Indoor plants bring life, color, and a touch of nature into our homes, turning ordinary spaces into vibrant green sanctuaries. Yet many plant lovers quickly discover a common challenge: pests. In the warm, enclosed environment of a home, insects like spider mites, mealybugs, aphids, and fungus gnats can spread rapidly, often going unnoticed until leaves […]
Air inside your home may be more polluted than outside due to everyday chemical products
When you walk through a pine forest, the crisp, fresh scent is one of the first things you notice. But bringing that pine scent or other aromas indoors with the help of chemical products — yes, air fresheners, wax melts, floor cleaners, deodorants and others — rapidly fills the air with nanoscale particles that are […]
Fix Your Toxic Home and Live Longer
The essential handbook for those who want to cultivate a healthier living environment. Introducing “Fix Your Toxic Home and Live Longer” by Marko Vovk. Boasting over 40 years of expertise from 18,000 home and building inspections, Marko Vovk, a distinguished inspector, civil engineer, environmentalist, consultant, and Expert Witness, emerges as a trusted authority. This all-encompassing […]
Toxic Home/Conscious Home: A Mindful Approach to Wellness at Home
In Toxic Home/Conscious Home, Rob Brown, MD examines the health dangers lurking in the modern home and offers simple, straightforward solutions as to what you can do about them. This book will help you understand how you interact with your environment physically, chemically, energetically and electrically. He answers questions such as: – How can you […]
Women Who Clean At Home Or Work Face Increased Lung Function Decline
Women who work as cleaners or regularly use cleaning sprays or other cleaning products at home appear to experience a greater decline in lung function over time than women who do not clean, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “Cleaning at Home […]
Is Your Home Harming You? New Research Highlights Deadly Effects Of Indoor Pollution
New research published in the journal Science of the Total Environment has highlighted the dangerous effects of indoor pollution on human health, and has called for policies to ensure closer monitoring of air quality. A collaborative effort of European, Australian and UK researchers, led by the University of Surrey, assessed the harmful effects of indoor […]