You’ve gotten the hang of buying organic foods, wiping your counters with plant-based cleaning solutions and using natural beauty supplies. But the uncharted territory of your bedroom still hangs in the balance. Here are four ways to get it in line with the rest of your healthy home.
1. Switch your laundry soap
There are some great recipes out there for making your own laundry soap, but in the absence of interest in such daring domestic feats, you can get your hands on ecofriendly and effective laundry soap like the Clean Collection Laundry Detergent from Vitacost. It’s available in a variety of scents, or even fragrance free, and its plant-based formula will keep your clothes clean without adding more petroleum pollution to the planet.
2. Ionize your air
According to the Environmental Working Group, indoor air pollution isa serious threat to our health. The quality of air inside your home is often worse than the air outside. In addition to opening your windows on a regular basis to clear our dust and various debris from electronics, furniture, and such, adding a Himalayan salt crystal lamp can help clean and ionize the air in your room.
3. Essential Oils keep things fresh
Essential oil based linen and furniture fresheners are a great replacement for the chemical filled stuff that’s overtaken the shelves in your local store. You can also utilize a diffuser to disperse your favorite essential oils throughout your room keeping things smelling fresh and clean.
4. Consider an organic mattress
The tide has turned, and anyone claiming organic is a fad is clearly choosing the ostrich approach to life. More and more there are safer and healthier versions of every day items available to us. Mattresses made without hazardous glues, organic cotton, and even organic latex are now widely available. You spend, on average, a third of every day sleeping on your mattress, shouldn’t it be a healthy one?