What is EXODUS underwear made of?

Start with the fabric

It is 100% GOTS-certified organic cotton, knit at 200gsm. GOTS is a field-to-garment standard: the certification follows the fiber through growing and processing instead of being stamped on a finished product. There is no polyester and no elastane in the fabric, so the give comes from the knit and the fabric weight.

A cotton knit relaxes slightly over a day and comes back in the wash. See 100% cotton boxer briefs for what that feels like in wear.

Component by component

Two rows say “not published”. Leaving them out would make the table look more complete than it is. Sewing thread is a small fraction of a garment by mass, and in most apparel it is polyester. We have not published ours, so we do not imply it is cotton.

The two certifications, and what each one is for

They get used interchangeably. They cover different things.

GOTS, the Global Organic Textile Standard, is a supply-chain standard. It certifies organic fiber content and the processing that turns fiber into a garment: which chemical inputs are permitted, how wastewater is handled, and social criteria at the facilities involved.

OEKO-TEX Standard 100 is a product test. It takes the finished article and tests it against limit values for a defined list of harmful substances, with tighter limits for articles in direct skin contact, which is the class underwear sits in.

Neither substitutes for the other. GOTS does not lab-test the finished garment. OEKO-TEX says nothing about whether the cotton was organically grown. The full breakdown is in what makes underwear non-toxic.

What the testing found, and what that sentence means

Goshen has been third-party lab tested clear of azo dyes, heavy metals, and carcinogens, alongside the OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certification on the dyes.

“Tested clear of” means: for the substances within the test’s scope, the measured level was below the standard’s limit value. It does not mean a lab confirmed the absence of every molecule. No test does that. Detection limits and substance lists are finite. “Not detected” describes one assay for one compound at one sensitivity.

That is still far more than an untested garment can say. It is just not the unlimited claim the phrase suggests.

What is deliberately absent

• No elastane in the panels. The give comes from the knit and the fabric weight. See 100% cotton boxer briefs.
• No polyester in the fabric, so no synthetic fiber shedding from the panels in the wash.
• No sewn-in tag.
• No water-repellent, stain-release, or anti-static finish. Those finishes are the usual route for fluorinated chemistry into a garment. Underwear needs none of them.

Limits of this page

The gaps in our own disclosure, what the certifications do not cover, and what we have not measured yet.

• The sewing thread composition is not published. In most apparel it is polyester. We are not claiming ours is cotton.
• The lab reports are not posted. You are taking our written claim, not reading a document. That is weaker than a link, and we will not call it transparency until the documents are up.
• GOTS does not test the finished garment for residue levels, and OEKO-TEX Standard 100 does not certify organic content. Two certifications do not add up to one bigger one.
• Neither standard covers microplastic shedding. There is no certification for it. The no-shedding argument for this garment rests on the composition, not on a mark.
• We make no health, hormonal, or fertility claim. Materials and certification are what we can evidence. A garment is not a medical treatment.
• Certification is annual and article-specific. An OEKO-TEX certificate covers a defined article for a defined period. It is not a permanent property of a brand, ours included. For any badge, ask which article and which year.