Tea Tree Oil Benefits

Tea Tree Oil (melaleuca alternifolia) is produce from distillation process from the leaves of the tea tree (melaleuca alternifolia). The native tree from a small region of northern New South Wales on the east coast of Australia.

Tea tree oil contains of 2.5 % Cineole and 41.7% terpinen-4-ol. This oil is a uniquely defined combination of monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes and terpene alcohol’s with outstanding therapeutic properties.

Tea tree oil can be used as immune system booster and a preventative against many types of infections. Beside that tea tree oil has been proven to be powerful yet natural antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal medicine. It is very effective against nail fungus, ringworm, athlete’s foot, dandruff, acne, blackheads and many types of infestations including lice, mites, scabies and mosquitoes, etc. Tea tree oil is not just soothing and disinfecting, it is capable of penetrating into the lower skin layers with its anti-inflammatory, disinfectant, analgesic (pain-killing) and cicatrizant (wound-healing) qualities.

Tea tree oil is effective against gram positive bacteria (staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidemidis and others) and gram negative like Escherichia coli, klebsiella pneumoniac, citrobactor sp, Shigell sonnei, proteus mirabilis. This is also effective against fungi like: trichophyton mentagrophytes, trichophyton rubrum, aspergillus niger, aspergilus flavus, candida albicans, microsporum canis, microsporum gypseum, thermoactinomycetes vulgaris.