Breath in and Breath Out – Plants, Your Natural Air Filter

“So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

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It is a known biological fact that people breath about 20 times per minute, more than 10 million times per year, which equates to approximately 700 million breathes in a lifetime. Oxygen is a very necessary requirement of our lives, it enables us to live and if that’s not enough, while you are doing that little thing called breathing, your brainpower is being elevated with each of those breaths.  Breathing clean, pollution free air in those breaths can have a major impact on our overall health. When one considers that people spend approximately 92% of their time indoors, it becomes obvious that most of their breaths are taken indoors, it only makes sense that we would want those breaths to be as pollution free as possible. Our homes have pollutants around every corner, they are emitted from the materials on our furniture, the insulation in our homes, particle board used in the construction of our homes, pressed wood used in the making of furniture, carpet backings, plastics, detergents, dyes, dry cleaning chemicals, paints, varnishes, just to name a very few.

We should all become a lot smarter about what we put in our homes, read labels, buy natural cleaning products, request green building materials, the list goes on; but what can we do when those products are already in our homes? The answer my friend is found in plants. Plants filter indoor air pollution, they are very efficient at absorbing contaminates from the air that we breath. Surround yourself with plants. They are nature’s natural air filter. Put a couple of plants in a pot, choose shade lovers where you don’t get much light, part sun to sun plants for sunny windows. Water them, keep the dust off their leaves, play a little music for them and breath deep clean air, they are doing their job.

Part sun loving plants