Boosting sales with alpaca fibre

Alpacas are more than just friendly fertilisers, they can produce some of the world's most beautiful garments and are great for the environment too and many businesses are playing on this to boost sales.

Alpaca wool is not only about five times warmer than sheep's wool and causes less allergies compared to sheep's wool but it is also alot easier to process as it doesnt need to be chemically cleaned to rid itself of lanolin grease unlike sheep's wool, making alpaca fibre much more environmentally friendly. Fleeces can actually come off the alpaca relatively clean and ready to be spun bar a few strands of straw.

Erica Dwyer, the owner of an alpaca farm called Hamden Hills Alpaca Farm says "Like any harsh detergent, you don't like the harsh chemicals being used and going back into the environment itself. Alpacas [are] so clean you could actually spin it right off the animal being shorn, you don't even have to wash it"

Alpaca wool's environmentally friendly nature has been a great source to boost sales for alpaca wool producers around the world with many stores even replacing designer garments with alpaca wool garments.

"This is kind of a niche that we've found and this is what the people come in for, the alpaca clothing also has been great," said Kevin Lennon, the owner of Shoenique.

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