3 Must Have Plants In Your Home To Detoxify The Air In Your Home

We can’t just transfer the clean air from mountains or farms to urban areas or store it our homes, but we can put some plants that can detoxify the air inside our home for a cleaner air. Check out the article we found at Mind Body Green.

Researcher Kamal Meattle discovered that three common houseplants, used strategically throughout a home, could vastly improve the indoor air quality.

Here’s the breakdown:

Areca Palm is “The Living Room Plant.” This plant is a daytime oxygen factory and Meattle recommends having 4 shoulder height plants per person.

Mother-in-Law’s Tongue is “The Bedroom Plant.” This plant is an evening oxygen factory and Meattle recommends having 6-8 waist-high plants per person.

Money Plant is “The Specialist Plant.” This plant is the filter that removes formaldehyde and other volatile organic chemicals from the air.

These three household plants will certainly improve your indoor air quality, even if you don’t have quite so many. If you’re not satisfied with just three options, other new research has identified five “super ornamental” that demonstrated high effectiveness of contaminant removal.

These include the purple waffle plant (Hemigraphis alternataa), English ivy (Hedera helix), variegated wax plant (Hoya cornosa), Asparagus fern(Asparagus densiflorus) and the Purple heart plant (Tradescantia pallida).

Ready to grow your own fresh air? NASA studies recommend that you use one good-sized houseplant in a 6 to 8-inch diameter container for every 100 square feet of your home, though additional research is being done to identify exactly how many of each type of species is necessary for remediation (as in Meattle’s work). You should also be sure to keep the foliage clean and dust free (so the leaves can do their job), and keep the top of soil clean and free of debris, as in some cases, that’s where the bulk of the filtering is taking place.

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