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 […]
Spray Foam Insulation: Energy Hero or Cancer Culprit?
In the quest for energy-efficient homes, spray foam insulation has surged in popularity, promising airtight seals and lower utility bills. But lurking beneath those fluffy white layers in your attic rafters could be a cocktail of chemicals raising serious health alarms. Is this modern marvel silently endangering your family’s well-being? Recent studies and EPA warnings […]
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 […]
Connection between household chemicals and gut microbiome
A team of researchers for the first time has found a correlation between the levels of bacteria and fungi in the gastrointestinal tract of children and the amount of common chemicals found in their home environment. The work, published this month in Environmental Science and Technology Letters, could lead to better understanding of how these semi-volatile […]
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 […]
House Plants Purify Air Nasa Study
In the late 1980s, a study by NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) was conducted to find ways to purify the air for extended stays in orbiting space stations. The study resulted in excellent news for homeowners and office workers everywhere, because it concluded that common houseplants not only make indoor spaces […]