5 Natural Ways to Clean the Air at Home
You use beeswax candles, activated charcoal, plants, and essential oils to help your home become airy and the air fresh.
Increase ventilation
Ventilation reduces humidity, but that doesn’t mean opening all the windows to let polluted outdoor air into your living space. Instead, install small vents to clean and enjoy the fresh air inside your home. You can use exhaust fans to help bring polluted air outside.
Beeswax candles
Beeswax candles act as natural air purifiers, ionizing the air and neutralizing harmful compounds. In addition to improving the air quality in your home, candles burn slowly so you don’t have to replace them as often.
In fact, pure beeswax candles burn with virtually no smoke or scent, making them especially beneficial for asthmatics and removing common allergens like dust from the air. Avoid paraffin candles, which are petroleum-based.
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Beeswax candles help purify the air in your home.Photo: Food TV. |
Activated carbon
A great way to clean the air in your home is activated charcoal. It is odorless, highly absorbent, and effective at removing airborne toxins.
Houseplants
Growing plants indoors can purify the air, protecting you from toxins like ammonia, formaldehyde, and benzene.
Essential oils
Essential oils such as cinnamon, oregano, rosemary, thyme, lemon, grapefruit, clove, disinfect the environment, eliminate viruses, fungi, bacteria and even mold in the house.
Research from Weber State University shows that essential oils can kill 99.96% of airborne bacteria. Researchers recommend not smoking indoors, cleaning doormats, leaving shoes outside, cleaning air conditioners... to help clean the air in your home.
