Here are 11 tips on healthy living in your home, as quoted from iVillage, Sunday (15/04/2012), among others :
1. Cooking with chemical-free cookware
Pots and pans teflon release hazardous fumes and particles into the air, including toxic gases, carcinogens, and global pollutants. Use cookware made from chemical free and choosing one made of stainless steel.
2. Open Window Your Home
Though your day to spend time at home, it is possible to be free from pollution. Pollution can occur in the living room stuffy, smelly glue on the carpet, the smell of paint sprayed walls and furniture and stained with various chemicals.
Open the windows of your home as often as possible to keep the clean air flowing into your home.
3. Choosing carefully in Sheet
Some kind of chemicals are found in fabric sheets, blankets, pillowcases and bolster such as polyester, nylon, and everything labeled wrinkle resistant. Buy a sheet and a blanket made of safer materials such as organic cotton.
4. Be careful with Bulb Lights
If the light bulb is white or known as Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) broken, would cause effects that are bad for your health because it contains mercury vapor light bulb, a highly toxic substance.
Be careful in dispose of a dead light bulb. You can also purchase the lamp with a low wattage bulb that save electricity.
5. Do not Jump into the garage After Entering Cars Traveling
After a long trip, do not immediately put your car into the garage for your car's engine needs to cool down naturally. If not, the engine heat will make the air in the garage gets hot and polluted.
Park your car in the yard for an hour or two before moving to the garage in order to cool the engine.
6. Avoid Using Anti Unruly Clothing
Apparel with the label 'no iron' or 'anti-wrinkle' contains perfluorochemicals (PFC), a compound related to reproductive and developmental toxicity, as well as liver and bladder cancers.
Choose from cotton clothes are comfortable and take a little time to iron your clothes so as not to wrinkle.
7. Careful Choosing House Cleaning
Today many homes are actually cleaning products contain chemicals that are bad for your health and your family. Choose cleaning products that have labels or boxes made of natural materials and non-toxic.
8. Reduce Using Dry Cleaning Services
Shirts are cleaned using perchlorethylene by dry cleaning laundry services. Perchlorethylene is an organic compound and a volatile solvent to remove stains from your clothes. Unfortunately, the cleaning process will leave toxic chemicals in your clothes.
9. Wash Your Face After Getting
If you wear make-up every day before leaving the house, make sure you wash your face immediately upon arrival at home instead of waiting until bedtime.
Make up a thick will cover your facial pores and cause acne. Plus dust and pollutants stuck on your skin when you are in luar.
10. Reduce lighting in the Bedroom The pineal gland in your body creates melatonin when the atmosphere around your dark so you can sleep soundly.
But the light was so bright in your bedroom can make melatonin production disrupted and you can wake up in the middle of your night's sleep. As a result, the production of melatonin immediately dropped down and make it difficult to continue your sleep.
Consider buying a light sleeper or alarm clock is illuminated with red light, melatonin production is less intrusive than a light blue or putih.
11. Clean your mattress
mattress also need to be cleaned regularly and needs to dry in the sun to be free from musty odor and not a nest mites.
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