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Category: cleaning products
Laundry Done Naturally With Soapnuts
Posted on: Oct 9, 2011
Filed Under cleaning products, Healthy Home | 10 Comments
I was just discussing the implications of Tide with a reader recently. She asked me “Is it really that bad?”. I’ll be the first to admit that my laundry detergent was one of those things you had to pry out of my hands (and then I cried a little at the thought of dingy clothing). [...]
I’m a Mom For Cooties
Posted on: Jun 16, 2011
Filed Under Chemicals, cleaning products, Healthy Schools | 6 Comments
I was reading one of my favorite blogs this morning Phd in Parenting and she posted about a campaign floating around called Moms Against Cooties. It’s a campaign launched by the Water Quality and Health Council (which they don’t make very obvious). According to their website they are a group sponsored by the “Chlorine Chemistry Division of the American Chemistry Council, an industry trade association”. Which means to me that it’s funded by groups with a monetary interest in the success of people’s fears turning to chlorine products like Clorox to obsessively bleach the heck out of everything we come in contact with.
Method Antibac Line Cleans Up SafeMama’s House (Giveaway!)
Posted on: Nov 10, 2010
Filed Under cleaning products, Giveaways Coupons | 83 Comments
There is one other thing besides lip gloss that I collect, and that’s less toxic cleaning products. Sure I could DIY my little heart out but here is a confession. I don’t do it. It never happens. So I turn to products that do the job without subjecting myself and my kids to harsh chemicals, [...]
DIY Toy Cleaning
Posted on: Jul 7, 2010
Filed Under cleaning products, Eco-Mama, Toy Safety | 10 Comments
We get questions about how to safely clean toys at least once a week. I really believe that people are getting overly paranoid about germs now that the Swine Flu did a number on our mentality about illnesses. Thing is, I understand. I felt it too… the uncertainty, the debating over getting flu vaccines, the [...]
SafeMama Laundry Detergent Cheat Sheet
Posted on: Jun 8, 2010
Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, cleaning products, Cloth Diapering | 41 Comments
For years and years, I was a Tide girl. I loved my Tide in all its stain fighting glory (especially with a husband who is a habitual leaver of lip balm in his pocket and my rule is, I do the laundry, I don’t check pockets) and optical brightening power. Then I read about phthalates [...]
Cheat Sheet: Safer Cleaning Supplies
Posted on: May 25, 2010
Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, cleaning products, Eco-Mama, Healthy Home | 8 Comments
One of the first things that went in my house when we started to green (during the whole BPA boom of ’07) was conventional cleaning products. Since then, we’ve tried many green cleaning products. And of course, what do we SafeMama girls do best? That’s right, my friends, cheat sheets. We’d be remiss if we [...]
SafeMama Cheat Sheet: Safer Hand Sanitizers
Posted on: Apr 28, 2010
Filed Under cleaning products, Product Safety, Safe Mama Tips | 11 Comments
For the longest time, we were always getting the question, what about sanitizing? “I want to carry a hand sanitizer!“ “What about sanitizing my toys/baby bottles/pacifiers?“ It seems like these days, it’s so much more prevalent to see some parent slathering Purell or the like on their kid at every turn. They keep giant warehouse [...]
YoreGanics Review: Soap Nuts (& Giveaway)
Posted on: Apr 21, 2010
Filed Under cleaning products, Eco-Mama, Giveaways Coupons | 80 Comments
I have a confession. I’ve sinned. I’ve tripped over the green wagon. I haven’t fallen off of it entirely, but I’ve had to use not so eco friendly products in recent months, for various reasons. I don’t like it one bit, but I was having some major skin problems, as was my daughter and I [...]
EcoStore USA Products a SafeMama Favorite (Giveaway!)
Posted on: Apr 14, 2010
Filed Under cleaning products, Eco-Mama, Giveaways Coupons | 130 Comments
We reviewed EcoStore’s products ages ago. Well, Statia did and I never got around to trying any of them myself. I meant to though. So when EcoStore reached out to me to do another review along with a great giveaway I was so willing and happy to do it. For review, EcoStore USA sent me [...]
Clearing the Air: Germ Guardian Review and Safer Air Cleaning Remedies
Posted on: Feb 12, 2010
Filed Under allergies, cleaning products, Healthy Home | 5 Comments
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Home / Technology / NASA Study House Plants Clean Air
NASA Study House Plants Clean 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.
NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) have announced the findings of a 2-year study that suggest a sophisticated pollution-absorbing device: the common indoor plant may provide a natural way of helping combat “SICK BUILDING SYNDROME”.
Research into the use of biological processes as a means of solving environmental problems, both on Earth and in space habitats, has been carried out for many years by Dr. Bill Wolverton, formerly a senior research scientist at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss.
Based on preliminary evaluations of the use of common indoor plants for indoor air purification and revitalization, ALCA joined NASA to fund a study using about a dozen popular varieties of ornamental plants to determine their effectiveness in removing several key pollutants associated with indoor air pollution. NASA research on indoor plants has found that living plants are so efficient at absorbing contaminants in the air that some will be launched into space as part of the biological life support system aboard future orbiting space stations.
While more research is needed, Wolverton says the study has shown that common indoor landscaping plants can remove certain pollutants from the indoor environment. “We feel that future results will provide an even stronger argument that common indoor landscaping plants can be a very effective part of a system used to provide pollution free homes and work places, ” he concludes.
Each plant type was placed in sealed, Plexiglas chambers in which chemicals were injected. Philodendron, spider plant and the golden pothos were labeled the most effective in removing formaldehyde molecules. Flowering plants such as gerbera daisy and chrysanthemums were rated superior in removing benzene from the chamber atmosphere. Other good performers are Dracaena Massangeana, Spathiphyllum, and Golden Pothos. “Plants take substances out of the air through the tiny openings in their leaves,” Wolverton said. “But research in our laboratories has determined that plant leaves, roots and soil bacteria are all important in removing trace levels of toxic vapors”.
“Combining nature with technology can increase the effectiveness of plants in removing air pollutants,” he said. “A living air cleaner is created by combining activated carbon and a fan with a potted plant. The roots of the plant grow right in the carbon and slowly degrade the chemicals absorbed there,” Wolverton explains.
NASA Study shows common plants help reduce indoor air pollution….
NASA research has consistently shown that living, green and flowering plants can remove several toxic chemicals from the air in building interiors. You can use plants in your home or office to improve the quality of the air to make it a more pleasant place to live and work – where people feel better, perform better, any enjoy life more.
TOP 10 plants most effective in removing:
Formaldehyde, Benzene, and Carbon Monoxide from the air
- Bamboo Palm – Chamaedorea Seifritzii
- Chinese Evergreen - Aglaonema Modestum
- English Ivy Hedera Helix
- Gerbera Daisy Gerbera Jamesonii
- Janet Craig - Dracaena “Janet Craig”
- Marginata - Dracaena Marginata
- Mass cane/Corn Plant - Dracaena Massangeana
- Mother-in-Law’s Tongue Sansevieria Laurentii
- Pot Mum – Chrysantheium morifolium
- Peace Lily - Spathiphyllum
- Warneckii - Dracaena “Warneckii”
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