Indoor Plants Purify The Air

With excessive urbanization, the air quality has significantly deteriorated in the past couple of decades. While outdoor air pollution poses a threat to your health, indoor air pollution can also lead to sick building syndrome. Studies show that the air inside your home can be much more polluted than the air in the middle of a bustling city. This is because pollutants get in and it is hard for them to get out. Moreover, there are many things in our homes that create air pollution. Cleaning products, paints, mold, mildew, and paper products, all bring chemical pollutants like benzene and formaldehyde that can cause headache, dizziness, loss of concentration and throat infection. This is where indoor house plants come in with their exceptional air purifying benefit.  It is a well-known fact that leafy plants provide oxygen but the microorganisms found in the soil of the plant can also remove harmful, toxic chemicals from the air making the air safer and healthier for you to breathe. Breathing fresh, clean air helps keep the airways clear which improves chest health.

Gardening Improves Cardiovascular Health

Since the advent of technology, life has become sedentary. Lack of exercise can lead to a range of medical issues, from heart disease to depression. Thus, it is important for everyone to incorporate adequate exercise into their daily routine to ensure their well-being. Gardening and working with outdoor plants is a fun and easy way to add exercise to your life. Digging, planting, weeding, and potting your plants in moss planters and wood planter boxes burn calories and strengthen your heart improving your cardiovascular health. Working with plants helps you maintain a healthy weight and reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.

Although fake plants do not require watering, pruning, or weeding, cleaning and maintaining them does account for low-intensity physical activity. Creating lovely arrangements using foliage sprays, artificial flower stems, foam bricks, and floral foam balls and placing them on tall plant stands or in different locations around the house can effectively improve your physical health. Furthermore, changing your faux plants every so often or giving your decorative plants a new look with fancy pots and planters such as our metallic gold pot and small terracotta pots also keeps you moving and active.

Working With Plants Improves Hand Strength

Working with plants is a multi-sensory experience and getting your hands dirty brings a lot of benefits. Digging, planting, pulling out weeds and seedlings, and repotting them in different sized planters and pots increases your hand strength. All these activities help keep your fingers and hands strong even when you grow old. Moreover, gardening activities are also good exercises for children as they help enhance their motor skills and develop overall strength.

Plants Boost Your Immune System

Having indoor house plants in your home or office has many psychological benefits which in turn support your physical health. Evergreen plants have a calming aura to them that soothes the mind, improves your sleep, and makes you relaxed. All this helps your immune system to work more effectively and fight off bacteria and viruses especially during the cold and flu season. Moreover, big leaf plants release oxygen into the air increasing your oxygen saturation. And more oxygen means that your body works more efficiently. Real plants also release healthy, positive airborne chemicals that help reduce stress levels and your brain feels less fatigued. When you don’t feel stressed out or anxious, your immune system gets a natural boost. 

Being Around Plants Relieves Stress

Caring for house plants can reduce both physiological and psychological stress. It suppresses the sympathetic nervous system and promotes comfortable and relaxed feelings. Studies have shown that just being around and seeing greenery can also lessen the symptoms of anxiety. These relaxed and stress-free feelings help lower your blood pressure, heart rate and cortisol levels improving your physical health. However, if you don’t have a green thumb or you don’t want to add to your responsibilities, using artificial plants also has the same benefit. Just place a couple of artificial potted plants in your line of sight or adorn your wall space with lush greenery grass and floral panels to significantly reduce your stress levels and induce a calming atmosphere.

Plants Help Enhance The Mood

Colorful plants are known to brighten up the surroundings but they can also lift your mood. The vibrant hues and glistening foliage of plants imbue a cheerful vibe that usher positive energies into the space. Decorating your home with artificial indoor plants, colorful designer planter pots, and plant stands will not only accentuate the visual appeal of your interior but will also add to your happiness and help chase away the blues. Thus, interacting and bringing plants into your indoor spaces can help improve the state of mind and bring feelings of vitality that are the core elements to lead to a happy and healthy life.

Plants Have Healing Powers!

Plants have been used for their medicinal properties since ancient times. There are many different types and species of plants that can be used to treat different illnesses and conditions. Real plants like aloe vera and witch-hazel have powerful soothing properties that are beneficial for treating skin diseases.

However, using decorative plants in your home or office can also help decrease the risk of illnesses. People who spend most of their time indoors can suffer from ailments like headaches, skin and sinus irritations, nausea, and fatigue. Since live plants purify and remove particulate matter from the air, they help reduce the risk of irritated airways, runny rose, itchy eyes, and other allergies.

Moreover, real plants release water vapors into the air acting as natural humidifiers. They almost release all of the water they take in which helps increase the humidity levels of the room. More humidity helps improve respiratory conditions and skin health by offsetting the drying effects of heating and air conditioning systems. While placing house plants in your bedroom, living room, and dining area is the perfect way to add humidity back to the air, positioning indoor plants in your bathroom, kitchen, and other high humidity areas of your home will suck the extra moisture and help you achieve the optimum level of humidity making your space more comfortable.