Tea Leaf Oil

Tea leaf oil is produced by extraction of tea leaf. The extraction itself use a steam to heat tea leaf, the oil will float on the water and separated by usual normal separation, by take an advantage of gravitation effect. Tea leaf oil or melaleuca oil is a clear to very pale goldeng hydrophobic oil with a fresh camphoraceous odor.

Tea leaf oil have a beneficial properties like can use as antiseptic, antifungal and antibacterial action. Beside of medical uses tea leaf oil also believed to have beneficial of cosmetic properties. Tea leaf oil is differing with tea seed oil because of the different contains of both. Tree leaf oil has strong activity against Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA. Tea leaf oil also called as tea tree oil.

The chemical contain on tea tree oil are as follows:

• Terpinen-4-ol: 30 – 48 %
• y-terpinene: 10 – 28 %
• α-terpinene: 5 – 13 %
• 1,8-Ceneole: 0 – 15 %
• α-pinene: 1 – 6 %
• p-cymene: 0.5 – 8 %

Medicinal Uses:
Tea tree oil has been recognized as a potent antiseptic in Australia anecdotally for much longer than there has been scientific evidence. Currently studies report that tea tree oil can use as skin car and treatment of various ailments.

•  Tea tree oil use as antibacterial of staphylococcus aureus by used of 10% concentration.
•  Use as antifungal agent, effective in vitro against multiple dermatophytes found on the skin. In vivo, shampoo with 5 % tea tree oil has been shown to be an effective treatment for antidandruff.
• In treatment of moderate acne, topical application of 5% tea tree oil has shown an effect comparable to 5% benzoyl peroxide, albeit with slower onset of action.
• Some limited research shown that tea tree oil have topical anti-viral activity, especially with the herpes viral (cold sore, chicken pox and shingles blisters).