Clean Your Home’s Air With Plants
A simple, beautiful, and cost effective way to keep your house healthy and clean! Research has shown that these 10 plants are the most effective all-around in counteracting off gassed chemicals and contributing to balanced internal humidity. Areca palm. The [...]
A simple, beautiful, and cost effective way to keep your house healthy and clean!
Research has shown that these 10 plants are the most effective all-around in counteracting off gassed chemicals and contributing to balanced internal humidity.
Areca palm. The top air purifying plant as ranked by NASA’s study is the Areca. Dubbed “the most efficient air humidifier by MetaEfficient, the Areca can be counted on to keep your home or office moist during dry times and continuously remove chemical toxins from the air.
Reed palm. Reed plant purifies the indoor air against trichloroethane, benzene and toluene.
Dwarf date palm. Not rated as high as some of the other plants in its catagory, but it still helps to lower the concentration of chemical toxins floating around in the air.
Boston fern. Is one of the better plants for ability to expel mold and toxins from indoor air.
English ivy. condisered the fix for allergies plant. Excellent for mold and airborne feces. Those with asthma, allergies, or the desire to breath cleaner, fresher air could benefit with a English Ivy.
Peace Lily. This is a popular house plant. It is a great plant that is a general house cleaner. Cleaning a wide range of chemicals, molds, and other pollutions from the air.
Rubber plant. Great at removing formaldehyde from indoor air, requiring less light than many other plants and outperforming all other ficuses. Rubber plant leaves can be toxic, so it’s best to keep them away from small children and pets.
Weeping fig. In any indoor environment, the Weeping Fig will effectively filter most indoor air toxins.
It is suggested that one plant should be placed approximately
10 square yards of floor space, assuming average ceiling heights
of 8 to 9 feet. This means that you need two or three plants to
contribute to good air quality in the average domestic living
room of about 20 to 25 square yards.
I found an interesting little tid bit on indoor plants that might benefit your workspace.
A study, published in the “Journal of Environmental Horticulture,” reports that productivity increased 12 percent when people performed tasks on a computer with plants, compared people who performed the same task in a room without plants.
Productivity was measured by the response time. Professor Virginia Lohr, Ph.D of WSU said, “there was no difference in the number of errors. The big difference was the reaction time, how quickly they pressed the correct key when the plants were present.”
“Plants are not just fluff,” says Dr. Lohr. “We have felt, and many people who work with plants intuitively believe, that having plants around is vital to our well-being.”
Happy planting!
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