be very careful of Melaleuca alternifolia - narrow leafed paperbark or tea tree oil ... only ever use it in solution ... 5% works for foot fungus scabies and such like never use more than 1% for chest infections ... here you can get a solution that has been specially mixed with ethanol that will mix with water for washing floors etc ... it generally wont mix as a pure oil unless the water is quite hot ... it is so very strong a drop or two of pure oil will work it breaks up into very fine droplets for chest infections get a big basin ... fill it with steamy water ... add a drop or two of tea tree oil towel over the head breathe it in ... the oil is very fine and mixes in the steam and will kill a lung infection but not much good for the flu ... but be very careful too much and it will make you throw up .... and not much more is too much !
it is much better if you can make it the traditional way which is to soak the leaves in water for a week or so... make tea out of it but never drink it of course rather than use the distilled oil there are river pools and lakes that are surrounded by paperbark and the water is this wonderful shiny light brown colour [ its called tea tree for that reason] ... they are extraordinary to swim in ... as the oil in the water makes it amazing to glide through ... the oil sort of coats you and when get out the water/oil just beads off you no need for a towel and takes any grime or recently dead microbes with it ... your hair is all shiny and squeaky clean and again check any products with tea tree oil in it shampoos etc if they don't indicate the % strength or it is higher than 5% quite probably they don't really have actual tea tree in it but chemically created "flavour" or a created scent of tea tree never ingest it .... using too much in an aromatherapy burner thingy will make you dizzy actually don't even be tempted to try that even the 5% or less solutions test on a little of skin first to find out if you are too sensitive to it some people are I use it all the time for just about anything that need cleaning or killing [ die mould die ] stopped throat infections and bronchitis in their tracks .... Mugsy is right about the cats not so good for dogs either it vaporises very easily and lands on their fur which as you know they lick all the time and so they inquest it and well its for killing stuff all the above info is good for Eucalyptus oil as well except for the swimming the eucalyptus is much denser the most interesting thing is that they exist to vaporise in the heat and make sure the bushfires burn at a high enough temp to open the seed cases .... they also keep the ground around the trees free of other plants On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Mugsy Lunsford <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Mugsy Lunsford wrote: > > > >> > >> On Aug 16, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > > Well, It's dense, the paper's title is "Triclosan impairs > excitation–contraction coupling and Ca2+ dynamics in striated muscle". > > > > <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/triclosan_impairsmuscle_activity.pdf> > > > > Thanks. > > >> Recently started making my own cleaning products, after realizing that > the fresh lemonade/limeade booth at the market throws away a 5 gallon > bucket worth of rinds every week. Fill big glass jars with rinds, pour > white vinegar in up to the brim, cover, shake, let sit 2 weeks, decant. > High acid content, strong citrus scent, can be used diluted for almost > anything. > > > > Substitute vodka for vinegar you also get a useful product. :-) > > That'll be my winter project :D > > >> > >> If you wipe surfaces down with vinegar, and then lightly mist over that > with hydrogen peroxide, it's a more effective anti-bacterial than chlorine, > without the toxicity. > > > > Well, any bacteria that isn't killed by the mere presence of air is > largely unaffected by hydrogen peroxide, absent long soaking it the stuff. > H202 is an intracellular byproduct of aerobic metabolism. If aerobic > organisms didn't have hydrogen peroxidase in their cells they'd dissolve > from the inside out. It's why it foams up when you put it on cuts. > > > > H2O2 IS an effective bleaching agent, good on stains, but less > antiseptic than usually thought. > > The argument I read was that the layered application of the two had a much > greater effect than either singly or both mixed together. Since Teatree oil > is also antibacterial, some folks put that in white vinegar, but it's fatal > for cats, so I'm looking for other options. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
