Skin Miracle - The 7 Benefits of Tea Tree Oil

Tea tree oil has become a popular natural ingredient in all kinds of shampoos, face soaps and ointments because of its amazing healing powers.

This skin miracle comes from Australia, where over 300 species of tea trees naturally grow.

Aboriginal tribes in Australia have known of the tea tree's healing qualities for thousands of years.

Australian aboriginals have known the secret to healthy glowing skin for centuries. They used tea tree oil to soothe skin and to heal cuts, and now you can use tea tree oil too!

They boiled the leaves of the tea tree to make tea and antiseptic poultices that treated cuts, wounds, and skin infections.

One legend even describes a magical lagoon where native people bathed to heal their burns, cuts, and skin disorders. Tea trees surrounded the pool, and the fallen leaves created a natural healing bath.

But you don't have to travel all the way to Australia to get the benefits of the tea tree.

It's widely available now as an essential oil, and it treats a variety of conditions!

Tea Tree: Skin Treatment

Tea tree has so many anti-viral and anti-fungal benefits that the Australian army puts it in soldiers' first aid kits. Now, you can use tea tree oil in a variety of ways, especially to heal your skin.

Tea tree oil can benefit the following skin conditions:¹

• Ring worm and athlete's foot
• Softens corns
• Cuts and scrapes
• Itching of insect bites and chicken pox
• Warts
• Acne
• Dandruff

In fact, tea tree oil may be a better alternative to conventional skin treatments.

Tea tree oil is an excellent treatment for acne. One study found tea tree oil to be just as effective as benzoyl peroxide, but without the negative side effects like redness and peeling.² Tea tree oil can also treat minor wounds, encourage healing, and prevent infection, so you may want to add this versatile oil to your own first aid kit!

Besides improving your skin, tea tree oil has all kinds of other health properties, including:⁴

• May help reduce fevers and end headaches
• Pain reliever
• Treats lice
• Can help lower blood pressure
• Helpful for infections including vaginitis, sinusitis, cystitis
• Anti-viral and anti-candida

Tea tree oil from Tangasseri Ayurveda is 100% pure and should be a part of your natural skin care regimen. Use this versatile oil to help with acne, skin problems and fungal infections... and keep a bottle in your first aid kit too!

Tea tree essential oil is a potent healer, especially 100% pure tea tree oil like that from Tangasseri Ayurveda  Essential Oils. Keep in mind that many essential oils on the market (even those sold in health food stores) have potentially toxic extenders. (Labeling laws allow manufacturers to use up to 50% chemical extenders and still say they are 100% pure.)

Dana Young, founder of Tangasseri Ayurveda  Essential Oils, suggests that you can use tea tree oil in the following ways:

• Directly on your skin in the area affected. For cuts and sores, add 1-2 drops to targeted areas.
• Mixed with a carrier oil. Mix 3 - 5 drops with a carrier oil and apply to skin after a bath or shower. You can make your own Body Ecology friendly carrier oil by using a lightly scented oil like almond oil that is unrefined and organic.
• A household cleaner. Add to water and vinegar for a non-toxic household cleaner.
• Treatment for lice and dandruff. Rinse your hair with warm water and 2 drops of tea tree oil to control lice and dandruff.
• Healing bath. Add 6 drops to your bath water for a soothing soak.
• Diffused. Using an essential oil diffuser, tea tree oil may be diffused into the air, creating a medicinal antiseptic.

Is Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment Effective?

Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment:  What Does it Treat?

The simple answer to that question is acne; the not so simple answer is all the stuff that falls under the umbrella of acne.

• Scaly, red skin/rosacea (Seborrhea)
• Blackheads and whiteheads (Comedones)
• Pinheads (Papules)
• Pimples (Pustules)
• Larger papules (Nodules)
• Possible Scarring

Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment:  What causes acne?

Tea Tree Oil Treatment for acne will aid in stopping the causes of acne.  Hair follicles in the skin are nodes where hairs grow and sebum (oil) is secreted by thesebaceous glands.  When dead skin cells and dirt enter the openings of these pores and combine with copious amounts of sebum due to:

• Hormonal Surges
• Poor Hygiene
• Genetic Factors
• Bad Diet

The resultant hardening of detritus and clogged pores can lead to the blemishes and lesions mentioned above.

Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment:  How Does It Work?

• Good Hygiene
• Balanced Diet
• Topical Skin Creams
• Benzoyl Peroxide Creams
• Oral and Topical Retinoids
• Topical and Oral Antibiotics
• Dermabrasion
• Phototherapy
• Surgery (in extremis)

All these treatments have been shown to have some positive effect on moderate to severe acne.  So which one of the above remedies does Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment simulate? Or does it act in an entirely different way?  The answer is the one, or ones, that produce and anti-inflammatory, and anti-microbial response.

 

1. Good Hygiene – Soap and Water are the best prevention against skin conditions.  A daily routine of light scrubbing with a moisturizing soap will do wonders for the skin.  Take care not to use a soap that will irritate your skin.
2. Balanced Diet – Eating the right foods and avoiding the wrong ones can go a long way toward preventing acne.  Avoid Dairy and High Glycemic foods.
3. Topical Skin Creams – Many of these creams actually contain 5% Tea Tree Oil in the product.  It is good for moisturizing the skin and having an anti-inflammatory response on the blemishes.
4. Retinoids – These oral or topical treatments are similar to Vitamin A, and as a result discourage the growth of Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes), and other acne causing bacteria.  They also, like Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment, reduce inflammation and microbial (bacterial) growth.
5. Benzoyl Peroxide Cream – This is perhaps the treatment that is most similar to Tea Tree Oil and its properties. It has the anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial benefits mentioned above, and with about the same 5% concentration. Although with more severe cases, Benzoyl Peroxide concentration can be increased to 10%.

Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment:  Why Use It If It’s So Similar To Other Acne Treatments?

There are two reasons to use Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment:

• Reduced Tea Tree Oil Side Effects
• Cost Effective

Reduced Side Effects

• Less Skin Irritation
• Reduced Redness
• Not As Many Rash Outbreaks
• Reduced Soreness
• Reduction in Blemishes and Lesions

Cost Effective

• Amount per Use is Lower
• More Cost Effective Due to per Use Ratio

If there is one drawback to Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment, it’s that the results that you see will take longer to achieve.  This seems like a minor thing though compared to the added benefit of reduced side effects with this treatment.

 

Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment:  The Final Verdict

As always consult your physician before starting any new medical regiment, but I say try Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment.  The benefits outweigh the little downside, and when it comes to looking and feeling better about yourself, you can’t put a price on that.

Little Mary sure felt better after she used it.  You can to, so make up your mind to check out, and use TeaTree Oil Acne Treatment.

Why is Tea Tree Oil good for treating acne?

a. It acts as a diuretic

b. It reduces High Blood Sugar

c. It acts as an Anti-Inflammatory

d. It acts like a love potion

True or False: You DON’T need to consult with your physician before starting use of Tea Tree Oil.

a. True

b. False

What are TWO reasons to use Tea Tree Oil over other topical creams to treat acne?

a. Cost and Reduced side effects

b. Cost and Quicker results

c. Quicker Results and Oily skin

d. Oily skin and Quicker results

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Tea Tree Oil for Acne

Acne is a big problem .... here is the solution ...

 

 

How To Use Tea Tree Oil for Acne

Tea tree oil is hands down the most effective natural remedy I've ever tried for acne. It's even effective against cystic acne, those underground monster zits that hurt so bad. As someone who used to suffer from pretty terrible acne, I know how frustrating it can be to try lots of different treatments only to find that the acne comes right back after a couple weeks. I found this to be true both with conventional and natural therapies.

However, this did not occur when I started using essential oils for skin care. And since I'm obviously always in favor of using natural remedies in place of the harsh chemical stuff, that was super exciting for me.

Methods I've Used

Here are a few different ways you can use tea tree oil to fight breakouts:

1. Use a cotton swab to apply a drop directly to blemishes.
2. Mix a few drops (2-6 or so depending on the severity of the situation!) with your regular moisturizer. Avoid your eyes!
3. Add a few drops to your regular cleanser. Again, be careful not to get it in your eyes!
4. Mix 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of sesame or olive oil, 1 tablespoon of honey and 10-ish drops of tea tree oil for a acne-fighting scrub. This is good for run of the mill breakouts, but could be a little too harsh for cystic acne. Tea tree oil and honey are even  natural preservatives so you can keep this in a jar right in your medicine cabinet.
5. For acne on your body, you can add tea tree oil to your bath.
6. Add 5 drops of tea tree oil to 1/4 cup of plain yogurt and apply as a mask. Rinse with cool water after 15-20 minutes. This is my fave! <3

How Tea Tree Oil Works

Tea tree oil (also called Melaleuca oil) has powerful antibacterial (and even antifungal and antiviral!) properties and is effective against MRSA, which is a strain of bacteria that has developed resistance to some man-made antibiotics. So it's a natural product that can fight the spread of yucky sick germs. Its properties also make it useful in fighting acne. My skin is really fussy, but tea tree oil never fails to whip it into shape when I break out.

What Brand of Tea Tree Oil Should I Use?

There are many brands - but the problem of manufacturers using RCO- Re constituted oil, Using synthetic oil and or chemicals remains - Tangasseri Ayurveda products are made in a 104 year old factory, using ancient processes- Tangasseri Ayurveda commits to non use of adulteratives and chemicals in their products- they have a shop on ebay.in (sandalwoodtangasseri) where the sell direct from factory and that too at the lowest price in the market.  


 

Tea Tree Oil Benefits

Uses of Tea Tree Oil

 

An effective insect repellent- just spray a little bit on the clothes (concentrate oil not on the skin).

Use a dab to treat acne.

 An anti-fungal for treating Athlete’s Foot, eczema, various yeast infections, etc.

 An antiseptic to be used on cuts and burns.

 An anti-viral: it may lessen the symptoms of colds and flu.

 Add to a vaporizer to loosen chest congestion.

 Add a small amount to shampoo to destroy head lice.

 A small amount added to your bath can help with persistent body odor.

 Treating sinus infection.

 For dandruff and dry scalp.

Treat colds, persistent coughs, acne, and toothache.

 Be sure to take some with you when hiking and camping to put directly on insect bites or blisters.

                   Read More – 25 great uses.

http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2013/04/25-uses-for-tea-tree-oil.html

There are many brands - but the problem of manufacturers using RCO- Re constituted oil, Using synthetic oil and or chemicals remains - Tangasseri Ayurveda products are made in a 104 year old factory, using ancient processes- Tangasseri Ayurveda commits to non use of adulteratives and chemicals in their products- they have a shop on ebay.in (sandalwoodtangasseri) where the sell direct from factory and that too at the lowest price in the market.