Essential oil — volatile with well shown aroma and taste. It is formed only in plants and is allocated with great pharmacological properties. However, the range of use of these substances is quite wide — from treatment of cold to an aromatherapy. We will also tell about one of such oils.
Tea tree oil is extracted from its leaves processed with use of water vapor. Raw materials are previously crushed and loaded into special vessels in which under pressure steam moves. When it passes through leaves, molecules of water collect on themselves molecules of the oily substance which is contained in vegetable fabric.
This steam gets to other vessel. Then it is cooled. And as oil is not dissolved in water, it is easy to divide them by distillation. One ton of leaves after processing gives about ten liters of a radio product.
Whether you know? Melaleuka, or as to us he is more familiar, a tea tree, received the second name thanks to the famous seafarer James Cook. When the traveler visited Australia, he saw that natives drink the fragrant drink very similar to tea. It also christened a tree from which broke leaves for tincture, tea.
The composition of tea tree oil, according to ISO 4730 (2004), includes such substances:
- terpinen-4-ol 30–48%;
- γ-терпинен 10–28%;
- α-терпинен 5–13%;
- cineole of 0-15%;
- 1.5-5% α-terpinolene;
- 1.5-8% α-terpineol;
- 1-6% α-pinene;
- p-tsimol of 0.5-8%.
In addition contains viridifloren (up to 1%), V-terpineol (0.24%), L-terpineol (traces) and allihexanoat (traces).
The combination of these fragrant connections provides to liquid characteristic, easily recognizable smell.
The product from leaves of a melaleuka is fine antibacterial, anti-fungal and anti-virus substance. The terpenes which are its part are capable to overcome a set of bacteria. They get in microorganisms and turn for them into the pernicious toxins breaking structure and functions of cages. Thanks to it it is possible to accelerate many times the course of cold, flu, SARS, to heal purulent wounds, to destroy a fungus of legs.
Also he improves work of the immune system, cares for nervous system, helps to remove hypostases and improves a condition of integuments.
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Air main applications from a melaleuka — medicine, cosmetology and stomatology. Here it helps to treat grazes, bruises, cuts, extensions. It is applied as soothing to the people with unstable mentality having serious stresses. Helps to concentrate attention on working process that leads to increase in efficiency of work. Is a part of goods for hygiene of a mouth. It can be used and as antiseptics. Perfectly helps to cope with the most part of the illnesses connected with teeth and gums.
It is irreplaceable in care for skin and indumentum, in fight against cold and gynecologic problems.
In more detail all scopes of raw materials from a melaleuka are described below.
It is easy to prepare useful compresses, masks and inhalations with use of a radio product independently.
Botanical oil is capable to strengthen and recover the injured hair. For this purpose it is necessary to add couple of drops of raw materials to shampoo or the conditioner and to use them as usual.
If it is necessary for you will get rid of dandruff, mix 7–10 drops of tea tree oil from 250 ml of shampoo. Application has to be daily. It is possible to destroy dandruff also oil. We rub it in a head integument, we wait for five minutes and we wash out hair with shampoo. It is easy "to knead" the strengthening mask. For this purpose the yolk, 2 drops of a radio product from a tea tree and 2-4 drops of jojoba oil will be necessary for you. We mix components and we apply on hair before a shower. We roll up a towel and we wait for 30-60 minutes. We wash the head as to you it is habitual. We apply twice a week, it is no more.
Vegetable oils — corn, castor, wheaten germs — available and useful assistants in questions of female beauty.
Tea tree oil found the application and in face make-up. We take three tablespoons of green tea and we prepare chifir. In it we pour out 1 tablespoon of flakes oat-flakes, 1 tsp of lemon juice and we add two drops of oil. We mix everything and accurately we cover with it a face. 20 minutes later we wash water of room temperature. This mask helps to improve appearance of the person irrespective of integument type.
At the fat and combined skin care prepare other mix. Take 2 tsps of cosmetic clay, as much oat flakes, three teaspoons of kefir and two drops of radio substance from a melaleuka. We bring mix to a kasheobrazny state and we cover a face for 15 minutes. We wash warm water.
Daily rubbing by tea tree oil of zones where acnes were formed will help to get rid of pimples. Process leather since morning and for the night. If it is inconvenient to you to rub substance in a face, mix it with cream. Couple of drops are required. Such cream is applied to skin by a thin layer.
