Over days, months and years, your carpets attract and maintain a variety of unseen pollutants. What might look like a clean, stain-free carpet may be a breeding ground for contamination. Have you heard of Sick Building Syndrome or SBS? The term, coined by The World Health Organization in the 1980s, refers to conditions affecting office workers attributed to unhealthy factors…
A few squirts of a homemade citrus solution can be used as part of your arsenal to keep cats and dogs away from areas where you don’t want them. Our cats and dogs – the most common pets we own – have a sense of smell that is far more sensitive than we humans possess. Some dogs, especially male dogs,…
Most of us simply run a vacuum over a carpet and call it clean, but the truth is that the fibers in carpets can hold a massive amount of germs. In fact, some carpets can be 4,000 times dirtier than your toilet seat, according to microbiologist Dr. Philip Tierno. “Rugs are botanical and zoological parks,” Tierno told Mens Health. He estimates…
