Mosquito Repellent Plants For Home

Indoor plants are known for many great properties as pollution absorber, air freshener, humidity absorber, etc. but there is one more property that we should talk about is that few plants keep the mosquitos away from your house.

We need to understand first what attracts the mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are attracted mostly to all kinds of flowers to feed on the jews which are known as Nectar but there are many plants that repel them as well.

Here are few easy to be available plants which can be grown at home to keep the mosquitos away from home.

Marigold

Marigold is easily available in almost all plant lover’s home but many of them don’t know that this flower has a mosquito repeller property. This flower has a unique chemical substance in it which is called pirates room whose unique aroma keeps away the mosquitos. It releases this chemical and it diffuses into the air and it stops various kinds of mosquitoes like Anopheles and Aedes mosquito etc.

Tulsi or Holy Basil

This plant is also very common in Indian houses because of religious reasons but this plant is also a great mosquito repeller. Tulsi leaves have this chemical called tarragon which is also volatile and it emits into the air easily and we all know the smell of Tulsi.

Mint (Mentha)

Mint leaves are also known for great mosquitoes and insect repellent properties. Mints have mentha which has the aromatic property so if you crush mint leaves and rub it on your skin then it will keep you away from insects and mosquitos as well. It can be easily grown in a pot.

Lemon Grass

Another indoor plant is Lemon Grass which has the lemony smell which is also known for its great mosquito repellent property. It can easily be grown indoor and has many health benefits as well. Drinking lemon grass tea is full of health benefits like Good for Digestion, Full of antioxidants, Regulates High Blood Pressure, Boosts Metabolism and Burns Fat. Good for Skin and Hair, Heals Cold and Flu and many more..

Note: It’s suggested to keep these plants around the entry points like windows door and balcony areas.

Another thing that attracts mosquitoes is the stagnation of water in the plants. so we suggest that you avoid the stagnation of water in the pots and empty the drainage plates and keep the pots covered with pebbles stones or keep the dry soil plants like snake plants, money plants, etc.

5 indoor plants to grow at home

We really love our kitchen gardens or terrace gardens but these days indoor gardens are very popular.

Bill Wolverton an American scientist invented the air-purifying theory and tested few plants which were really helpful to clean the air of our surroundings. Isn’t it amazing?

Here are a few easy to grow Indoor Plants indoor plants that are best for air purification and can be effortlessly grown at home in small pots.

ZZ plant:

ZZ plant doesn’t need much care, in fact, it doesn’t need water frequently. Watering it twice a month is also good for it. You can easily keep it inside the gallery balcony. It needs to stay away from direct sunlight. You can keep it in the room at your desk as well. It’s really efficient to absorb pollutants that are generated from crude oil.

Rubber Plants:

There are two types of rubber plants available in India. You might have mostly seen the burgundy color rubber plants which are quite common and the other one is variegated kind. It needs the soil moist every time. It doesn’t need much water but the moisture needs to be there in the soil. You can keep this plant in your living room. It adds some height so you need a stick to give it little support. This plant also shouldn’t place directly under the sunlight. It is known for removing pollutants like formaldehyde from the air. Such chemicals are mostly found in paints, detergent or crude oil etc.

Fiddle leaf fig:

This plant comes with broader leaves which looks really beautiful. It’s known for reducing humidity along with air pollutants. So if there is a spot in your house that may have some fungal problems so you can grow in that corner. If anyone in our home has some breathing problem then it may be helpful. It needs bright place so you can place it near the window, It shouldn’t be in the dark place so either direct or indirect sunlight will work for it.

Areca palm:

This indoor plant is available in various sizes so whatever size you like for your Areca palm you can get it. You shouldn’t keep it in direct sunlight. It also needs moist soil so every 3-4 days you can water it. It’s very efficient in removing benzene and formaldehyde which are known for creating short term to long term immunity problems.

Monstera Adansonii:

This plant is also available in so many varieties. It looks really beautiful because of it’s growing with cut leaves naturally. It needs a bright area of the home where it can grow and also need moist soil. This is also efficient in removing formaldehyde from the air.

Most of the time people bring their favorite plants from the nursery or online and immediately put them into new pots and this way they give a sudden environment change to the plants. Plants may take some time to adapt to the new environmental conditions. So instead of putting them in a pot immediately better is to keep them in the same plastic bag for some time then place in the new pots. Happy gardening!!

