even remotely hazardous to people then cotton wouldn't be so widely used in the medical field, especial on OPEN WOUNDS. Really which way would more likely transfer the chemicals to your blood steam, inhalation or packing a wound with the same cotton?

 

[PaulBHC]

I drive past cotton fields and the other day I saw the remnants of the big bundle that they truck away. You could fill trash bags full of what is left behind and blows along the road. But then I wondered if it is really any safer than processed cotton.

Meanwhile someone mentioned hemp fiber. Now that some states have medical and other laws allowing plants, I wonder what they do with the leftovers and how does one make usable fibers?

 

[Bunnykiller]

What chemical do they spray cotton with to defoliate the leaves before picking.

probably nicotine gotta watch out for that stuff