Why Indoor Plants Are Good For Home
With pollution in cities rising to intolerable levels, houseplants are brought indoors not just for their visual beauty but for the sake of health too. Since plants release oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide, it eliminates harmful toxins and freshens up the air.
Therefore, whether you live in a small apartment or a huge villa, bring the greenery indoors right away to uplift the mood.
Here’s a list of benefits for keeping indoor plants that would give you enough reasons to get some for your home.
- Helps breathe better by increasing oxygen levels: Adding plants to interior spaces helps in reducing carbon dioxide and increases the oxygen levels. As we take in oxygen and convert it into carbon dioxide, plants just do the opposite. Hence, keeping indoor plants can improve the oxygen levels and help you breathe better quality air. Make sure to include those plants in homes that continue to give out oxygen at night.
- Acts as natural air purifiers: Some indoor plants can remove harmful toxins from the air. Since air pollution is high in metro cities, such indoor plants provide the much-needed relief by acting as natural air purifiers. It reduces the airborne dust levels and the levels of certain pollutants, such as benzene and nitrogen dioxide.
- Natural Humidifier: They help in regulating humidity. As part of the photosynthetic and respiratory processes, plants release moisture, which increases humidity in the air around them.
- Helps Remove Background Noise: Keeping indoor plants with wide leaves or shrubs can bring a slight difference in the noise levels too. Apart from the air purification and humidification impact, indoor plants do absorb the sound waves to a certain extent as well.
- Natural scents: Instead of using artificial air fresheners, bring fragrant plants indoor such citrus hystrix, to fill your home with fresh fragrance. A natural and chemical-free way to freshen up your home!
- Ready to Use Herbs (Natural Healer): Some plants act as herbs or medicine. For instance, aloe vera. The gel inside an aloe plant can help heal cuts and is also very effective at soothing burns, including sunburn. It can even be used on the skin as a moisturizer.
- Improves mental health: Plants helps in fighting stress, loneliness and depression to an extent, as caring for a living thing, especially a plant you have been lovingly caring for, is rewarding.
- Keeps room temperature in control: Plants help in keeping the air temperatures down as well.
- As a home decor accessory: Indoor plants can make any interior space look classy. Since there are many plants available in various colours and sizes, one can enhance the look and feel of the space aesthetically with indoor plants.
