7 plants that can clean the air in your home

Did you know that the air in the apartment sometimes is more dirty than at the street, where it’s filled with car exhaust emission gasses?!

Furniture made of plastic and wood chipboard, paint, linoleum, household appliances, various detergents and cleaning chemicals get «thrown» into the air of your home is the form of formaldehyde, benzene, nitrogen, phenol, ammonia, and it is not the end of the list!

As a result, your apartment becomes a polygon for toxic compounds.

How to reduce the risk? Here the houseplants can help, and more plants you have at home — the better the air is inside!

7 plants

7 plants

The TOP-7 plants which best purify the air in the apartment:

  1. If there’s a smoker, the best choice will be Scheffler which perfectly neutralizes tar and nicotine.
  2. Wide golden leaves of Epipremnum can absorb large amounts of benzene.
  3. Formaldehyde contained in adhesives, lacquers and furniture made of wood chipboard (even in small amounts) neutralizes Dracaena. However, it should be kept away from children and animals, as it is poisonous.
  4. The exhaust gases are best «catched» by Chlorophytum. For those who live on the first two floors, Chlorophytum is a real godsend.
  5. Plastic releases harmful substances, and Chamaedorea elegans filters them. Plus, it is an active humidifier.
  6. Ivy contains iodine, organic acids, glycosides, which gives this climbing plant a strong antibacterial and antifungal properties.
  7. The champion among air purifiers is a Benjamin Ficus. Ficus attracts dust like a magnet and absorbs even such toxic compounds as ammonia, formaldehyde and benzene.