Tea Tree Essential Oil
Botanical name: Melaleuca alternifolia
Plant part: Leaves
Cultivation: Organic
Extraction: Steam distillation
Product description:Also known as Melaleuca oil (which can be quite confusing as Cajeput and Niaouli EOs are also both Melaleuca) it is well known as a virtual "cure all", due to its powerful antiseptic properties and ability to treat wounds.
Mainly derived from Melaleuca alternifolia, a small tree native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, where it was used as a traditional medicine for centuries among the Aborigines who crushed its leaves to extract the oil and inhaled to treat coughs and colds or applied directly to the skin for healing. Its ability to kill many strains of bacteria, fungi and viruses has been well researched and documented over the last 70 years.
Aromatherapy:
- Helps soothe mental instability
- Promotes calm and self-sufficiency
- Helps eliminate negative aggression
- Helps treat mood swings, panic attacks, manic episodes, anxiety, and depression
- Stimulates memory perceptions and cognitive thinking processes
Healing
- Antibacterial properties make it helpful in treating bacterial infections (e.g. Tuberculosis), both internal (of the colon, stomach, intestines, excretory and urinary system) and external (wounds, cuts, blackheads etc.)
- Helps promote the absorption of nutrients and provides protection from diseases
- Antimicrobial properties make it highly effective in killing and repelling microbes responsible for severe tropical fevers and malaria
- Anti-viral properties help cure viral infections like the common cold, influenza, mumps, measles and pox.
- Expectorant properties help provide relief from coughs, colds, congestion, bronchitis and other respiratory issues.
- Stimulant properties help boost immunity due to its effect on hormone secretions and blood circulation
- Anti-inflammatory properties help provide relief from muscular pain, aches and sprains as well as encouraging blood flow to specific areas to help speed up the healing process and increase tissue and cellular growth rate.
- Sudorific properties help promote the removal of excess water, salts and toxins like Uric Acid from the body through sweating while cleansing the pores
Skincare:
- Antioxidant properties help significantly improve the appearance of blemishes, age spots, and scars
- Anti-aging properties help reduce the appearance of wrinkles leaving skin smoother
- Excellent oily skin treatment
- Antiseptic properties make it beneficial in treating ingrown hairs, skin tags, wounds, boils, sores, cuts, eruptions, insect bites etc. and preventing them become infectious.
- Helps treat acne, psoriasis, eczema and fungal infections e.g. dermatitis and athlete’s foot
Hair care:
- Helps increase blood flow to the scalp which helps strengthen and maintain healthy follicles
- Helps prevent hair loss/thinning
- Helps reduce dry scalp and dandruff
Meditation:
- Purifying
- Cleansing
Product color: Clear with a slight yellow tinge
Aroma profile: Pungent, pure, strong, camphoraceous, balsamic, bittersweet
Perfumery note: Middle/Top
Consistency: Thin
Blends well with:
Essential Oils of Cinnamon, Clary sage, Clove, Geranium, Lavender, Lemon, Myrrh, Nutmeg, Rosewood, Rosemary and Thyme.
Although there are no inherent risks of topically applying tea tree oil, in some rare cases, people may be overly sensitive to the oil, as a form of a minor allergenic. It should never be ingested and always kept away from pets and children.