Our Blog: Sustainable Stories

Making Recycled Plastic Earrings From Our Packaging

We’re trying to avoid single-use plastics as much as possible! Plastic bottles, bags and disposable coffee cups are some of the largest plastic offenders, but clothing packaging is also a major c...

How We're Working to Fight Period Poverty in Uganda

The Problem: Period Poverty in Uganda Period poverty affects women, girls and people who menstruate all over the world. Access to menstrual products, safe, hygienic spaces in which to use them, a...

Why is it Important for Businesses to Give Back and Have an Impact?

  It’s never been more important for businesses to think about the social and environmental impact they have through their activities. Donating to charity is a great way that businesses can give b...

A Guide to Checking Yourself - Breast Cancer Awareness

We're so excited to be launching our new pink Future Dreams Collection in collaboration with breast cancer charity Future Dreams! To encourage everyone to check their breasts and chests regularly, ...

How to remove blood stains from your Y.O.U underwear with Lucy, Founder of Save My Knickers.

Yes, you can wear your Y.O.U knickers every day of the month!  As the proud owner of your amazingly comfortably and beautiful Y.O.U underwear you’re going to want to make sure you keep them lookin...

Why We're Anti-Airbrushing and Pro-Ethical Marketing

According to a 2020 study conducted by the Women and Equalities Committee, 61% of all adults feel negatively towards their bodies. Whilst the circulation of flawless, ‘bikini ready’ bodies of mode...

Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality

As part of our commitment to being a business for good, we're working towards 5 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. This World Environment Day, we're partnering with Treedom to further our c...

Our Tree Planting Initiatives as a Sustainable Business

  Trees play an essential role in counterbalancing carbon emissions. Given that the Fashion industry is responsible for 10% of annual carbon emissions (The World Bank), it’s never been more import...

Our Circular Fashion Pledge - The Future of Sustainable Fashion

Y.O.U Underwear is going circular! We’re so proud to be one of 60 brands who have just pledged to implement circular business practices in 2020.  What is circularity in fashion? Circular fashion ...

A Tour of Our Underwear Headquarters!

We thought we’d take you on a quick behind-the-scenes tour of our underwear HQ and explain what happens to our undies once they arrive from our manufacturer in India. We’ve had lots of exciting ar...

India’s Covid Crisis: Here’s How We Can Help

  It’s been over a year since the start of the pandemic and Covid-19 continues to have a devastating impact on communities across the world. In the UK, we are very fortunate to be enjoying the eas...

10 Fast Fashion Facts You Need To Know

Fast fashion is an approach to clothing production that favours fast-moving trends and low prices over environmental and social responsibilities. In the aim of rapidly producing high volumes of cl...

10 things to like about Y.O.U Underwear

  As a small business, hearing our customers feedback is so important to us! We’re proud to have over 100 5* reviews across our website, Etsy and Google. We recently received an amazing testimoni...

Where to Find Sustainable Brands Online

Finding ethical and sustainable products online can often be time consuming, especially if you’re not sure where to start. We’ve put together a list of some of our favourite online shops to hunt f...

5 Questions To Help Spot Greenwashing

It can sometimes be hard to know for sure whether a brand is truly committed to ethics and sustainability. The problem of greenwashing is only becoming more of an issue as methods of misleading cu...

What’s the Importance of Fairtrade?

We're celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight (22nd February – 2nd March 2021), two weeks that are all about sharing the stories of the people who produce the ingredients for some of our favourite product...

Why Should Clothing be Vegan?

Veganuary is all about celebrating different habits of consumption, and challenging ourselves to adopt new attitudes.  Veganism is as relevant for clothes as it is for food! According to WRAP, ap...

Our Impact in 2020

As the year draws to a close, we thought this would be the perfect time to look back at the impact we've had across 2020! At Y.O.U Underwear, we're ultimately motivated by the positive impact we c...

Masks, markets and more – looking back on our year!

To mark the end of 2020, we thought we’d take a look back at some of our highlights from the past year (and try to work out ourselves where the time has gone!).  A normal start to the year We cer...

A Guide to Greenwashing and 7 Ways to Spot It

What is greenwashing?  Greenwashing occurs when a company makes false environmental claims in order to sell more products. The term was first coined in the 1980s, and it has since evolved to denote...