Indoor plants are a great way to decorate the interior of your house. Who doesn’t want to remain close to nature? Indoor Plants give us the aura and more natural feel in our artificial houses filled with furniture and appliances.

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If you’re a big fan of indoor plants there is good news for you. Apart from the beauty and aesthetic sense, you can now choose your indoor plants based on their benefits to your health!

While we can talk for hours about the indoor health and indoor air pollutants, there are a few things that must not be ignored, such as Sick house syndrome. We all are aware of how the lack of ventilation in your home or apartment can pose the serious risk to your health. There are some indoor plants that can greatly improve the air quality of your home or office where you spend a lot of your time.

Air pollution at your home can be build due to many reasons, including the home appliances you use, the chemical products you may use, and the fuel that is used in the kitchen, which produces carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide while consuming the oxygen that you breathe. Using these indoor houseplants can have several benefits for you such as purification of the air, releasing water content in the air, help you breathe better by producing oxygen, increasing your mental efficiency by improving your focus, and improving the overall health and wellbeing of your body.

Here are some of the easily available indoor plants along with their health benefits, that you can put in your home and office :

• Sansevieria trifasciata

This is a common species you can easily find. The common name for this plant is Snake plant. Since it doesn’t keep a lot of sunlight it’s a good keeper for your indoors. You also don’t need to water it a lot. It’s a very effective air cleaner as it absorbs the unwanted carbon dioxide and gives you fresh oxygen.

• Philodendron

This plant is a beautiful piece of decoration. Since they don’t need a lot of time and caretaking, you can easily keep it in your home for increasing the beauty of the place and removing air pollutants at the same time. Xylene is a harmful derivative classified as an organic compound, which is bad for your health and normally found in indoor air. This plant can help remove the xylene from the air and improve its quality.

• Dracaena Marginata

This plant is worth keeping for more reasons than one. The plant has uniquely long leaves with red edges along the entire leaf. It’s an eye candy to look at, and very effective in removing many harmful chemicals and toxic compounds from the air, such as formaldehyde, xylene, and trichloroethylene. A more common name for this plant is Red-Edged Dracaena due to its leaf edges.

• Golden Pothos

This pretty little thing is cute enough to be placed anywhere at your home. Like some of the other plants mentioned, it is also effective in removing toxins and pollutants from the air.

• English Ivy

Like philodendron, this plant can also absorb xylene and other toxic compounds. This little herb-like plant has a feel of its own, as it spreads randomly giving a wild, but a very beautiful look.

Conclusion

Researchers say that keeping and nurturing plants can be extremely effective for mental health as well, as you can get attached to them in a healthy way like you would do to a person or your pet dog. This emotional bonding can also help people get out of depression and other problems.
Along with all the other benefits, by making use of these natural air purifiers, you can make your home a much better place.