Air-Cleaners: The Coolest Houseplants Ever

"Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul." - Linda Solegato

Did you know that if you keep certain houseplants, those plants will clean pollutants, chemicals and carcinogens out of the air inside your home?

How cool is that!?

all about air-cleaning houseplants

The Top Five Reasons Air-Cleaners Are The Coolest Houseplants
The Air-Cleaner Photo Gallery
Learn About Air-Cleaning Houseplants
Plants for Your Health, from GOOD Magazine
Which Are Your Favorite Air-Cleaning Houseplants?
House Plant Videos
House Plant Headlines
Tools for Tending Houseplants
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The Top Five Reasons Air-Cleaners Are The Coolest Houseplants

Houseplants don't need much more than water and light.
Houseplants take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Houseplants stabilize humidity levels.
Houseplants produce oxygen.
Houseplants can also remove air-borne pollutants if you pick the right ones!

The Air-Cleaner Photo Gallery

see what plants are air-scrubbing houseplants

Bird's Nest Fern, Lady Palm & Others by jayjayc

Lady Palm (middle)

English Ivy

Boston Fern

Spider Plant

Gerbera Daisy

Dendrobium Orchid

Learn About Air-Cleaning Houseplants

educational and informational links on houseplants

Plants - Indoor air pollution - air clean with plants: Indoor Plants - Clean Air
Care2 Greenliving :: Top Ten Houseplants for Cleaner Air: Don't forget about plants for cleaning indoor air pollution, adapted by "Your Naturally Healthy Home" by Alan Berman.
IAQ News: Living air cleaners: houseplants do more than make our homes pretty: Living air cleaners: houseplants do more than make our homes pretty. They can play an integral role in improving the very essence of our lives--the air we breathe
Houseplants can be just like a breath of fresh air /: Palm and fern families work to purify home and office of toxins and specific chemicals
Clean air plants: The following 20 plants were given the highest ratings for removal of chemical vapours in Dr. Wolverton's Book "Eco Friendly House Plants". The book gives detailed information on all fifty plants tested.
Air Filtration and Purification with House Plants: Houseplants can be very beneficial in our lives. They purify and renew our stale indoor air by filtering out toxins, pollutants and the carbon dioxide we exhale - replacing them with life sustaining oxygen!
HOUSEPLANTS HELP CLEAN INDOOR AIR: Our space program has led the way to a fascinating and important discovery about the role of houseplants indoors. NASA has been researching methods of cleansing the atmosphere in future space stations to keep them fit for human habitation over extended periods of time. They've found that many common houseplants and blooming potted plants help fight pollution indoors.
NASA Study - Plants Clean the Air!!!: Common indoor plants may provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. Those plants in your office or home are not only decorative, but NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings.
House plants that clean the air: Several varieties of common house plants can effectively remove harmful air pollution including formaldehyde, benzene, trichloroethylene, and carbon monoxide, from indoor environments.
English Ivy: A Fix for Allergies?: Research shows that English ivy may help clean the air of allergens such as mold and animal feces.

Plants for Your Health, from GOOD Magazine

The folks at GOOD Magazine wrote about houseplants for health and created the fantastic chart you see above. If you'd like to read more and get a full-size copy of the chart for yourself, go to the GOOD Magazine article.