GoCoCo - Questions and Answers

What can GoCoCo™ do for me?
GoCoCo™ provide an all-in-one, natural solution for the comfort, design and quality you desire in your sport clothing. Whatever your particular need is, GoCoCo™ products provide the ultimate in evaporative cooling, odor management and UV protection without any chemical treatments.

Why is GoCoCo™ a "green" choice?
The Cocona fiber is produced from an all-natural technology that incorporates activated carbon made from recycled coconut shells from the food industry. The GoCoCo™ garments have a substantially shorter drying time than equivalent garments in other materials, which decrease the level of energy usage between 22-35%. See test! The GoCoCo™ garments provide the user sun protection without adding any chemicals. Most sunscreen lotions have chemical adding that goes out in the water and into your skin. See this article!

Is the fabric chemically treated?
No. Cocona® has developed a powerful technology that incorporates activated carbon derived from coconut shells into polymers, such as polyester fibers and yarns.

What is evaporative cooling and why does a GoCoCo™ garment dry faster?
Evaporative cooling speaks to how Cocona® rapidly moves perspiration over an enormous surface area created by the pores of the activated carbon, accelerating evaporation similar to how your body cools itself. See picture! A good example would be wiping a chalkboard with a damp towel. The moisture quickly evaporates as it spread over a large porous material. Interesting to know is that a gram of activated carbon has an area of a soccer field in a spread out format. This is also one of the reasons why it dries up quickly. See test!

Explain 50 UPF
Ultraviolet radiation (UV) is a natural component of sunlight. The Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) represents how well a fabric protects your skin from harmful UV. UPF ranges from 0 to 50. A 50 rating, thereby the highest possible rating, indicates that 98% of UV is blocked. This can be compared to a white cotton t-shirt that have around 7+ UPF. See test!

Is activated carbon safe?
Yes. Activated carbon has been used for centuries. It is used to purify drinking water for a large number of communities in the world. Certain grades of activated carbon are food grade and can be ingested to adsorb poisons when toxic substances are accidentally ingested. The activated carbon Cocona® uses comes from coconut shells.

Do I have to do anything different when I wash my GoCoCo™ garments?
No. Garments incorporating Cocona® yarn or fiber should be washed as recommended by the garment/fabric manufacturer. To maximize the benefits of the technology, Cocona® does recommend that garments are washed and dried using a heat source of some kind (i.e.: clothes dryer, hair dryer). It is also recommended to use detergents that are scent-free and omit dryer sheets to obtain maximum performance.

What is the difference between this technology and an anti-microbial?
Activated carbon adsorbs odors on the surface of the activated carbon in pores. The odors are trapped and cannot be detected. In order to detect an odor the molecule needs to be air-born and come into contact with your nose. Anti-microbials reduce the growth of microbes and/or kills the microbes. The anti-microbial agent needs to come in contact with the microbe to be effective.

Why should I buy a GoCoCo™ product verses other products?
By combining multiple benefits and features into one environmentally friendly technology, GoCoCo™ garments provide both comfort and protection in a wide variety of environmental challenges. Why not buy one product that provides greater utility, comfort and versatility?!

How long will all the great features last?The great features that the Cocona® yarn provide GoCoCo™ garments with will retain or even improve their performance over the life of the product. The technology is permanently embedded into the fiber. Unlike topical chemical treatments, Cocona® natural technology™ will not wash off or wear out.

Is it possible for me to keep the warmth in a GoCoCo™ garment?
As a GoCoCo™ garment is a dry garment that doesn’t keep any moister; you will keep the warmth better than with other similar fabrics without Cocona®.

How did someone come up with the idea to use coconut shells?
The inventor of Cocona® is Gregory Häggquist. He has a Swedish/Italy origin and is said to have discovered the coconut shells ability to adsorb odour when he as a young boy went to visit his grandmother in Italy. His grandmother always put in some coconut shells in the open fire after having prepared salami to get rid of the strong garlic smell.

What happens to the garment when it gets torn?
The more you use a garment with Cocona® fabric the typical features for Cocona® will improve. This because furthest fibres in the yarn are being torn of first and then the percentage of Cocona® in the garment higher which is positive.

Why should I not use softener when I wash?
The softener clogs the pore in the fabric which decreases the performance of Cocona’s features. Furthermore, as the garment isn’t static softener isn’t needed as well as when not using softener you will decrease the negative impact on our nature which softener causes.

What happens when I wash my GoCoCo™ garments?
You can never wash out Cocona’s good features from your garment as these are natural features from the activated carbon. Every time you wash your garment the features will be reactivated. It’s important not to use scented products as well as softener as these clogs the pores. To achieve the highest performance you should wash your garment over 40 degrees and use tumble drying. The drying time in a tumble drier decrease with 35 % with a Cocona® garment compared to a similar material in polyester. This will make you save 22 % in energy. If you compare a Cocona® product to cotton or a bamboo product you will use 52 % less energy to dry the Cocona® garment.

What can GoCoCo™ guarantee?
GoCoCo™ can guarantee that our GoCoCo™ garments:

Dries up to three times faster than other comparable materials.
Odour management, which keeps the smell away.
Protects against the sun, 35-50 UPF.
Antistatic

The guarantee is applied as long as the garment is taken care of as recommended.

My GoCoCo™ socks smells sweat from the feet?
The Cocona® material that is used in GoCoCo’s garments has a odour management control proved by test. Odour and smell from sweat of feet are subjective values and is therefore hard to decide how much or how little it smells. It is of course important that you wash your GoCoCo™ garments when you have sweated in them as you do with other garments. It is important that you wash the garments as the wash reactivates the features of your GoCoCo™ garments. If you take care of your GoCoCo™ garment as advised, we can assure you that you will decrease the smell of your sweat compared to if you had been wearing a garment without Cocona®. See smell test!

If I regret my purchase from GoCoCo™?
You are welcome to send your items back within 30 days if you regret your purchase. To be able to take the item back it should be unused and undamaged.

What is a Cocona® material?
The Cocona® material is produced from activated carbon from coconut shells, which is infused into the textile fibre by Cocona Inc. patent method. The coconut shell is a waste product from the food industry and the activated carbon is known since immemorial times to absorb poisons and odours. It is today also used in the filter industry. Many tests done by Cocona Inc. has shown that the activated carbon from coconut shells gives the best result.