Interior Plantscapes: The Beautiful 24/7 Indoor Air Pollution Solution
When we keep our windows closed against smog, we open ourselves up to a larger air quality problem: Unclean internal air that can cause health problems. Gasses from our furniture, carpeting, cleaning products, building materials, bedding and plastics emit vapors and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air we breathe. Your home may contain up to 10 times as many VOCs as the air outside!
Side effects of breathing these compounds include headaches, nausea, allergic skin reactions, and damage to your liver, kidneys and central nervous system. Common houseplants not only beautify our environment, they can actually filter out these VOCs so we breathe cleaner.
Certain plants perform better in low light environments, while others need bright light. Deeper Green selects specific premium quality plants to improve your indoor air quality and fit within your natural foods stores aesthetic environment.
HOUSEPLANTS KNOWN TO CLEAN INDOOR AIR
- Aloe vera – Filters formaldehyde and benzene from air
- Azalea – Filters formaldehyde from air
- Bamboo palm – Filters formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene from air
- Bird’s nest fern – Filters indoor air pollutants
- Boston fern – Filters indoor air pollutants
- Chinese evergreen – Filters indoor air pollutants
- Chrysanthemum – Filters benzene from air
- Dracaena – Filters benzene and formaldehyde from air
- Gerber daisy – Filters benzene and chemicals found in dry cleaning
- Peace lily – Filters formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene from air
- Philodendron – Filters indoor air pollutants
- Pothos – Filters formaldehyde from air
- Sanserveria – Filters formaldehyde from air
- Spider plant – Removes carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and benzene from air
- ficus – Filters formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene from air
- ZZ plant – Filters indoor air pollutants
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