Well-being house: breathe healthy air at home

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Well-being house: breathe healthy air at home

We are more and more aware of the quality of our nearest gold environment, the one in which we live, is as risky as the outside if we do not take care.

Indoor air pollutants

Invisible, they are nonetheless dangerous and particularly for fragile populations, babies, pregnant women, children and adolescents, people with chronic diseases and the elderly: they are the 40,000 toxic substances, carcinogenic, allergenic, etc.., to the proven presence in indoor air.Inhale them has a more or less immediate impact on health: respiratory problems, headache, reprotoxic, neurotoxic, carcinogenic or endocrine disturbances and we still do the long -term effects.The rise in temperatures and humidity would also contribute to the increase in the concentration of pollutants in indoor air.When we know that we fell before the period of the health crisis 85 % of our time inside, and that this percentage has only increased in recent years, the time has probably come to look at thesubject more seriously.Air your home time to read this article, you will not regret it.

^{Indoor air pollutants © Dyson}

Daily gestures to protect yourself from the risks linked to indoor air pollution

On a daily basis the list of pollutants that we meet in each room in the house is long.Knowing behaviors, objects and products at risk allows you to better protect yourself by airing accordingly, by choosing less dangerous alternatives and by adopting new daily gestures.

According to a study published by Elabe, half of French people are surprised to learn that one is more exposed to indoor air pollution than the air.Certainly the house protects us from external pollution but its air is 5 to 7 times more polluted than outside air if we do not act.Our everyday activities impact this quality: from cleaning to cooking through the external pollution of vehicles and industry entering it, but it is possible to protect yourself from this scourge.

Paintings, floor coverings, furniture, housekeeping products, pollens, dust, mites, tobacco smoke, candles and incense, combustion of food in cooking, humidity that promotes the development of molds, bacteria, solvents and cosmeticsbathroom, animal hair ... pollutants are everywhere and the list is terribly long.However, there are some reflexes to develop to avoid overexposure to harmful particles and gas.If you have still not opened your window you are not long in doing it!

^{The FAE Waterproof FAE fireplace households preserve indoor air quality and limit environmental impact and comply with the Ecodesign 2022 standard.© Seguin}

The first protection gesture, you can never say it enough, consists in ventilating at home by opening the windows large.The right frequency: 15 minutes, morning and evening, every day, whatever the season.

Your consumption choices are also essential.For example, when buying a new carpet, prefer a model proving a reduced emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are these chemical compounds emitted by the paint used on furniture and arrangements, but thatalso finds in household products.Also favor the use of non -toxic glues or adhesives with a low VOC content.You can then put the carpet in a room not inhabited during the time of the operation and open windows as much as possible.

For furniture fabrics, as the slow living advocates it, choose natural materials (cotton, wool, linen) and run away from antibacterial or flame delaying treatments: as many chemicals less in you.

Paintings with a low, even depolluting, painting, also made a good place among the reference brands.Do not hesitate to select them.To paint the baby's room, plan the end of the site two months before its arrival and ventilate fifteen minutes every day once the room is renovated.

^{© Colibri paintings}

On the furniture side, furnishing products being made up of various types of materials treated, decorated and protected by varnishes and paintings emitting multiple volatile or semi-valatile substances, it is recommended to choose small formaldehyde products orBuy used furniture.We see indeed reducing emissions over time.Low formaldehyde ecological furniture is also more and more easily on the market.The Camif edition collections communicating directly on this sensitive subject this season.For new products, therefore prefer furniture either made of solid wood or in pressed wood (also called MDF) fully sealed, receiving solvent -free varnishes and water paints to minimize your exposure to the 600 substances listed as can be issued byfurnishings.

^{Basile collection bed - © Camif edition}

Maison bien-être : respirer un air sain chez soi

On the kitchen side, food cooking produces a mixture of terrible toxic compounds: aldehydes, heterocyclic amines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fatty aerosols and particles, which are added to the other pollutants of the house.The nebulization of fats, steam and the effects of combustion when cooking food is a real problem.This is why airing is essential, especially when you have no hood.At a minimum you will take care to ventilate the house suitably, the smell of meals outside the moment of their prEPAration, although actable sometimes, which can serve as an index to encourage you to open the windows at the right time.

