Why BASK™ ?

Now that you understand all benefits from sleeping with silk pillowcase and using silk scrunchies/silk hair ties for your hair.

You might wonder why do you want to buy your silk products from BASK?

Let us tell you what differentiate us from all the players out there. 💕

Are you ready? 👇

First, let's talk about the our signature BASK™ fabric.

We use BASK™ fabric for all our silk pillowcases, silk scrunchies/hair ties and silk sleep masks. All the BASK™ fabric is OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 Certified and our product class is Product class I: Articles for babies and toddlers. (The highest and safest level of product class)

What does OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 Certified mean to you?

The Standard 100 tests check for prohibited azo dyes, formaldehyde, nickel etc, and other chemicals that are harmful to human, and this check includes threads, buttons, zippers and linings used.

So, you can rest assured that products that passed the stringent check of STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® is free of harmful substances. It stands for customer confidence and high product safety.

What does Product Class 1 mean to you?

The OEKO-TEX® laboratory tests include around 100 test parameters and take into account the intended use of the textiles. The more intensive the skin contact of a textile product, the stricter the limit values for each product class.

For the silk fabric to be qualified as Product Class 1, the textile (every thread, button and other accessories, need to be tested for harmful substances and meet the most stringent criteria) so that the product will be safe for more intensive the skin contact of a textile product for even babies and young toddlers.

Pay extra attention to this, mummies or soon-to-be mummies. As a mummy ourselves, we understand how important this is. 🙌

Generally, the most common product class for other silk fabrics in the market is Product Class II.

For your reference, the test criteria for product class is as below, if you need more information, you may view the full article at OEKO-TEX website here.

Product class I: Articles for babies and toddlers
Product class II: Articles with direct contact to the skin
Product class III: Articles without direct contact to the skin
Product class IV: Home textiles

Secondly, our unique luxurious look that complements your bedroom and your style like no others.

Our unique formulas and our signature charmeuse weave for BASK™ fabric perfected pure mulberry silk with ultimate shine, softness and durability.

Our BASK™ silk fabric is

✔️ Incredibly soft. Imagine fluid buttery feel on your facial skin and hand when you touch it

✔️ Impeccably shiny and ravishing with our unique sheen. Sits nicely and on point in your bedroom, on your wrist, on your hair...

✔️ Exceptionally smooth. Non-grainy looking, unlike other silk fabric

✔️ Our unique weave that makes the silk fabric not easily snagged.For example, our silk fabric is not easily snagged by fingernails, unlike other flimsy silk fabric, that's mean no more heart ache when you accidentally scratched your pillowcase

Check out our current colour swatches💋 , we've taken great pains to test and develop gorgeous hues that will blow your mind

We use 6A grade raw silk for our BASK™ silk fabric production.

Like diamond 💎 , the raw silk has a grade. The raw silk is divided into 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, A, B, C, D, E, and F, a total of 11 grades. The most commonly used 6 grades are from 6A to A.

6A is the grade indicating the finest quality for the raw silk.

Just like diamonds, only the finest quality delivers the most brilliant shine. ✨

6A Grade silk is the longest silk fiber. The long strand is one of the important factors that makes the silk fabric much more luxurious looking, shiny and durable.

To achieve the highest 6A Grade, it takes skilled and seasoned professionals to meticulously produce and select the most premium silk cocoons for silk fabric production.

A comparison between BASK™ Pearl White Silk Pillowcase and silk pillowcase fabric from other brands.

As you can see, BASK™ silk is non-grainy, has incredibly smooth fabric surface and it also features unique luxurious sheen/shine even under normal lighting.

Thirdly, check out the exquisite stitching and attention to details on our products.

All our products are developed in coordination with one of the largest and longest running silk producing enterprise in the world. They take great pride in the quality of the silk they produce.

A close up on the craftsmanship for our world-class 22 momme black silk pillowcase.

A close up on our navy silk hair ties. Could you spot the sewing edge at the connection?

Silk hair ties close up - BASK baskinsilk.com

For all our silk scrunchies and silk hair ties, a very generous amount of BASK™ silk fabric is used to create plenty of gorgeous folds in such a small hair ties.

The elastane we used is imported elastane that is highly elastic and highly durable to ensure it provides just the right amount of hold without being too tight or too loose.

(long story, to be continued...) ☺️