It’s really important to purify the air in our homes and these plants can help you do it. Not only they’ll make your home smell nice, but also clean air toxins and improve your health.
Here are the 8 plants you must have in your home:
Sansevieria
Sansevieria is not difficult to maintain and it’s an amazing air purifier. It is tolerated on sun and shade, and you can place it close to a radiator because it cannot tolerate a lot of moisture. This plant will get rid of benzene and formaldehyde particles in the air.
Devil’s Ivy
Devil’s ivy is a great plant. Not only will purify the air, but also looks gorgeous. It doesn’t need much light to grow and it’s not high maintenance. Its leaves are poisonous so you need to keep it away from children and pets. Devil’s ivy filteres air from benzene and formaldehyde, which are present in cigarette smoke. It is believed that the devil’s ivy brings happiness.
Spathiphyllum
Spathiphyllum is such an elegant plant with white flowers and it’s famous for feeding of toxic radiation. His ideal place is along a TV screen or a computer monitor. Spathiphyllum also absorbs benzene, formaldehyde, toluene and ammoniac. Keep the plant away from children and pets since eating spathiphyllum causes stomach pains.
Bamboo Palm
This tropical plant is one of the best air purifiers. It perfectly filtrates formaldehyde, trichlorethylene, xylene, and toluene. Although it needs lots of sun, you shouldn’t expose this plant directly to the sun and the best part is that is animal friendly.
Gerbera
Gerbera is a gorgeous flower that will make your room more beautiful. Gerbera absorbs air toxins and even cigarette smoke. There are about 100 different species of Gerbera, mostly yellow, pink, red, orange and white. This plant doesn’t need much care, likes sunny places, it can handle the heat, but needs more water.
Ivy
Ivy grows almost anywhere and it can be an amazing home plant. People believe that ivy is an amazing healing herb and a great air purifier.
Dracaena
Dracaena is a tropical plant that filtrates air toxins, especially formaldehyde. It’s a wonderful home decoration and it can grow up to 9 feet. Don’t keep the plant directly exposed to sunlight and cold.
Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera will help you remove air toxins, especially TV and computer radiation. You can also use Aloe Vera for treating burns and for skin care.