How To: Detox Your Home

As you've probably heard, your home's indoor air quality could be two to five times worse than the outside air.

So how can you detox your home? Start with organic sheets, all-natural cleaners, and non-toxic furniture. Then what?

Well, PlanetGreen has a lot of ideas for how to detox every room of your house.

Here are some of our favorite tips:

Fight mold growth in the bathroom with tea tree oil.

Keep PVC out of the nursery.

Keep particle board out of the bedroom.

Regularly clean and/or replace air-conditioner and furnace filters.

Check out the whole article.

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Comments (2)

Great tips! Especially good to remind people to change their filters. Keeps the furnace running efficiently!

posted by AimeeRoo on March 6th 2008 at 8:05am
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I love that one of the tips is removing shoes to prevent spreading cr*p on your shoes around the house. I make people do this and sort of felt bad about it but this reinforces what i'm doing! Thanks!

posted by foodiegirl on March 6th 2008 at 1:07pm
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