Your Home

Having a humidifier or dehumidifier in your home is essential to both your health and its upkeep.

Humidifiers Keep You Healthy – Ever feel all bunged up in cold or dry weather? Well, that is because of a lack of moisture in the air. Humidity allows the tiny hairs in your nose to move and do their job of filtering out bacteria and viruses that cause colds and the flu. By adding moisture to your home, you are allowing those tiny hairs to do their job, and keep you healthy.  

Treats Illness – If you are already sick, moisturizing air with a humidifier can help soothe the symptoms of colds or flu. When the air is too dry your sinuses don’t drain and function correctly, leaving you feeling blocked up and in pain.  

Helps You Heal Faster – Humidifiers don’t only treat your illness and relieve your symptoms, but they also allow you to heal faster.

No More Nosebleeds – It is essential to have your nasal passages moist and lubricated (with water, of course!) to prevent nosebleeds. 

Humidifiers Reduce Snoring – Snoring is caused by low moisture levels in your nose and soft palate. Moisture can also be added to the air with a humidifier. By adding moisture, you fight off the dryness that leads to snoring – leaving both you and your partner happy.

 

BEAUTY

Moisturize Your Skin – Blasting the heat throughout your home during the winter months dries out the air. This can leave your skin looking and feeling tight, dry, and itchy (especially around areas like your hands). Dry air also causes chapped lips more often and more easily in winter which can often feel painful. By sleeping with your humidifier at night, you can add moisture to the air. 

Help Reduce the Appearance of Wrinkles – Making sure that the wrinkles do not show up in the first place is the best way to treat them. The drier your skin is, the more prominent your wrinkles become. A humidifier helps fill the room with nourishing, moisturizing steam that can smooth out your skin and help reduce the appearance of wrinkles.

Help to Prevent Breakouts – When you strip the oils from your face with a cleanser, your skin is forced to produce even more oil to compensate which can result in a nasty breakout. Similarly, when the air dries out the sensitive skin on your face, your oil production kicks up and may cause blemishes. Keeping the correct humidity levels in your home helps banish acne and soothes dry skin. Combine the use of the humidifier with applying moisturizer specific to your skin type to further improve your skin and keep it looking amazing as well as breakout-free.

 

CHILDREN

Sleep Easier – If you have a have a baby or toddler in your home, then setting up a humidifier in their room will help them sleep and feel better. Babies tend to be more comfortable and sleep better in a humidified environment. The best part is that a comfortable, sleeping baby provides a restful night for everyone in the house.  

Breathe Easily – Providing moisture to the air in your baby’s room is one way to make sure your child is more comfortable, especially if you can tell that he or she is fighting a cold. The moisture provided by a humidifier can help loosen congestion. During times of sickness, the heated air in our homes, especially during winter, can make your baby’s nose burn. This often leads to endless crying until the issue is resolved by putting on the humidifier. 

 

HOME

Humidifiers Help to Protect Furnishings – If you have wooden furniture and flooring, you should have a humidifier. Too much moisture or dryness can be an enemy to your wood furniture – causing various problems. Too much moisture often leads to mildew while too little moisture causes dryness. Dryness in furniture can cause it to lose its natural luster and develop weakened joints. Maintaining a consistent temperature in your home by using a humidifier can help to establish the perfect balance for your furniture to remain preserved and beautiful all year round. 

Helps to Hydrate Your Indoor Plants – Many species of indoor plants originally come from tropical climates with high humidity. With many homes drying out during the winter months, indoor air does not offer adequate humidity for these plants to thrive.  

Humidifiers Control Static Electricity – The dry air in your home not only causes your socks to stick to your pants and shirts but also causes static electricity. With a humidifier, you can simply lessen the potential for static electricity throughout the year and almost completely control it by keeping the humidity from dropping. Added static electricity in your home can be annoying, but it can also be a real danger to your electronic equipment – including your computer.

How Humid Should Your Home Be

Many people are unaware that the level of moisture in the air of their home is doing them harm. Particularly during winter months, low humidity occurs and brings with it an increased risk of dry skin, chapped lips, sinus infection, cough symptoms, and much more.

To help balance out the levels of humidity in your home it is a wise idea to purchase a humidifier. Moisture in a room is essential for staying healthy. Humidifiers work to maintain healthy moisture levels in the air. Having humidity in the air is vitally important and not only helps your health but can also help your furniture to last longer. On top of this, during winter months a humidifier can reduce your bills since humid air feels warmer, and you’ll end up using less energy to stay cozy and warm.