- Vacuum once a week. This is good for your carpet and good for your air, as long as you’re vacuuming with a clean filter!
- Wash your sheets every week. Dust mites like to hang out in dirty sheets where there’s plenty of sweat and skin cells to make a home in. Yuck! Banish them by washing your sheets in hot water.
- Clean the mattress, too. There are several ways to clean a mattress: you can steam clean and let dry for several hours until there’s no dampness left or you can sprinkle it with baking soda, allow it to sit for a few hours and absorb the moisture and dirt in your mattress, then vacuum it away.
- Use houseplants. All houseplants purify the air, but some are better at it than others. Check online or ask your nursery for ones that are known to be helpful for cleaning the air.
- Switch to natural cleaners. Many more potent chemical cleaners release chemicals into the air you don’t want to breathe, so when possible, find more natural, safer alternatives.