2. Go green. Plants remediate—clean up—the air fabulously well. Pothos and spider plants are great for formaldehyde. Gerbera daisies, peace lilies, palms and English ivy are also good “cleaners.” (Watch this for more details.)

3. Change your air filters regularly (sounds like a no-brainer, but when’s the last time you changed yours?)

4. Avoid cooking with non-stick coated pans. The chemicals in them are very persistent: they don’t break down in water or light or heat... Use your grandmother’s old cast iron, and you’ll be impressed!

5. Use chemical-free (cloth) dryer sheets.

6. Use non-toxic cleaners in your house (lemon, salt, and vinegar are fabulous cleaner-uppers.

7. When you buy something plastic that smells, leave it outside to off-gas, rather than locking those volatile chemicals in your house.

8. If you get your clothes dry-cleaned at a shop that uses PERC (and about 80% of you do), let those clothes air out (take the bag off, and hang them in your garage) before you stuff them in your closet.

9. Use natural air fresheners, rather than spraying synthetic chemicals all over your home. A bowl of lavendar is great. I love lemon verbena, too.

10. Free your soles! Taking off shoes in the house is said to limit some two-thirds of the schmutz entering through the door. That’s good in terms of less to clean up, and great when you think about all the benzene and other chemicals you’ll reduce in your indoor environment!

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