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Is the Air in Your Home Giving You a Headache?
With our busy lifestyles, rushing around and constantly on the go, it’s no surprise that many of us suffer from regular headaches. Lots of noise, stressful situations, too much time looking at our screens and unhealthy sleep patterns can all...
Indoor Air Pollution Just as Dangerous as Outdoor Pollution
For the first time ever, a group of experts from the UK will be looking at the harmful effects of indoor air pollution on children and outlining what governments need to do to reduce risks. There have been numerous reports...
The Truth About Ozone Generators
If you are concerned about the air quality in your home, you may have considered buying an ozone generator. They work by producing ozone that reacts with organic material such as odors or smoke and reverts back to oxygen. However...
Time to Change Your Perfume Perspective
Some people don’t feel fully dressed without putting on some sort of fragrance – perfume, body spray, cologne. It’s part of the reason why they make such popular gifts for Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries. Unfortunately, a couple of innocent spritzes...
Flooring From Popular Retailer Found to Have Unsafe Levels of Formaldehyde
Lumber Liquidators products sold in several states were found to have unsafe levels of formaldehyde. This could have an impact on thousands of people.
The Hidden Dangers of E-Cigarettes
The Hidden Dangers of E-Cigarettes While cigarette smoking has decreased significantly in the past few decades, down from about 42% of the American population in 1965 – approximately 18% of Americans are still smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes. That’s a total...
Activated carbon - you may have heard of it in the past, but you may not know what it is or what it can be used for unless perhaps you have studied medicine, chemistry, or survivalist techniques. While mankind has been using carbon, in one form or another, to purify contaminates and neutralize odors for thousands of years, the process of activating carbon has only gained traction in the past few hundred years. Carbon works to filter contaminants by trapping chemicals within the pore structure of a carbon particles, so the more porous and cavernous the carbon, the better the toxins will be adsorbed.
When we think of air pollution, we often envision dirty vehicle emissions poisoning the air we breathe or power plants and the bellowing of toxic fumes out of their towering smokestacks. Sure, outdoor air pollution causes serious health risks to our society, but if you believe outdoor air pollution is the biggest air quality risk to human health, we need to have a talk about the air inside your home, office, gym, and other indoor spaces.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and The HealthMate Plus
Estimates suggest that 2%-10% of people suffer from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity ( MCS). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reported that up to one-third of people in the workplace claim to be sensitive to chemicals in the air. Our indoor...