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Plants Versus Pollutants
Jesse Vernon Trail
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The bad news: airborne toxins are pretty much everywhere in your home. The good news: there’s a simple and affordable way to combat those contaminants.
You probably spend more time indoors than you think. In fact, the average American spends about 90 percent of his or her time indoors, where levels of pollutants can be up to five times higher than outdoors. Fortunately, these air-cleaning plants are superheroes that can help take down toxins. As a bonus, these plants (like all good superheroes) are pretty hard to kill.
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1. Aloe vera
No home should be without this famous healing plant. It’s great for treating minor cuts and sunburns and for ridding the air of a more insidious threat: formaldehyde. Grow aloe vera by a sunny window in well-drained soil that’s kept slightly on the dry side.