Product Upgrades for a Healthier Home

by Lauren Busser The House Designers’ Editorial Director

Leading a happy and healthy life starts in your home. We looked into some of the best products on the market that can make your home and your family healthier. From a bidet toilet seat that improves personal hygiene to an air purifier that will make your indoor air fresher and cleaner these products can improve your quality of life, and give you a bit of well-deserved luxury, too.

Your bathrooms see a lot of traffic, and there's no longer any reason to continue using an ordinary toilet seat. Brondell® offers you a variety of ways to upgrade this much used fixture, and their bidet seats fit nearly every standard toilet to instantly upgrade it into a luxurious fixture. A Swash® Bidet Seat brings benefits for your personal hygiene, health, and even the planet by reducing paper use.

Want to green your home? Consider the amount of toilet paper consumed in the average home. Americans use 34 million rolls of toilet paper every day. That equals 221 thousand trees, 68 million pounds of green house gases, and 161 kilowatt hours of electricity. If this doesn't sit well with you, you're not alone and it's another reason to take a look at the Swash® Bidet Toilet Seats. This green product can reduce the amount of toilet paper used by 75 to 100 percent.

Swash® Bidet Seats are also great for those who suffer from hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, incontinence, and Crohn’s disease because they reduce or eliminate the need for abrasive toilet paper. Relief is provided by its touch free cleansing and drying.

You can also say goodbye to cold toilet seats on your late night trips to the bathroom with Brondell’s® LumaWarm® Heated Nightlight Toilet Seat. LumaWarm® offers the luxury and comfort of a heated seat with an illuminating LED nightlight. You can select your personal temperature settings from four temperature options. The elegant LED light can be controlled by the on/off button and illuminates the toilet seat with a blue glow. Add the quiet, slow closing seat hinge and LumaWarm® will quickly become a must-have for every bathroom.

There is no compromise when it comes to the air you breathe. The Environmental Protection Agency places Indoor Air Quality as one of the top five environmental risks to public health. Many homeowners are not aware that their indoor air quality can be 100 times worse than the air outside. Your best defense against indoor air pollutants is the O₂ Air Purifier.

An O₂ Air Purifier is your watchdog against the toxic onslaught of particles that can affect your home’s indoor air quality. The O₂ Air Purifer comprehensively removes toxic microparticulates, biologics, and even VOC gases to help make your home indoor air quality the best that it can be.

It used patented BioHygenic™ science that has evolved from purifying techniques used in the most toxic industrial and medical environments. It traps all three types of pollutants regardless of size in an inescapable water filtration system and then destroys them in an expedited process similar to what happens in nature.

The best thing about an O₂ Air Purifer is that it cleans air continuously without the need for replacing filters, constant cleaning, or any loss of efficiency.

Whether you want to upgrade your toilet seat or would like to to increase your indoor air quality, these products will make your home more luxurious and can make you and your family happier and healthier.