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GreenYarn sel a number of products, such as clothing with bamboo charcoal particles are embedded in the fiber.

They claim:

Health: Bamboo charcoal absorbs chlorine in water and let minerals out, making your skin smooth. Also, the charcoal entirely warms up your body with infrared ray effect, easing stiff shoulders, lumbago, and poor circulation. Bamboo charcoal also absorbs bad odor and toxic substances, and emit negative ion.

Does wearing bamboo charcoal improve your skin or warm your body more than other clothes (or even other charcoals)?

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  • **Related Question:** http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/12373/is-bamboo-charcoal-safely-edible – Oddthinking Sep 26 '14 at 13:56
  • We already have a question about removing odors: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19001/do-charcoal-bags-help-removing-volatile-organic-compounds-vocs - so, can we focus on the health claim here? – Oddthinking Sep 26 '14 at 13:57
  • @Oddthinking, Yes, sure, we can focus on the health claim. – user275517 Sep 29 '14 at 01:12
  • In general, the claims seem suspect based on iffy English alone, but I was surprised to find that the "Infrared rays" claim has some merit. FIR is a thing, and according to this (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935255/) from the NIH, might have some medicinal effect even in the low doses that this fabric would generate, depending on the accuracy of their claim that activated carbon is a good emitter of NIH. – cpcodes Jun 18 '18 at 23:46

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