5 Best Home Decor Ideas 2020

We say “Home Sweet Home” why? because home is where our heart is. Every woman loves to decorate their home with beautiful and creative ideas. So here we are giving you 5 of the topmost pocket-friendly home decor ideas of 2020

Paper Lanterns

Paper lanterns are back in trend, oriented from Japanese designer Isamu Noguchi. Choose a
white or bright color paper lantern to hang in your living room. This will a cooling effect in summers. Not only this, but you can also decorate them with pressed flowers. Firstly, make sure that flowers are completely dry, take a good quality glue and paste them on Paper Lantern to give a colorful effect. Such a pocket-friendly idea of the home decoration isn’t it?

Mix and Match your sheet lining

Rather than spending a hefty amount of money on bedsheets, you can go for a cheaper and fresh-
looking option. You can buy linen separately (on sale) and then mix and match the pattern. Not only you will save money but using a different textile bed sheet will give the room a remarkably interesting effect.

For testing the color co-ordination, you can first take a few small pieces of linen and mix and match them. Once you got the combination of your choice then you can take it for your room bed sheets. A cheaper yet interesting idea for a new look of your room.

Download wall art for free

If you cannot afford expensive art for your wall do not need to worry. Buy a cheap affordable frame and download an image of your choice from the internet. There are a variety of free colorful images, historic or vintage images available on Pinterest and Google.

If you want your wall to be more attractive, frame the pictures you took during travel, it will be your travel-inspired wall. How interesting and the pocket-friendly idea it is.

Decorate your living room with throw pillows

Giving an instant makeover to your living room, decorate it with throw pillows of different bright colors. You can find less then 10 dollar per pillow cover in the market. It is an inexpensive way to give a fresh and lively look to your living room. Like the mix and match bed cover idea, you can also take mix and match throw pillows with a combination of bright colors and sizes.

Your side table does not have to be a table

Back in 2016, the side table must be a table in brown or white color, it comes with a set of your furniture but in 2020 the trend is completely changed. Your side table does not have to be an overpriced brown boxy thing. It can be anything funky. You can use a cylinder, a repurposed ladder, or a chair! This will give a hipster and stylish look to your room in your budget

I hope this article helped you to get a cool funky pocket-friendly home decoration idea of 2020. Tell in comments if this article is helpful for you, also visit our website www.pickproducts.in for different topic related articles.

How to reduce your energy consumption?

Bringing down your monthly electricity bill of an average household of six people in India requires some simple calculation reading through this piece.

A typical house requires air conditioning, heating, refrigeration, water pump motors, cloth ironing, kitchen appliances like ovens, and cloth washers. Not to mention bulbs, fans, and recreational gadgets. All these appliances have a label at their back that indicates the total wattage of each one of them.

The first lesson in reducing your monthly electricity bill is to read the label. Let’s consider this example of a convection hybrid gas/ electric heater. The label says 100 volts input current on the top and 26 Watts besides it. So, the total current consumption of this device would be 26/100 =0.26 Amps, which is the current drawn by the convection fan.

We don’t want our total amperage for all our appliances combined to cross 13 Amp at any time in the day, on each phase. Let’s leave the phase concept for later. In truth, a small middle-class family doesn’t require any more amperage either, even while using low amperage air conditioners, heaters or refrigerators throughout the day.

Continuing with the same, our aim is also to keep all our Kilowatts shown on all the labels of our electric devices, below 3.5 KW on one phase, the average of a typical family. This wattage is something a rickety electric supply company that is typical of a third world country would easily be able to handle. Any total above this value will probably burst the top ceiling of the billing rate factor used to calculate your monthly bill. I will explain the phase concept separately.

Theoretically, your electric Supply Company sends in 100 Amps to your house. That is 100 x 240 volts = 24 kWatts. Diving 24000 into three phases would be 8000 watts (8kW) in each phase. But trust me, you don’t want to use all those, and they might not be available in peak summer and winter seasons.

An electric phase is like a water pipeline that you use in your kitchen, your washroom, and your garden simultaneously, but cannot increase the flow beyond a certain limit. In addition to that, you can’t get extra water from the other two water pipes, coming into your home.