^{Purifying hot + cool formaldehyde ™ (white/gold): practical, it can settle in the kitchen also © Dyson}

On the bathroom side, control temperature and humidity throughout the house but especially in this room makes sense.Favoring the use of natural detergents is also recommended.Exit the usual cleaning products that offer us a cocktail of chemicals exploding with effects always on examination in air quality monitoring laboratories.Multi-purpose cleaner, window cleaner and mirrors, liquid detergent: find at the end of the article these few recipes easy to make from non-polluting products offered with the essentials essentials certified at low prices.

A label for non -toxic products

Choosing products certified by dedicated institutes such as the controlled indoor air label is another track to minimize your exhibition.This independent label launched in 2019 informs consumers about the risks of toxicity by inhalation of products in indoor air and guarantees better information.Many French and international brands of housekeeping products call on this label and major distributor brands (MDD) seem to want to follow this movement.The label is based on more than 119 international standards and uses independent and approved laboratories for analyzes carried out on the basis of ISO (International Standardization Agency for 165 countries).
Choisir autant que possible des produits labellisés "clean" est bien une solution mais ce n’est pas la seule.

Equipment to clean up indoor air

Alternative also an interesting alternative, Blue, a French invention starting from the principle of electrolysis is a small machine transforming water with salt in detergent.This magic mini-chaudron in which you pour tap water and dose of blue concentrate 100 % natural origin (well-dosed salt and vinegar) before pressing the button, will transform the mixture into hypochlore acid, a disinfectantpowerful, and in caustic soda, degreasing, thus making it possible to create a ready -to -use household mixture.The product obtained is used on all surfaces supporting water and makes it possible to replace more than three -quarters of daily maintenance products.

^{New Blue Household products are "homemade" but remain effective and neither corrosive nor aggressive for the skin.© Blue}

Acting almost as a magic wand, vapor cleaners can be used everywhere and require no other product than water: no chemical storage, no repeated use either.Disclosure and sanitation assured of the air to the key.Quality models are more and more accessible.Prefer recognized brands of household appliances and maintenance with European standards certified for more security and longevity.

Air pollutants in the kitchen can be considerably reduced thanks to the use of a suction hood.Some even have an integrated purifier which makes it possible to treat the air of the house at different times of the day.This is the case of Ikona Maxxi Pure, of Elica which allows an air treatment at different times of the day.

Another device that can improve the atmosphere of the house, the air humidifier turns out to be precious especially in dried up atmospheres of winter heated dwellings when the outside air is already very.Their use improves respiratory comfort of the most fragile in particular.Ensure using a simple hygrometer to maintain a reasonably humid air, without excess.Please note: Maintenance of the machine and its cleaning must be frequent so as not to transform it into spore sprayer!

You will have grasped it: Passing the vacuum cleaner often, and the mop then, always in this direction, making the dust conscientiously and regularly, are the first gestures after the ventilation of the house to protect themselves from this pollution.But sensitive people, with severe allergies, also need to be filtered to be filtered so as not to be broadcast again.Dedicated vacuum cleaners exist like the Dyson V15 detect wireless vacuum cleaner with a cleaning head that reveals invisible dust on the ground to see where the dust is and thus to vacuum.Another sensor detects, eliminates, size and counts (!) Microscopic dust to provide scientific proof of deep cleaning.From € 699, the Rolls of the household we tell you.

^{Visual: Airocide}

To go further in the protection of your home, equip yourself with a specific device, such as an air purifier, is a possibility envisaged by more and more French.It is understandable when you live in an agglomeration with an external air already very polluted, that the pace of life does not allow you to ventilate during recommended hours and that activities in work, leisure housing are combinedand family life, ... the breathing difficulties of the most fragile home are the last bulwark and the arrival of a child completes to convince the most skeptical.This choice has a high cost and if there are all types and at all prices, among the referents remains the Dyson model.The most recent, purifying it cool formaldehyde, which eliminates 99.95 % of ultrafine particles, is a major investment (between 649 and € 699).An arbitration to be made according to the efforts you are ready to make to change your lifestyle.