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Understanding UV Light Technology in Air Purifiers

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Exposure to UV lights is something that every person is most likely exposed to each and every day, whether they know it or not. UV lights can be used in commercial, industrial, and healthcare settings to fight off a wide variety of pollutants, bacteria, viruses, etc. Additionally, UV lights will also be found in the rays of the sun that you are basking in when having a beach day or hanging by the pool. This electromagnetic radiation comes from the sun and is transmitted at different wavelengths and frequencies into the air space where individuals can eventually become exposed and unprotected from in their environment. When it comes to UV light, on the electromagnetic spectrum the UV light will fall between visible light and x-rays, this will ultimately be split into different UV light classifications – UVA, UVB, or UVC. These different UV light classifications have most recently been popularly deployed in air purification systems as a means to effectively kill and remove microo...

Is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate Bad for Your Skin?

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Simply cleaning your clothing in the laundry can result in a variety of chemicals that can enter onto your clothes and impact not only the fabrics material that has been washed by this cleaning agent, but it may also have a lasting impact on your health – specifically your skin. The everyday laundry products that most households use to clean their garments can include laundry detergent, fabric softener, freshening beads, and a variety of other laundry care products that have become popular in recent years. However, before we use these products, we often neglect to look closer at the ingredient list of these products to determine the various chemical agents that are used to provide these products its cleaning capabilities in the washing machine. And these seemingly harmless laundry care products can harbor within them potential threats to human health. A common ingredient that is found in several cosmetic and household products that has been found to elicit certain adverse healt...

What Does a Carbon Filter Air Purifier Do Indoors?

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When it comes time to making that big decision about what kind of air purifier you truly need inside of your home, there are many different questions and answers that you must know prior to this purchase. Each air purifier has several different components that will differ from other air purifiers, whether that be the size of the air purifier, how much square feet it covers in the environment, the type of technology that is used to filter the indoor air, how long the filters in this air device last, and even the cost to use this air purifier 24/7 inside of your home. The technology that is used in an air purifier is usually one of the most important features of an air purifier that will provide air filtration and pollutant removal of specific types of airborne pollution in a home. Carbon (aka activated carbon, activated charcoal, etc.) is a well-known and popularly used air purifier technology that is integrated into air filters that are placed within these devices to filter the i...

Disadvantages of Spray Foam Insulation

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Are you considering spray foam insulation for your new home or even are a current homeowner that is stuck dealing with the concerning material inside of your home? Spray foam insulation is a building material that has been used for many years, nearly 30 years by many home builders and homeowners and placed in attics and roofs for insulation. As this building material has been continually used for decades, there has been increasingly more information and studies that have found that this popular, and seemingly un-harmful construction material may be anything but harmless when used in your home and exposed to continually each and every day. Spray foam insulation can potentially contain a hazardous mixture of chemicals that can spread into the airspace of the indoor environment and lead to health risks to those exposed to this now tainted indoor air in their home’s. The disadvantages of spray foam insulation have recently come to the forefront, with multiple studies and research col...