House Plants remove toxins from the air in your home...

Low humidity levels indoors can affect your health and beauty, giving you dry skin, flaky lips, itchy throat and also esaperating allergies. More importantly, infectious bacteria and viruses can survive for longer periods of time in dry air.  So by keeping indoor plants you raise humidity levels and lower the spread of viruses. 

Peace Lily

NASA’s analysis of indoor houseplants revealed that the Peace Lily was the most efficient at removing airborne Volatile Organic Compounds, including formaldehyde, trichloroethylene and benzene. All that’s needed to keep and maintain this beautiful indoor air toxin killer is water and a modest amount of sunlight. Preserve these conditions and you’ve got yourself an all-natural air purifier that will remain hard at work 24/7.

Jade Plant

Commonly know as money tree this plant is particularly effective in absorbing toluene that's emitted from gasoline, paints, kerosene and lacquers. The jade plant and some other arid climate plant species like Mother-in-Law’s Tongue follow a rare Crassulacean Acid Metabolism. It provides them the ability to absorb carbon dioxide at night. It’s one of the plants that you can grow indoors to raise the quality of the air at night. 

Aloe Vera

A healing aloe plant is a lovely addition to your kitchen windowsill, being on hand to soothe any kitchen burns and sunburn, this succulent will be purifying the air of formaldehyde and benzene, found in varnishes, floor finishes, and detergents. It's also an excellent plant to use in facials as the sap is considered an anti winkle remedy. It loves a sunny spot on a window sill.

Cactus

These plants are good at eliminating bacteria and tackling pollution, cacti is also great at reducing radiation. Placing them by computer modems and other electrical products can be beneficial to your families health. Cacti also absorbs carbon dioxide at night and release oxygen. making this a good plant for the bedroom too.

Snake Plant

Sanseveria (Snake Plant) also known as Mother-in-Law’s Tongue, is an excellent plant for filtering out formaldehyde, which is common in cleaning products, hygiene, and personal care products. While some plants remove one or two toxins, snake plants are effective at removing four major toxins from the air making them one of the best air purifiers. 

Spider Plant

Chlorophytum (Spider Plant) is a well-known champion cleanser of air. The NASA tests showed it to remove around 90% of the potentially cancer-causing chemical formaldehyde from the air. Since formaldehyde is found in common household products like adhesives, grout and fillers, it’s a good idea to keep one of these plants in your kitchen and bathrooms. It will also absorb carbon monoxide and xylene, a solvent used in the printing and rubber industries. If you have pets, this is one of the few houseplants that is non-toxic to animals. 

Dracaena

Dracaena (Dragon Tree) is useful for removing xylene, trichloroethylene, and formaldehyde, which spreads in indoor air through lacquers like your hairspray, furniture polish or varnish. Compounds found in paints, cleaning agents, clothing and building materials add unwanted toxins to our homes, and Dracaenas are one of the finest indoor plants at removing them.  

Ivy

English ivy is another great indoor plant that removes toxins. This plant has been shown to reduce 60% of airborne mold and 58% of airborne faeces after being placed in a room for only 6 hours! So these are excellent plants for bathrooms.

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