What does 75% Down Mean?
I get this question from consumers about once a week. Normally, the questions starts like this:
‘I see that it only contains 75% down - but I want 100% down’
Well the reality is that our federal government has a specific guideline when it comes to how much down is in a product. The rule from the FTC states that to call an item a down something - it must contain a mnimum of 75% down clusters - the remainder can be down fibers or small feathers, etc.
There are very few cases where ou see a number higher then 75% on the law label - usually they are items that have high fill power - where by default you need more down clusters to increase the fill power count. For example our 800 fill power white goose down likely has a 85% down number on it’s law label.
Short of hand tweezering out loose fibers and small feathers it is impossible to have a 100% down anything.
If you were wondering what the other 25% is - it is a mixture of either:
- More down clusters
- Loose down fibers (the parts that break off from the down cluster)
- Small feathers
All the down used by DOWNLITE complies to it’s RestAssured standards.
Posted in Down Talk on Fri, December 12th, 2008 at 4:28 am.
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