If you’ve ever used hair dye, toothpaste, mouthwash, bleach, or first aid antiseptics, you’ve definitely been exposed to hydrogen peroxide.

Hydrogen peroxide is so effective at terminating germs, bacteria, viruses, and pollutants that it’s used in the many household products we use daily.

But, did you know hydrogen peroxide is also a safe and effective way to clean the air in your home?

The special cleaning properties of hydrogen peroxide

Controlled oxidation is an excellent way to destroy organics such as odors, viruses, bacteria, VOCs, and mold. Luckily, hydrogen peroxide is an oxidizer that does just that!

What is hydrogen peroxide?

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a compound of two-parts hydrogen and two-parts oxygen. It’s very close to water (H2O) with one extra atom of oxygen.

In fact, hydrogen peroxide has been used by the medical community for upwards of 170 years, mostly for disinfecting purposes.

What can you use hydrogen peroxide for?

Peroxide is considered to be the safest oxidizer available, after oxygen. This is why you may have seen it used in toothpaste, mouthwash and other household cleaners. Even the CDC gets behind using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning purposes!

Here are just a few more ways hydrogen peroxide can be used:

• Cleaning the dishwasher
• Scrubbing the sink
• Disinfecting counters and cutting boards
• Washing vegetables
• Cleaning garbage cans
• Shining mirrors and glass surfaces
• Improving your home’s airflow
• Removing mold and mildew

However, there are some limitations. Despite it being very safe, hydrogen peroxide is still a chemical and should not be used directly on skin, swallowed or eaten, or inhaled directly without filtration.

Why is an air purifier beneficial to your home?

Air purification systems are becoming more and more important nowadays. Not too long ago, you could only find these magical air cleaners in hospitals or commercial industries.

As air quality continues to worsen due to air pollution, people are feeling the effects of not having clean air. By having an air purifier in your home, it can have a great deal of benefits to your and your family’s overall health.

What is an air purifier?

Looming contaminants in the air work hard to keep our health on edge. Air purifiers are just as it sounds. They purify and clean the air from undesirable particles and volatile organic compounds that would otherwise cause issues for our bodies with everything from allergens to cancer.

They’re so effective at air cleaning, that during the pandemic air purifiers became widely used for their ability to decrease exposure to COVID-19 aerosols indoors.

How does it work?

Allergens like mold spores, smoke, pet dander, pollen, viruses, and many other pollutants can wreak havoc on your immune system. Air purifiers filter out these invisible home invaders, pulling them out of the air and trapping them inside a high efficiency particulate air filter, also known as an HEPA air filter.

Many air purification systems help reduce the growth of these microorganisms within your home and effectively destroy airborne pathogens and other contaminants including, VOC odors, CO, CO2, and dissolved gas.

Hydrogen peroxide meets your HVAC system

In the late 1990s, RGF Environmental patented an ionized hydro-peroxide technology called Photohydroionization (PHI) that creates hydro-peroxides from moisture in the air within an HVAC system.

Essentially, PHI simulates the natural hydro-peroxides in the outdoor air and releases this into your home. PHI kills microbes at the source, instead of trapping them within your filter system.

The air within your home will smell cleaner, as 55% to 98% of odors are reduced. This process is a well developed way to proactively sanitize the air within your home!

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