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[westbrook]

http://www.ausimports.com/teatree.htm

Some of the uses for Tea Tree Oil include....

1) Minor Cuts, Abrasions and Grazes. Dab on pure oil or diluted rinse to irrigate the wound area.

2) Dry Skin Rashes: Mix the oil with Baby Oil to create a moisturizing lotion and apply to the skin.

3) Insect Bites and Stings. Rub a dab of pure oil onto mosquito, sand flies, noseeum and other insect bites and stings to help relieve the itch and pain.

4) Minor Burns including sunburn. The oil can be rubbed into the affected site.

5) Facial Cleanser. Add 6 drops to some warm water and flush over the face.

6) Pimples, Zits and Spots. Dab on the pure oil three times a day or use with warm water as a hot pack and rinse.

7) Hair Care. Mix several drops with your shampoo to help relieve itchy scalp, dandruff or to treat nits.

8) Foot Treatments. Either by direct application of the oil or by means of a foot soak by adding a capful of oil to warm water to treat sore feet, foot odor, athletes foot or nail infections.

[westbrook]

for those that can't find tea tree oil... try wal-mart or your local health food store.

[Lois]

Thank you for this info. Sounds like something I need in my med cabinet.

[Nett]

I am definately adding this to my homemed notebook. Yes you have done a great service with this. THANK YOU!

[westbrook]

do more research! don't just take this one site as truth. They have so much information missing. I posted it as a guide to use in a search engine to get the information you need.

[furbabymom]

Originally Posted By: westbrook

for those that can't find tea tree oil... try wal-mart or your local health food store.

Trader Joe's sells it too, for those who have that store in their area.

[furbabymom]

Originally Posted By: MommyofSeven

There are directions here http://www.wildroots.com/salves.htm for doing a salve from infused oils. For essential oils, you will only want to use a few drops of oil per ounce of salve. Tea tree you can be a bit more generous with, though, as well as lavender.

Mo7

Thanks for the info - I'll try making some!

[Mt_Rider]

Wow, that's gonna fill a notebook! I knew the stuff was versatile but WHOA.... Too bad Aussie trees won't grow in the Rockies.

Thanks for the big picture, Westie.


MtRider

[Mt_Rider]

[westbrook]

I still think that there is more to it then what I found. that is only a basic snippet of info.

if you go to the site it will tell you that many of the recipes for TTO are interchangable with grapefruit seed extract. but you have to check. I will stick with TTO..

also a little tidbit... listerine mouth wash is not as strong as TTO but does the same thing as does vinegar!

[Mother]

Westy, you are just amazing.

Now if I could just GROW it here. I'd be happy. Guess I'll stock up some more.

[westbrook]

to process it would take far more equipment then I have or have room for it I could afford it.

as long as it is kept in a cool dark place it will last a long time.

I like TTO, I use it in my mop water, to wipe off counter tops and in my laundry when I had the boys at home.

[Nett]

Originally Posted By: westbrook

for those that can't find tea tree oil... try wal-mart or your local health food store.

You can ususally purchase it through your local pharmacy as well.

[8thsinner]

BRILLIANT THREAD BTW

Another note about the stuff, I have here a 50ml bottle of australian tea tree oil, Bought nearly two years ago, it is only about half full now, the old saying a little goes a long way can definatly be applied to this stuff.

[SueC]

One of the best Aussie brands is "Thursday Plantation" - their range of tea tree oil products is excellent.

[westbrook]

^^^^^^ yes!!! Thursday's Plantation!!! love their tea tree lotion!!

[Hippie Dad]

Westbrook/"Westy"--I'd like to put my own two cents in on the subject of tea tree oil. Hope this particular aspect of the use hasn't already been done to death somewhere in the discussion threads.

My wife Leah (you know her from these forums) turned me on to tea tree oil about six months ago, and it has worked miracles for my skin. We live up near the Canadian border where the winters are fairly mild, but quite long-(It is snowing as I write this on March 30) and my face would peel like the wallpaper in an abandoned house, because of exposure to the cold.

Then Leah let me try some tea tree oil, and now I use it every day, while she only uses it in emergencies. I rub my face down with water, then moisten my fingertips with the concentrated oil and rub it everywhere. I think it even helps with crows-feet and bags under the eyes, it makes the skin quite supple. I feel years younger.

I presume a tea tree is some kind of plant that a person could grow. Don't know how one would get the oil out though.

By the way, "Westy", I have read your posts often as I lurked here, and have always been entertained and informed by them.
Good work.

Peace and Love--

and some virtual chocolate truffles

[Ambergris]

Tea tree oil is from a myrtle-like tree in the melaleuca family. This is closely related to the melaleuca that is taking over the everglades, but as far as I know the weed-melaleuca is not the same one they get the oil from.

[Leah]

seeds -
http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/SeedlistLA-LE.htm
Leptospermum scoparium v. scoparium. (a!,v) LEPT-40S. Packet: $2.00
'MANUKA', 'NEW ZEALAND TEA-TREE'. White 1/2" wide five-petaled flowers abundantly produced in spring and summer. Compact shrub to 3 - 12 feet. with needle-like 1/2" leaves. SE Australia to New Zealand. Easily grown and one of the hardiest. A tea of the aromatic leaves was drunk by Captain Cook to prevent scurvy, and is medicinal.
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http://www.ehow.com/how_15197_grow-australian-tea.html
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http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/f-w98/teatrees.html
Therapeutic properties of Australian tea tree oil
(Also assuring that you have the proper plant)
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[Leah]

http://www.uspharmacist.com/oldformat.asp?...es/Alte/tea.cfm
A member of the family Myrtaceae, the tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) is one of over 150 species of Melaleuca, which is indigenous to Australia. The tea tree grows in swampy, low-lying areas on the northern coast of New South Wales, where the leaves of the tree have been used by aborigines for centuries as a local antiseptic. Later settlers began to use the leaves to treat a variety of skin disorders such as cuts, burns, insect bites, and athlete�s foot. The leaves are the medicinally useful part of the plant and contain a volatile essential oil known as tea tree oil. Less commonly, tea tree oil is extracted from M. linariifolia and M. dissitiflora.
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Cultivated from seed, tea tree leaves can be harvested from a plant in about 12?8 months.