Room air fresheners filter odor by oxidizing and ionizing air to purify it.

Does your room, or better yet, your entire house need some freshening up? Why just spray a sweeter scent to hide polluted air, when you can purify the entire room?

Room Air Freshener
In common homes there are many harmful particles that result from common pollutants such as dust, tobacco smoke, pollen, molds, animal dander and hairs, and other gaseous, liquid or solid sources. Even if you eliminate the source of the pollution, and even if you have a ventilation system, the air around you could still be contaminated with unhealthy particles. Oxidizing the air to purify it creates a risk in causing high PPM ozone contentration in the room air. This could have more deleterious effects than the original pollution and cause a person’s allergies or asthma to flare up as well as induce other illnesses.

Ionic air purifiers have pros and cons worth mentioning. Ionic air cleaners charge particles in the air and attract them to walls, floors or a collector. Depending on where the particles accumulate, ionic purifiers can be much easier to clean up. Ionic cleaners have received negative marks in the past by Consumer Reports for being less efficient than electronic or mechanical models when purifying large rooms. Furthermore, production of ozone, a possible lung irritant, is a concern for electronic and ionic cleaners. Oxidizer air purifiers emit ozone at varying PPM. Many consumer reports factor in the safety risks to breathing ozone from air purifiers when reviewing a room air filter. However, some companies are working around this problem and are now manufacturing ionic purifiers with little or no ozone. Check the key features to see if ozone risk is reduced.