When and how to use tea tree oil??

Question

So yeah, when and how are you suppose to use it?

and does this stuff really work?

Answer 1

The plant material is placed into a still (very similar to a pressure cooker) where pressurized steam passes through the plant material.

The heat from the steam causes globules of oil in the plant to burst and the oil then evaporates. The essential oil vapor and the steam then pass out the top of the still into a water cooled pipe where the vapors are condensed back to liquids. At this point, the essential oil separates from the water and floats to the top.

I use to have a plant myself and when I wanted to wash my floors I would put the leaves in a strainer over a bucket and slowly poor hot water through, the smell is not real strong like the oil in bottles you buy, but its still smells allot and I loved it.....good luck

Answer 2

Absolutely gets rid of fleas inside! Dab with cotton ball around house in corners, on floors away from traffic. Don't know how, but it works!!!

Answer 3

It really does work.

You can use it for anything.  It's a powerful antifungal, antiviral, and antibiotic.  Dab a little on cuts or scrapes.  (Neosporin or other petroleum-based antibiotic ointments only sit on the surface of the skin forming a protective barrier; tea tree oil actually penetrates the skin and goes deeper to heal beyond the surface.)  If you have a sore throat, you can put a few drops in a glass of warm water and gargle with it; this will soothe your throat and also help kill the germs.

My personal favorite use-- WARTS.  It gets rid of warts.  I had many stubborn warts.  Store-bought wart remedies (like the drops that are 20% salicylic acid) never worked; they dripped off the wart and basically just ate off my skin.  If they did get the wart, it'd always come back.  But tea tree oil WORKED.  Because salicylic acid treatments work by burning off the wart (or any tissue you get the acid on); tea tree oil works by actually killing the virus.  To cure a wart, just take a tiny piece of toilet paper (just big enough to cover the wart) and put a few drops of tea tree oil on it.  Then put that on the wart and put a bandaid over it to keep it in place.  Leave it at least 12 hours, or longer, but if your skin gets irritated, take it off.  After that, just dab a bit of tea tree oil on it once or twice a day, whenever you think about it.  My wart was almost completely gone in a week.

Sorry if I sounded like an infomercial here...  =/  I'm not meaning to act like "this is a miracle drug and will cure everything even aging!"; it's not.  But it really is a good thing.

(Oh yeah, and you might want to ask this in the medicine section.  You might get more answers there than in the gardening section.)