Some typical Wattage of electrical appliances that we use are:

1.5 Ton Inverter AC – 1200 – 1800 Watts

Refrigerator – 300 -500 watts

Freezers – 450 Watts

LED TVs – 150 Watts

LED Bulbs or CFLs – 20 Watts

Ceiling Fans – 120 Watts

Conserving energy is not only pleasing for the eyes when you see your monthly bill steeply falling, but it is good for Mother Nature as well.

Some good energy conservation ideas worth looking into are:-

Convection hybrid gas / electric heaters of 4 KWh for winter months are very easy on the bill. With just a small fan that blows air over gas heated plates, is just perfect for an 18×20 feet room.

AC to DC inverter air conditioners, use less electricity because of the DC circuit and are less noisy too. The initial high cost is well compensated in a few scalding summers, typical for a South Asian country.

7 KW reversible solar system would not only generate more electricity during peak summer months that last up to 8 months in today’s global warming, but they also recover the initial high cost in 5 years tops. The rest would be salted margarita on the beach.

So next time you go shopping for your favorite automatic washer-dryer, do read the label at the back.

You are welcome!

6 Best Selling ACs in India This Year

Buying ACs for home is really a tough job but we can help you choosing the best Air conditioner which is going to be energy efficient with full of features and also good for your pocket these days. There are many brands available in India who are selling good ACs.

What is the definition of the best here? Let’s find out..

The best ACs are those which save energy and reduce your electricity bill, which are cost effective so it can save you some money, and are using latest technologies and giving more features. However, what are those features? are those really helpful for someone?

Its very trending to buy inverter ACs these days but what does it mean?

How Inverter ACs works?

Inverter technology was developed in Japan and being used in their country successfully for Air conditioners and Refrigerators. The inverter technology works according to the need of Air conditioner. When compressor requires more power, it delivers more power. When it requires less power, it delivers less power. The inverter AC’s compressor will always remain on, but overall it consumes less power or more power depending on the temperature of the incoming air and the level set in the thermostat. It adjusts the speed and power of the AC efficiently.

Stabilizer free operation

Few brands are offering inbuilt stabilizers with their ACs but it has a limited range of fluctuation which is 160v to 245v. If the voltage fluctuate below or above the range defined then It may harm your AC. With the stabilizer the range becomes 60v to 260v. depending on brand and type of stabilizers.

What are a few common features we expect from our ACs?

Less noise, Speed Setting, auto air swing, two way air flow direction, various Modes like Dry Mode, Cool Mode, Dehumidification, Automatic Operation Mode, Turbo Mode, Sleep Mode, etc.

A few convenience features like auto clean, jet cool, timer, self diagnosis, Inverter control, horizontal airflow direction Control, 24-Hour Dual ON & OFF Real Setting Timer, LCD wireless remote controller, auto restart, front panel display, dual protection filter, anti bacteria filter, active carbon filter and many more..

A few best brands being sold in India. (Voltas, Godrej and Daikin are made in India products)

Panasonic 1 Ton 5 Star Wi-Fi Inverter Split AC

Godrej 1.5 Ton 5 Star Inverter Split AC

Voltas 1.5 Ton 5 Star Inverter Split AC

Hitachi 1.5 Ton 5 Star Inverter Split AC

LG 1.5 Ton 5 Star Inverter Split AC

Daikin 1.5 Ton 5 Star Inverter Split AC

Covid-19 has changed our lives, can we prevent this in future?

COVID-19 or coronavirus which is also popular with its controversial name Chinese virus has changed everyone’s lives around the world. Almost every country is suffering from this virus’s effect. There are so many stories that this started from Wuhan’s lab or started from Bats, etc. but there is another story that was spread all over the world deliberately. And as per few reports shown on news channels it is also believed that it was well planned to monetize this moment.

But the question is why did they do it with everyone including their people?

The answer is they need more power in the world, more control over the countries, and they want to rule the world. Question is how dare they think about it? and the answer is very simple. They know our need and they know we don’t fulfill and we will be dependant on them. A big reason is that in our democracy everyone can stand against anything and they have a right to do so even if they are against good things though. China knows it very well that our politics will never let us rise and in the meantime they will achieve what they want to. But they don’t know that Indians never let others win.

Because of Coronavirus lives are devastated. Companies have started layoffs, small factories are not giving work to laborers, demand has drastically reduced for many items because of closed markets, new products are not being produced because of fewer workers or no workers available.

