Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Indoor Pollution



Even inside our house is not safe for air pollution. Everything that comes in to our homes has the potential to be harmful to our health. This includes things from the building materials, furniture, paints, household cleaning products, personal care products and pesticides. There are some chemicals from this products causing the air pollution.

We've been renovating our house every now and then, my husband is the only one doing it cause contractors at this time are expensive. He is taking the old and ugly part and make it look nice. From those woods and paints he is using are having some fumes and my husband is allergy into smells so he start coughing and sneezing. We've learned that there are some household plants that help cleansing the air and absorbing chemicals such as formaldehyde and benzene the common chemicals we get from building materials and paints.

These are the top 5 plants that are good in removing pollutants in the air: English Ivy, Spider Plant, Golden Pathos, Peace Lily and Chinese Evergreen. We put alot of Spider Plant and Golden Pathos in our house and not just good for removing air pollution it's nice for decorations also.

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