Houseplants are more than just beautiful additions to your home. They have so many benefits for your health and well-being as well. Since we spend so much of our lives indoors it’s good for us to surround ourselves with a bit of nature. In case you didn’t have enough reasons to buy houseplants already...here’s a few more!
Health Benefits of Houseplants:
1. Elevates your Mood
Plants make you happier! Bringing yourself back to nature does wonders for your mental health. Caring for living things can help with loneliness or depression. Having plants indoors gives you the illusion that you are outdoors which boosts your mood. Just seeing the little life and greenery by surrounding yourself with plants is enough to start elevating your mood!
2. Reduces Stress
They help relax you. Connecting with nature and focusing on caring for your plants helps to put you at ease. Plants such as lavender are known for calming you down and with reducing stress and anxiety. Just simply being in the presence of any plant has calming effects on people.
3. Improves your Overall Health
If you thought that flowers and plants in hospital rooms were just a kind gesture that’s only part of the truth, according to researchers they have been known to speed up patient recovery. Boosting your immune system and decreasing your chances of a cold or flu is one more way they help out. (And we already touched on some mental health benefits above.)
4. Promotes more Productivity & Creativity
When you have a tidy workspace that you are proud of more ideas, better focus, and more problem solving arise. Having houseplants makes you concentrate better than not having them. When you have a tidy environment you are naturally more productive because there is less clutter for your mind to focus on. The more productive or creative you are the better you feel.
5. Improves Air Quality
Plants increase the oxygen and your home and naturally purify the air by removing toxins. They remove VOC toxins from the air. VOCs (Volatile organic compounds) such as formaldehyde, are found in everyday materials like cleaners, paints, inks, carpets, and plastics. They also add humidity to the air which makes it easier for you to breathe.
6. Promotes healing
Plants have been promoting healing for thousands of years. Some of these plants are common houseplants! Aloe Vera for example, is great for soothing sunburns, cuts, and other small burns. Herbs such as Mint, have been known to support your immune and digestive system. Both herbs and aloe are very easy to grow indoors.
It is only natural that plants would give benefits to our health. We quite literally need each other to survive. We give life to each other. Plants are so much more than decor. They are in a lifelong symbiotic relationship with all of us. Plants and people are made for each other.
