Keep A Houseplant In Your Bedroom? We Have Some News

If you’ve ever heard that having a plant in your room could help to “purify” the air as you sleep, you’ve probably been influenced by a far-reaching NASA study from the ’80s. 

This found that indoor plants, like snake plants and aloe vera, could help to get rid of formaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the air. 

Some have extrapolated from that that placing some plants in your room could help you sleep, though that is not what the original NASA study claimed.