Houseplants Don't Clean the Air in Your Home

Houseplants Don’t Clean the Air in Your Home, but You Should Have Some

If you’ve filled your home with plants to help clean the air, you’re gonna need to buy a lot more of them . . .

A new study looked at how well plants clean air indoors.  And the answer is . . . they basically don’t make a difference.

To match what a half-decent ventilation system does, you’d need at least one plant for EVERY square foot of space.  So, if your place is 1,000 square feet . . . you need 1,000 plants before it would do much.  That’s on the low end.  You might need even more plants than that.

Don’t start ripping them out of their pots quite yet though.  The study also found that having plants DOES help us in other ways.

Even if they don’t clean the air, they still make us feel more comfortable and less stressed.  Basically, we’re wired to feel better when a space feels “natural.”

Once summer hits, they can also make you COOLER.  They pointed to several studies where people thought the temperature in a room was cooler than it really was, just because there were plants around. 

https://studyfinds.com/indoor-plants-improve-mood