Allison Evans

If you can reduce the amount of dust particulates in your home, you are doing your family the biggest service because what happens is you have volatile organic compounds and those actually get better over time.

They will out gas over time.

But what actually can do the most amount of damage are these semi-volatile organic compounds, because they actually ride on dust.

So they don't just, you know, go away with time.

They actually can increase with time just because dust will build up.

So, you know, for instance, looking even just at paint, and these brands will claim that they're no VOC.

Well, sadly, they're high in SVOCs, the semi-volatile organic compounds.

So you may be using what you think is a safer paint,

But if it still has those biocides that ride on dust, you're not really doing much good.

And so again, just investing in a HEPA vacuum, making sure that you're actually using it.

A lot of people get a vacuum and they're like, well, I never really use it.

And just keeping your home as dust-free as possible is really, really important.

And just again, like we buy furniture and we bring all these things inside of our home, our rugs, our carpet, our cabinetry,

I just got finished building a house and we're doing an entire series on that.

So if you're someone that's remodeling or building, you're welcome to check that out.

But there's, again, a lot we can't control.

So opening those windows and keeping your home vacuumed and getting the air purifier can take you a really long way.

I mean, mold.

I mean, I will say that's just straight from hell.

Mold's straight from hell.