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Making Indoor Air Quality A Priority With Choice Houseplants

By Cornelius Nunev


If you're looking to improve your house's indoor air quality, don't dump cash into electronics! Try one of these affordable houseplants.

Get a snake plant

The Snake plant, aka Mother-in-Law's Tongue, includes several smooth, snake-like tendrils that ascend upward. For a basic price of $15 up to $70 for a 50-stem plant, Snake plant scrubs the air for formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene, toluene, and benzene. It's also great for the bedroom, as it converts CO2 into oxygen during nighttime hours.

Devil's Ivy can help

With $15, you can get Devil's Ivy. It helps clear the air of benzene, toluene, xylene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde.

Houseplants for indoor air quality No. 3 - Florist's Chrysanthemum

For under $5, you can get florist's Chrysanthemum seeds. The attractive flower screens xylene, toluene, ammonia, benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene.

Get some Peace Lily

Get rid of benzene, ammonia, toluene, xylene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde with help from this pretty flower. It will cost between $35 and $50 to get.

Another option is the Red-Edged Dracaena

Stay away from Xylene, Toluene, benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene with this plant that will cost around $35.

Get the Areca Palm for air

Expect this large plant to get a place of its own for around $45. It will produce a lot of oxygen and kill toluene and xylene.



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