"Dear Lily,

I am writing to compliment you and Allergy Cosmos on your excellent service and products.  

We live in the City of London and were hoping to improve the quality of our air, given the high background pollution levels and our beloved four Burmese cats.  We also have Cystic Fibrosis and Asthma in the family and believed an air purifier would assist us.   

We had an expert indoor air assessment done of our flat, and we were truly shocked by how high the particle count was outside our apartment.  Inside we found the expected high level of larger particles (in our case cat dander and building dust), but outside was a high level of more dangerous small particles (traffic pollution). 

We found your website on the Internet and having researched the options, called you to ask about the Read More

Allergy Cosmos is delighted to receive the 2011 Platinum Award from Janey Lee Grace for the category "THE BEST OF THE BEST IN NATURAL BEAUTY, HEALTH AND WELLBEING." Janey Lee Grace commented on choosing the popular Allersearch ADMS Anti Allergen Dust Spray by saying:

“We love the fact that the ADMS Dust Spray can be used on carpets, furnishings, car interiors et al to neutralise allergens such as pollen, mildew, house dust and dust mite allergens.”  Janey Lee Grace – Imperfectlynatural.com

The Anti Allergen Dust Spray is part of a range of Anti-Allergen products exclusive to Allergy Cosmos.  Allersearch Anti-Allergen Dust Spray is the ideal

If you have asthma or another allergy, there is a wide range of different products that can help with allergy avoidance. Whether it’s a room air purifier, or just an alternative choice when stocking up for a spot of DIY, there’s likely to be something in the shops, or online, that’ll help in your allergy avoidance campaign.

Paint. If you are sensitive to volatile organic compounds (VOCs), then you need to shop for paint with care. Water-based paint, used for walls, and oil-based paint, used more for woodwork, can both contain high concentrations of VOCs which will continue to outgas once the paint has dried. DIY chain B & Q pioneered a ‘Globe’ symbol which all paints sold in its shops must carry. The Globe range goes from ‘minimal’ (0-0.29% VOC) to ‘very high’ (50-100% VOC). There are also paint ranges specially formulated to have no VOC content, such as

The IQAir HealthPro air purifier was recently named Best Air Purifier Overall by ConsumerSearch.Com, an organisation which analyses expert and user-generated consumer product reviews in order to recommend the best product. This fact alone need not lead you to choose this product if you are looking for an air purifier to help you deal with allergies or chemical sensitivities. But it should remind us of the importance of doing research, and getting questions answered, when investing in products, like air purifiers, which are meant to improve air quality and reduce exposure to allergens and other pollutants. 

Two key questions to think about, when choosing an air purifier, should be:

• What is the technology inside the air purifier ‘black box’ and how does it work?
• What allergens do I want to get rid of?

The IQAir HealthPro 250 (or

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is the smoke emitted from cigarettes, pipes and tobacco. Now that smoking has been banned in so many public places, pollution through secondhand smoke is not a problem anymore in most pubs, restaurants or clubs. Nevertheless, indoor air pollution due to cigarette or cigar smoke is still a major concern for many people within their home. If you have a neighbour that is a heavy smoker, or live near a place where people smoke (such as the garden of a pub), chances are that you will be exposed to a significant amount of chemical pollution from secondhand smoke.

Environmental tobacco smoke is a potent cocktail of over 4000 different substances and chemicals - some in particulate form (over a wide range of particle sizes from over 10 microns to as small as 0.01 microns) and some in the form of gas molecules (which are even

If someone in your family or home has asthma, an asthma air purifier can help by reducing the load of common asthma triggers in the air. Common asthma triggers are animal and house dust mite allergens, pollen, fungal/mould, chemical, as well as general traffic pollution.

Animal allergens (sometimes known as pet dander).

Cats, dogs, horses and smaller animals like hamsters and mice, fancy rats, snakes and insects all produce proteins within airborne particles which can trigger asthma, although their source varies. With cats, it is the sweat and saliva that contain the allergen, while with mice, rats and rabbits, it is their urine. The size of animal allergen particles varies between 0.1 to 10 microns. Cat allergen particles are at the lower end of this scale and are easily stirred up into the air, which means that they can readily be trapped by

My husband and I have been living in London for four years now, and enjoy it very much. However, there are some downsides, such as the high level of air pollution in the city. At first I did not notice it, but after a little while the pollution level became very apparent. You just have to blow your nose after taking the tube or look at the collar of your shirt at the end of the day and you will see what I mean.

I started looking for an air purifier. At first, I casually checked my local Tesco and Argos stores. I knew the quality of the air cleaner might not be the best, but I wanted to know my options. The sales people in both stores did not know very much about the purifiers they were selling. I had to trust the manufacturers’ claims listed on the box. All of these claims were too good to be true. I could not shake the feeling that I could be buying just another ‘gadget’ that

Claims made by manufacturers of air purifiers often look great, but then the system itself may fail to live up to your expectations. Air quality is important to your and your family’s health, whether it is at home, kindergarten, school or workplace. Therefore, we put together some guidelines for you to consider, before you invest in an air purifier.

Theoretical versus actual efficiency of an air purifier. High efficiency particulate air (HEPA) is the key word these days when it comes to marketing an air purifier. HEPA air purifiers give excellent performance in hospitals and industrial clean rooms. But be cautious when an air purifier manufacturer claims that their home purifier