5 Important Benefits of Tea Tree Essential Oil
Tea tree is an ancient essential oil that has a ton of incredible uses. Whether used in a nebulizing diffuser in aromatherapy or applied topically, tea tree essential oil is one oil that should have a space in everyone’s essential oil carrier or cabinet. One of the most impressive features of tea tree essential oil, and one of the reasons why it’s such a must-have, is that it provides just as many benefits to the home as it does the body.
Tea Tree Essential Oil Benefits for the Body
Treats Acne
Acne treatment is probably one of the most well-known and celebrated benefits of tea tree essential oil. Even mainstream acne cleansers and products use the power of tea tree essential oil, and for good reason – it really works. One study even found tea tree essential oil to be just as effective as benzoyl peroxide in the treatment of stubborn acne breakouts, but without all of the harsh side effects that often come along with it. The natural antibacterial and antiseptic properties of tea tree, combined with skin soothing benefits, can clear acne breakouts while leaving the skin in better shape than ever before. Tea tree essential oil can be used in your daily acne cleanser, or mixed with other ingredients to create a weekly or bi-weekly effective acne mask.
Effective Homemade Deodorant
Body odor isn’t the scent of sweat, it’s actually the scent of bacterial byproducts on the surface of the skin brought out by sweat. By taking away that bacteria, you take away the smell, and that’s just what tea tree essential oil can do. Crossing tea tree essential oil with baking soda and coconut oil provides you with an all-natural deodorant that really works without all of the harsh chemicals. This combination won’t clog pores as easily as traditional deodorants, but it will keep you smelling just as fresh.
Cold and Flu Relief
When you’re struck down with a cold or flu bug, it’s the symptoms that keep you down and out feeling lousy. The chest congestion, the headache, the sinus inflammation and congestion – none of it is very fun. Tea tree essential oil can help not only to purify the air and stop the spread of illness, but it acts as an expectorant to help you to feel better when you’re sick. By breaking up and loosening congestion, your body will be better able to expel it from our system.
Home Cleanser
The same antimicrobial properties that make tea tree essential oil so effective at combating acne also make it an excellent choice in natural home cleaning. Simply combining tea tree essential oil with water, vinegar, and lemon essential oil can give you an inexpensive and effective home cleaning solvent to work on any surface in any room of the home. The antimicrobial properties work to take care of bacteria and those bad bugs that could be lurking unseen on surfaces, leaving you with a clean you can be confident in.
Air Purifying
The air in our homes probably isn’t as clean as we think it is or as we’d like it to be. We spend the majority of our time indoors, and the majority of that time in our homes, breathing in air that could be ripe with bacterial, fungi, and pollutants we’d rather not be breathing in. Tea tree essential oil helps to cleanse and to purify the air, eliminating microbes, fungi, and bacteria before you’re able to breathe it in to your respiratory system. The most effective method to purify the air is with a nebulizing diffuser.
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I just need you guys to know that tea tree oil is toxic to dog. When being used in a diffuser it can then harm a dog (and maybe other animals not sure) if they inhale to much it can harm their liver. So lock your room doors and keep them out while you’re using this for colds or flus over night.
Tea Tree Oil is the best. It can be used in the nebulizing diffuser to cleanse your house when someone in your family gets ill so the rest of the family does not sick!
I use a drop in my shampoo to help with scalp health
Tea Tree oil is also good to add to shampoo or conditioner to keep lice away. A little trick I learnt from my sister-in-law from Australia.
For me, it is one of the most important and most universal oils. You can use it on skin undiluted to cure acne, you can add it to DIY face cream to keep it fresh for a long time, you can use it when having flu or cold. An amazing thing to have and very versatile.
I love to use tea tree oil.
Great oil!
I need to give tea tree oil a try, seems to work great for just about everything
I didn’t know about Tea tree oil being good for a cold and flu.
I love tea tree it has so many uses and it smells great
Feels good on the skin
Had a 95 year old client introduce me to tea tree oil 15 years ago!
I love tea tree oil i put it on my toothpaste
Right on time…I’ve been down with the cold all weekend…
Amazing product
I’m excited to try diffusing tea tree oil in a nebulizing diffuser! Thank you for the great information!
Really is an all round asset to health – never tried as a deodorant – certainly helps reduce acne
I am definitely gonna try out the Tea Tree Oil for my duffuser when my little ones are sick!
I didn’t know about the acne; have to tell my older son about that.
I did not know it was so good at treating acne
Thankyou for the info! It was really helpful <3
I never knew about these things. Thanks for the information.
I use tea tree oil in many different things from a homemade paste for brushing my dogs teeth to an antibacterial ingredient in a foot soak. Tea tree oil is a necessary staple in every DIY herbalists collection.
I think that it is cool that you can make deodorant.
I learned that you can make a home cleaner with this.
Wow! The only uses for Tea Tree Oil I knew about were for a home cleanser and also that it repels headlice. I didn’t know it could cleanse the air and help congestion! Interesting read.
Interesting article!
I love Tea tree Oil. The uses are many and the benefits are great. I live diffusing it along with lemon, peppermint, eucalyptus and oragano oils to help keep the flu and cold germs away in the winter season.
I attend essential oil and aromatherapy classes and webinars and I always love reading the information that is put out on your blogs it’s so informative and knowledge based
I’ve been using Meleluca or tea tree oil for over 30 years- basically, my whole life. My mother was a big fan and today I use it in my children.
I will try the natural deodorant aspect & let you know how it works for me.
Oh I wish I had known this a few weeks ago when me and my daughter were full of cold!!!
Tea tree oil works great as deodorant and boot spray !
I didn’t know a diffuser was beneficial for colds and the flu!
Good to know! More knowledge about essential oil. Thank you for the useful info. 😊💕
I use it in my humidifier.
Tea tree Oil is in many products I use around the house everyday , hand soaps , hair care, cleaners… yet I was not aware it was helpful for colds & flu. I appreciate the information as I learn about #organicaromas #essentialoil #aromatherapy.
Tea Tree is so versatile. I use it in my DIY deodorants, it is in a blend for cuts and scrapes. I diffuse it when I have a cold. The list goes on and on.
Your aroma diffusers are very unique!
Nice.. it is great to cleanse the air inside the house..
Nice.. it is great to cleanse the air inside the house..
Thank you for the info!
It’s good treatment for nail fungus also.
Tea Tree is a staple oil for my collection! It’s such a versatile essential oil!
Have never tired it
I struggle with the scent of tea tree, but it’s so useful in my laundry with musty smelling towels!
Great Article!I love tea tree oils!
Wow! I never thought of using tea tree oil before. I will be adding it to my essential oil wish list. Thank you for the information 🙂
I love the smell of tea tree but most people aren’t too fond of it. I also use a tea tree facial cleanser instead of shaving cream.
Great informative post and I had no idea about armpit smell being bacteria.
Thanks for the chance.
I love tea tree oil my daughter uses it for her acne and I use it in my shampoo it helps with my psoriasis in my scalp.