Living a Natural & Healthy Lifestyle
Do you struggle with finding natural, healthy, and pure ways to live a modern lifestyle? We get it. The world is full of plastics, synthetics, and other harmful chemicals that creep their way into the home. It's not easy finding natural products that promote a healthy lifestyle for you and your loved ones; let alone, products that are also good for the environment. And when you find such products they can cost a premium. The good news is that cork is a natural material that promotes a healthier lifestyle and a better planet! This makes cork the answer for your natural and healthy home flooring!
Cork Is the Natural Flooring Alternative
Cork is nature's alternative to plastics. So why not ditch all the plastics and synthetics, and choose nature’s recommended flooring option? Cork is the smart choice for natural and healthy home flooring. Cork floors allow you to feel good about what you bring into your home, where you and those you love spend every day.
Why Cork Flooring is Healthy for People
Cork's unique cellular structure is composed mostly of air. As a result, the comfort of walking on cork flooring is like walking on air (literally). And as a natural insulator, cork is also warm to the touch. Whether walking barefoot or practicing yoga, this makes cork a most enjoyable surface to experience.
In addition, cork flooring is hypoallergenic, anti-microbial, and anti-fungal. As a result, cork floors are nature's best choice for anyone who is sensitive or allergic to mold and mildew. This is due to a naturally occurring Suberin, sappy substance that protects cork trees protects against mold, mildew and insects. This same Suberin is also present in cork flooring.
Why Cork Flooring is Good for the Environment
Cork has the best sustainability story of any flooring material, period.
Cork is a 100% rapidly-renewable resource, made from the BARK of the cork oak - not from the tree itself. This means that trees are never cut down, and can live to be over 200 years old! In fact, the oldest cork tree in the world is currently over 240 years old! Atlas Obscura explains that this cork tree, planted in 1783, is called "The Whistler Tree” because of sounds of the songbirds that shelter in its branches!
In addition, after its bark is harvested cork the trees absorb up to five times as much CO2 as normal while the bark is regenerating over a period of nine years. So the production of cork flooring actually helps the environment in the terms of carbon sink. All the while, cork forests serve as a natural habitat for a variety of species that that nest and shelter in their shade.
Cork is the solution you can feel great about as your natural and healthy home flooring!
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