A small virus has affected our lives badly and china is seeing it and think about it if they do this again with some other virus. As per reports they have around 1500 more viruses. How do they survive and others are not? It just has arranged everything already before it started but we didn’t. We can stop this for the future by destroying their source of funding options. I know it’s very easy to say “Stop Using Chinese Products” but at least the Chinese products which are avoidable we can stop buying them. If we have already bought then no need to throw it out but just don’t buy it anymore and give preference to Indian products.

Many manufacturing units must be thinking of moving to other countries like India because of the cheap labor and there are many industrialists in India also who should think about planning something similar to boost the Indian economy. Every country grows because of its resources. In India we have labor, talent, technology, and good governance right now. India must think about it now or countries like china will come back and destroy us like anything and it will be because we might be helping them directly or indirectly now.

COVID -19 situation may go away in a month or two but can we say that it will never happen again. We really need to think about working together and helping each other.

Is work from home easy?

Covid-19 has made many professionals working from home but home is not a place to work. Offices are made in such a way to Work comfortably but homes are not. So Work From Home is not an easy term. There are many factor needs to be considered when you plan to work from home.

Many professionals or I would say mostly professionals work out of their home town to earn a good income or live in metro city or few also work out of town to stay away from home mostly youngsters. However, when you live in a rented apartment or rented house it is not built in such a way or doesn’t have amenities you get at home.

Computer Table

Computer Chair

Multipurpose Laptop Table

Laptop Stand

When you work from home so a normal computer table becomes your office desk but does it look like an office desk. Really not. You will find it topped up with so many other household items. Even when you are at home it won’t change. This is why mostly professionals use laptop so it doesn’t require a computer table and they can sit on couch, sofa, chair, bed or even on carpet and use it. But how comfortable it is to use it for 8 hours while working from home. It’s not. You need to find accessories to make it comfortable otherwise you can harm your back and shoulders. There are so many multipurpose laptop tables are available in the market that you can buy to make it work. Here are some best choices.

Multi-Purpose Laptop Table with Dock Stand/Study Table/Bed Table/Foldable

Height Adjustable Foldable Multi-Function Portable Laptop Table

Wooden Adjustable Foldable Multi-Function Portable Laptop Table/Study Table

Portable Laptop Table, Bed Table, Notebook Stand, Laptop Standing Desk

Opting for a nice and comfortable chair is really important when you are considering working from home. Sitting for 8 hours on an uncomfortable chair can raise many health issues like Back pain, fatigue, restlessness, etc. Be careful, while selecting a chair. You can review some good chairs online before you buy them. There are many famous brands available in the market that really care about comfort while sitting in the chair. Along with the sitting posture we also need to take care of the height of the laptop or computer screen. So an appropriate laptop stand or screen height is very important.

Laptop Stand, Invisible Lightweight Computer Stand, Portable Foldable Holder Fit for MacBook, Air,Pro,Ipad,Notebook and Tablet

Office Chair With Adjustable Lumber Back Support Suitable For All Purposes, For Long Day Siting

High Back Ergonomic Chair for Office & Home. Adjustable Arms, Adjustable Lumbar Support, Adjustable Headrest.

Table for Laptop Stand for Bed and Sofa, Desk Portable Adjustable Laptop Table Stand Up/Sitting with Mouse Pad

6 Best Selling ACs in India This Year
Buying ACs for home is really a tough job but we can help you choosing the best Air conditioner which is going to be energy efficient with full of features and also good for your pocket these days. […]
How to reduce your energy consumption?
Bringing down your monthly electricity bill of an average household of six people in India requires some simple calculation reading through this piece. A typical house requires air conditioning, […]
5 indoor plants to grow at home
We really love our kitchen gardens or terrace gardens but these days indoor gardens are very popular. Bill Wolverton an American scientist invented the air-purifying theory and tested few plants […]
Covid-19 has changed our lives, can we prevent this in future?
COVID-19 or coronavirus which is also popular with its controversial name Chinese virus has changed everyone’s lives around the world. Almost every country is suffering from this virus’s […]
5 Best Home Decor Ideas 2020
We say “Home Sweet Home” why? because home is where our heart is. Every woman loves to decorate their home with beautiful and creative ideas. So here we are giving you 5 of the […]