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You’ve probably seen the commercial: A mom walks into a teenager’s room, takes a sniff and tells him no “nice” girl would ever want him because his room smells like (shocker!) teenage boy. She tells him it’s time to “wash” his room and hands him a bottle of Febreze, which he proceeds to spritz on every stinking surface in the room, from his pillow to his bed. In the next scene a girl walks in, sniffs around, and decides the boy is all right. car headlight cleaner halfordsThere’s so much wrong with this commercial, I could go on for hours… but I want to focus on the one that is going to have a long-term effect on health: air fresheners. holmes air purifier manualThey can be quite harmful to your health, and the same can be said about disposable diapers.nippon air purifier

I always gag when I walk into a Febreze-sprayed room. The worst is when the cleaning crew uses it like crazy in actors’ trailers, and then we have to sit in there all day. Air fresheners come in many different forms, from air and fabric sprays to plug in “burners” to solids. While they can perfume the air of your home, they don’t actually neutralize smells and they can wreak havoc on your home’s air quality. According to the EPA1, air freshener contains four basic ingredients: formaldehyde, petroleum distillates, aerosol propellants, and p-dichlorobenzene. Formaldehyde can cause a number of health effects including: Petroleum distillates come from petrochemical manufacturing, which contribute to air, soil, and groundwater pollution. The effects on human health include: Aerosol propellants can harm earth’s ozone layer. Likewise, they can damage human health including: Paradichlorobenzene (p-DCB) is often found in mothballs and may cause: Of course, air fresheners also contain fragrance, often in the form of perfumed chemicals.

It’s quite ironic, really, that something designed to “improve” indoor air quality by making it smell better actually winds up making your home more toxic. Studies show that use of air fresheners in the home can trigger asthma and allergies, along with other breathing problems. Because your home is a relatively closed space, adding elements that diminish air quality can harm your family and contribute to the toxic brew of chemicals that wind up trapped in your system. Air fresheners can also harm pets, which have a faster metabolism. They may also be especially dangerous for people with pulmonary conditions such as asthma, allergies, or COPD. Everyone’s home can get a little stale from time to time. If you’d like to sweeten your environment, however, you can make far healthier choices than air fresheners. Here are a few suggestions. 1. Make a pomander. Stud an orange with whole cloves and cure it in the oven on low heat for about an hour – or place it in a paper bag somewhere cool and dry for about six weeks.

Hang it with a ribbon or set in a pretty bowl to sweetly scent the area. 2. Open the windows. Every house can benefit from a good airing out. On a day with good air quality and a slight breeze, open your windows for a few hours. Open windows on all sides of the house to create a cross breeze that gets air moving.You can simmer spices such as whole cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg on the stovetop or in a simmering pot. 4. Odor absorbers: Use a neutral odor absorbent such as a box of baking soda in a stinky area, or sprinkle especially smelly spots (such as the garbage can) with a little vinegar and baking soda. 5. Vinegar can remove odors from surfaces when you spray a little on and wipe it up. 6. Create your own potpourri from bulk herbs, flowers, and spices and leave a little in a bowl. 7. Use essential oils. Dab a little on a light bulb or a warmer to gently scent a room. 8. Put a little citrus peel down the garbage disposal and turn it on to de-stink your drain.

9. Eliminate cooking odors by placing a shallow bowl of vinegar nearest the scent. 10. Soak a cotton ball in vanilla and place it in a bowl where you want your home to smell better. Try these natural options- and ditch the toxic, store-bought air fresheners!You want Pure Cool? Now, Dyson already makes beautiful things for moving air around and slightly-less-sexy (but T3 Award-nominated) things for moving air around and humidifying it. Now it makes the bafflingly named Pure Cool Link. It's a similarly attractive thing for moving air around and cleaning it, for not a great deal more than its non-purifying fans. Which seems like a decent deal, to us.• Is Dyson also making a car?• Probably not, but it has made a very nice light. Modern houses - and particularly flats - tend to have terrible air quality. That, ironically, is thanks to their excellent insulation and double glazing - you just can't win, sometimes. And if you use scented candles, air fresheners, Glade plug-ins and the like, that just makes matters worse, adding further fumes to the chemical stew that is your home's atmosphere.

It's not possible to say what the health effects of all this are, or even if there are any, but it's fair to say that a home full of smog is not a good thing. Enter Dyson Pure Cool, a typically attractive, well-engineered (over 350 prototypes were tested during its design process) and premium-priced object of air-moving desire.Looking very much like Dyson's splendid fans, Pure Cool Link comes in a desktop (£350) and tower (£450) version. It uses a unique 360-degree Glass HEPA filter to suck "99.95% of allergens, odours and pollutants as small as 0.1µ" from your festering kitchen-dinerette.The glass filter costs £50, and should be replaced every 12 months with normal use. The science bit: 1.1 m² of constructed microfibers, pleated over 200 times, mean it can trap minute particles - not just pollen but chemical traces and even bacteria.The first connected Dyson product, the Pure Cool Link has an app that allows you to monitor your place's air quality from afar, and track how it changes over time.