Summer time calls for you filling your home with cooling green plants that'll help you lower the ambient air temperature. Not only do green plants enliven your home decor, but certain plants also act as natural coolants and air purifiers. It might seem super tempting to blast the air conditioner for as long as you can, but adding these plants to your home is a much cheaper and, not to forget, environmentally friendly way to keep the temperature down in your house. If you're looking for a natural, inexpensive way to keep your home cool in the summer months, consider getting these plants.
1. Aloe Vera
Other than the fact that aloe vera can work like magic on your skin thanks to it's incredible healing properties, the aloe vera plant is also effective in cooling the air temperature around. A study also found that aloe vera plants are useful in removing formaldehyde, a major indoor air pollutant, from its immediate surroundings.
2. Spider Plant
This plant helps to not only cool the air, but like aloe vera, it is good for cleaning formaldehyde out of the air too. Chlorophytum or Spider plant is also known for its ability to absorb carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, and tasteless gas that can prove toxic to humans when encountered in concentrations above 35 ppm.
3. Areca Palm
The Areca palm tree is one of the most popular living room plants thanks to its pleasantly decorative nature. But this plant means serious business - a NASA research document found that Areca palm is amongst the top plants that can "purify and rejuvenate air within our houses and workplaces, safeguarding us all from any side effects connected with prevalent toxins such as formaldehyde, ammonia and also benzene."
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