Your home or your office is polluted by all kinds of products harmful to your health (problem of irritation of mucous, allergies, severe alterations of respiratory and gastro-intestinal -). You run risks, even inside your home. This finding begins to preoccupy policy. Senator Marie-Christine Blandin, in a recent report (January 2008) "Risks and hazards to human health from chemicals in common use, has compiled an inventory of such pollution in order to alert the French institutions against the danger that awaits us all.
Many harmful products are put into question. These are present not only in paintings but also in cleaning products or air fresheners.
They are quite numerous. Examples include:
Carbon monoxide generated by cigarettes and combustions
trichlorethylene present in glue, wax or solvents
xylene present in the wax, paint, markers, pens
toluene present in deodorants, perfumes interior adhesives, paints
benzene in cigarettes, paints, detergents, plastics
formaldehyde in paints, cigarettes, glues, furniture and materials agglomerated wood, wallpaper, carpets, cleaning products, textiles, packaging
ammonia in cigarettes and cleaning products
Here is a list almost complete. The least we can say is it's scary. When one reads, one quickly realizes that all the products we use inside our homes are harmful. Everyone uses detergents, cleaning products, paints, deodorants - Some have even boasted to great fanfare, including home fragrances, to name a few!
But once the alarm fired, what can you do?
If you must remove all products from the pre-cited list, you can not do anything to you. You can no longer be clean. You can not decorate your home.
Rest assured, the industrial organic trend, develop more products that are more harmful to your health. Choose paints with water, ecological and untreated wood, for example. The white vinegar or bicarbonate also agree with a lot of things.
Read labels before (if the entire composition is present) or check with the manufacturer. Normally, the products labeled organic must agree.
You can use other ways to clean your interiors. Ventilate your home every day.
In addition, put in your home, everywhere, agents anti-pollutant very effective: green plants! Their virtues are handed up to date for some time.
These plants act as filters: the pollutants are absorbed by the plant to its roots. It was at that time that micro-organisms convert the organic agents that nourish the plant.
Which plants to choose?
All are not acting on the same pollutants.
The chlorophytum pothos and act on benzene, toluene and carbon monoxide
The chrysanthemum is acting on benzene, formaldehyde and ammonia
The ferns, areca, the ficus and the phoenix roebelinii affect xylene and formaldehyde
The gerbera acts on benzene, formaldehyde and trichlorethylene. It is very useful in your kitchen.
The philodendron is acting on formaldehyde
The dragon is acting on carbon monoxide, toluene and trichlorethylene
The Rhapis acts on the ammonia and formaldehyde
The tongue of fire acts on the ammonia and xylene
The azalea and yucca affect ammonia
Ivy acts on benzene
Do not wait for politicians and industrialists come to your aid to take you in hand. The chemical lobbies are so powerful that things will unfortunately very long time to improve.
Simple solutions exist today to clean up your interiors. Use and abuse-in. In addition, with plants, you have a double benefit: you breathe better and you decorate your interiors.
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