Dust is one of those things in life that confounds us a bit, doesn’t it? Think about it. You clean. You dust. A day later, you look, and lo and behold, dust! Where did it come from? You cleaned everything!

It’s as though the world “sheds.” And in fact, it does! All the time. Even you shed. Every two to four weeks, you shed the entire outer layer of your skin. That’s 8 lbs per year!* But in fact, skin is only a small percentage of the dust we find settling on our furniture and floors or hanging in our air. House dust alone is made up of a combination of skin, dander, sand particles, kleenex fibers, insect waste, dirt tracked in from shoes containing any amounts of organic matter or chemicals, carpet fibers, hair, textile fibers, clothing fibers, wood ash or soot, paper fibers, atmospheric …