The Easiest and Cheapest Ways to Remove Dust from Air Without Air Purifier
Dust is a combination of dander, pollen, dead skins, virus, bacteria and various particles. It can be found anywhere in your home. No matter how clean you are, dust will float and gather in your home. Pets, pollen, bedding, furniture, and clothing are all common sources of dust.
The dust found in your home may trigger breathing and allergy problems for all of your family members - including sneezing, runny nose, cough and itchy eyes.
To remove dust in your home, it would be helpful to use an air purifier with a HEPA filter.
But you may wonder: How can I improve the air quality in my home naturally and without the help of an air purifier or ionizer machine? What to do if I don't have an air purifier?
Fortunately, there are many solutions to this problem. Instead of air purifiers, here we list top 12 easy and natural ways to help you remove dust at home. Read on for tips on improving your home's air quality.
Table of contents:
Part 1: Top 12 Ways to Purify Air in Home Without Air Purifiers
The following methods are tested and reviewed to be efficient in purifying air at home. Let's try these easy and natural ways together.
1. Apply a Vacuum Cleaner to Remove Dust in Home
It's a good idea to use a vacuum cleaner to remove dust in your home. Sweeping the floor will disturb the dust, making it spread around the house. Using a vacuum cleaner with a floor brush will suck everything up without scratching your floor.
Vacuum your house twice a week. Use a vacuum cleaner to clean every surface of your home, including carpets, sofas, beds and curtains. If you have a pet, you may need to vacuum every day.
Similar to HEPA air purifiers, vacuum cleaners with HEPA air filters can capture 99.97% of particles, including dust and dust mites. It is recommended to replace the HEPA filter every 6-8 months depending on usage, which ensures the dust sucked by the vacuum cleaner does not return to the air.
2. Organize Your House
When purifying air without air purifiers, you need to keep your space clean and organized. Piles of garbage and sundries are attractive to dust and easy to cause dust accumulation.
The more organized your home is, the fewer spaces dust can gather. Throw away the things you don't need, and put the needed items in the cupboards or closets where can be vacuumed or cleaned quickly and regularly.
3. Clean or Get Rid of Your Carpet
Dust will cling tightly to the carpet. No one wants to walk on a dusty carpet. When you or your family walk across a carpeted floor, the flowing air will kick up the dust on the carpet. In this case, dust will suspend in the air, and be inhaled by you or your family members.
Therefore, in order to reduce the dust in the air, it isn't advised to use carpets at home. If you do, you should clean it once a week with a vacuum cleaner.
Besides, make family "rules" in rooms with carpets to control the amount of dust accumulating on the carpet. For example, anyone needs to take off their slippers before walking onto the carpeted floor. It is not allowed to eat on the carpet to avoid the food debris falling.
4. Make Sure the Room Is Well Ventilated
Ventilation is the key to good indoor air quality. You can keep the air flowing and circulating by opening the doors and windows, letting the air and wind go through your home. You will be surprised how fresh the air is. This is the simplest and most natural method.
In addition, installing exhaust fans and fans in the room can also increase air circulation and remove dust in your home.
5. Keep Your Pets Under Control
Set up a separate room for your pet, preferably with its nest in the yard or balcony. Don't allow it to play indoors. You can take it to the park every day.
6. Groom Your Pets
If you live with your pet, pet dander and hair can be found almost everywhere in your home. You need to groom your pet regularly to keep dander to a minimum, and vacuum the floors and furniture once a day to purify the air in your home.
Even if you are not allergic to pet dandruff, keeping your pet clean will help your family live in a cleaner space.
7. Run the Air Conditioner
By moving air through an air filter inside the air conditioner, air conditioners help to remove dust in your home. Every time the air goes past the air filter, dust is filtered.
The air filter collects dust, so it is necessary to clean it on a regular basis in order to keep it in good working order. Otherwise, the dust inside will return to the air again through the piping system.
8. Put Your Shoes Outside Home
Up to 60% of dust particles enter into home from the outside. There is a lot of dust and bacteria on the surface of your shoes.
When you put your shoes indoors, you bring dust and bacteria into your home as well. These pollutants will be transferred to the floor and eventually into the air.
Put your shoes outside the home to reduce the chance of dust entering the room.
9. Keep Houseplants in the Room
Houseplants can purify the air. They usually have large, shiny, waxy leaves that provide a wide surface area to attract and trap dust. Some plants that can catch indoor dust are lotus leaf trees, peace lily, rubber plants, ivy, and pygmy date palm.
Indoor plants can also protect you from common toxins such as formaldehyde and benzene. Plants with wrinkled or hairy leaves can remove more dust.
10. Clean/Change Your Bedding Every Week
We spend at least a third of our day in bed. It is one of the places where hair and skin coming off our bodies are easily gathered.
Washing and changing bed sheets every week can reduce the number of dust mites and bacteria on the bed, making them have little chance of getting into the air.
11. Use Essential Oils to Purify the Air in Your Home
The essential oil not only smells good, but also has the ability to kill bacteria and molds. Lemon, clove, lavender and tea tree essential oils can help you clean, deodorize and purify the air in your home, making you breathe easier.
You can use the essential oil diffuser to spray the oil in your room, or put a few drops of essential oil in a bowl of water in your bedroom.
Using the right essential oil, you can reduce indoor pollution and get clean, fresh and healthy air.
12. Keep Humidity Low
Humidity does not reduce the amount of dust in the home. On the contrary, it will cause dust particles to adhere to each other and cannot spread in the air.
However, high humidity (generally over 40%) has a negative impact on household air. Because dust mites prefer humid environments, they absorb water from humid air to survive. The reproduction of dust mites can be inhibited by controlling the indoor humidity to about 40%. You may need a humidifier to control the air's moisture level.
Part 2: Takeaway
Though you are able to use the above easiest ways to remove dust from the air, air purifiers are still the best solution to remove dust while easing allergy or asthma symptoms.
Air purifiers generally have multiple filters to trap dust, bacteria, mold spores and other contaminants. If you want the fresh air at home, adding an air purifier is the most effective way. You and your family will enjoy a breath "heaven" without extra efforts.
Hence, Purivortex engineers recommend using air purifiers for dust. Your home will be dust-free by using an air purifier with a HEPA filter.
Part 3: Infographics
