How to remove formaldehyde from brown mattresses

A newly renovated home may easily have excessive formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is very harmful to the human body and can cause respiratory diseases, nuclear gene mutations, chromosomal abnormalities in newborns, leukemia, memory loss in adolescents and other problems. Brown mattresses may also have formaldehyde. For our health, we need to remove the formaldehyde from the brown mattresses. So today, let’s take a look at how to remove formaldehyde from brown mattresses.

"Onions can remove formaldehyde" and "Grapefruit peels can remove formaldehyde". These tips for removing formaldehyde that can be found everywhere on the Internet are tantamount to covering one's ears and stealing the bell, and are self-deceiving. Onions do not have any ability to decompose formaldehyde. The strong smell of these things masks the irritating gas of formaldehyde. Do you think that if you can no longer smell it, the formaldehyde will disappear? In fact, formaldehyde still exists. And there was no effect.

If onions and grapefruit peels don’t work, then I can probably use plants to absorb formaldehyde, right? Sorry, it really can’t!

Although plants can absorb a small amount of formaldehyde, it is just a drop in the bucket for indoor formaldehyde levels that exceed the standard and it is difficult to have any effect. According to relevant experiments, a 90-square-meter room needs at least 150 pots of green radish to exist at the same time to meet the adsorption needs. This level is only possible if you move the forest park back home...

In addition, many people believe that activated carbon bags can absorb formaldehyde. Yes, activated carbon can indeed absorb formaldehyde, but like plants, the adsorption capacity of activated carbon is also very limited. It is a drop in the bucket for indoor formaldehyde exceeding the standard!

Moreover, if the activated carbon is not treated after it becomes saturated with adsorption, such as being exposed to the sun or replaced with a new one, it is very likely that the adsorbed formaldehyde will be released into the air again due to reasons such as increased ambient temperature, causing secondary pollution.

The adsorption principle of the air purifier can refer to the activated carbon bag. If the filter element is not replaced in time, it will not be of much help in removing formaldehyde.

There are some companies on the market that specialize in formaldehyde removal, and they use photocatalysts to carry out their work. So is photocatalyst useful in removing formaldehyde? Different from the previous methods, photocatalyst acts like a catalyst, prompting the formaldehyde in the air to continue to volatilize and shortening the time required for volatilization. However, this photocatalyst requires many conditions to work. First of all, there must be continuous ultraviolet radiation. Only with the participation of ultraviolet rays can the photocatalyst react with formaldehyde. Therefore, it is difficult to clean those corners and furniture that never see light. Secondly, it requires professionals to operate. If the spraying is not done properly, the effect will not be good. The most important point is that photocatalyst can only remove formaldehyde once, and has no effect on formaldehyde that continues to evaporate.

Opening windows for ventilation can be said to be the lowest cost and most effective method, which can effectively reduce the formaldehyde concentration in the air. However, it is also due to the continuous release of formaldehyde in the room. This method cannot completely eliminate formaldehyde. Moreover, some people still detect formaldehyde residue problems after opening windows for ventilation for one or two years.