Important! Do not recommend to mix with the large volume of cream. It is better to divide it into portions.
For achievement of the maximum effect at fight against an acne prepare the cleaning mask. We mix one tablespoon of dry cosmetic blue clay with two teaspoons of sour cream of the minimum fat content and two drops of a radio product. Intensively we stir everything and we put for 10 minutes on a face. We wash cool water.
Many people are familiar with such problem as bleeding of gums. Rinsing with tea tree oil will help to forget about discomfort. Part couple of drops of this substance in a glass of lukewarm water and rinse with such solution a mouth two-three times in a day. You not only will get rid of problems with gums, but also will destroy an unpleasant smell in a mouth.
If tooth began to hurt, and to the stomatologist there is no time to go, drip a drop of radio substance on the problem place or rinse teeth. It is possible to add a drop to toothpaste.
At acute respiratory diseases with damage of the upper airways carry out an ingalirovaniye. We drip in hot water several drops of oil, we bow over capacity and we cover the head with a towel. Deeply we breathe. Steam inhalation helps to humidify and cough up the dried-up slime.
At cold effective use of compresses with tea tree oil. To two tablespoons of vegetable oil we add two drops of radio. We impregnate with this connection a gauze and we put on a thorax of the patient, without mentioning a heart zone. We cover a gauze with a transparent film. We wrap up a thorax a woolen thing. We lie 30–60 minutes. Compresses are good both for kids, and for adults.
Recommend to mix 50 drops of essential oil with 100 ml of a massage basis. By such mix also do massage.
Mass application tea tree oil is observed in gynecology. With its help it is possible to combat such problems as the milkwoman, various rashes of a bacterial form in an external part of genitals. But not to do harm to the organism, the woman has to consult surely with the doctor. He will register a necessary dosage and a course of treatment. It is independently possible to carry out only hygiene of genitals with addition to water of five drops of oil.
For maintenance of hygiene of an intimate zone add couple of drops of oil to means for care for this zone.
If it is necessary to get rid of a fungus of nails, prepare a special bath. In it you will steam out skin standing, will cut off the coarsened sites and will prepare nails for putting tea tree oil. We put with a thin layer, we do not wash away. There can be a feeling of burning. Do not worry, it is normal. We perform the procedure daily within two weeks three months.
The melaleuka oil applied on this zone will help to get rid of the unpleasant itch which arose because of a sting of an insect.
When it is necessary to relax after heavy day of work, to reduce stress, tension and fatigue, recommend to breathe vapors of tea tree oil. Part 1–2 drops on 100 ml of water and place in the aromalamp. If you do not suit its strongly expressed aroma, add a few other essential oils. For example, two drops of the same substance from tangerine, as much are enough rose attar for three drops of a product from a tea tree and three drops of lavender.
Whether you know? The aromalamp it is possible to make with own hands. For this purpose it is enough to take small capacity, to place there the plants containing essential oils, to fill in with water, to close and put densely in the fridge for two weeks. Then, when oils will pass into water, capacity it is necessary to take out, open and lower inside a floating candle.
To get rid of cold, it is enough to drip on a finger a droplet of tea tree oil and to pound it near by, taking edge of a nostril. Regular application accelerates process of elimination of congestion of nasal bosoms.
If strong or it passed cold into antritis, it is possible to strengthen action of a radio product, having added couple of drops to the aromalamp.
Important! Do not allow an integument peresushivaniye in a nasolabial zone.
The aromavann can accept. In warm water part 9–10 drops of substance from a melaleuka and lie down in it 10 minutes. If it is necessary will get rid of hypostasis of legs, prepare a bathtub with sea salt and dissolve in it 3–5 drops of substance. You can steam legs in a basin. Immersion has to last no more than 10 minutes.
The chief supplier of tea oil is Australia. But in many other countries also arrange its production. Therefore that the nobility which of producers provides quality goods it is necessary to remember such nuances:
- The aroma of the real product will have sweetish notes with sharp camphor inclusion.
- If to drip a goods drop on filter paper, then in a couple of minutes on paper there should not be spots.
- The quality goods will have pale yellow or olive color.
- Process of production of a product expensive — means, and the final price of goods will be not small.
The radio product is stored far from sunlight and in the cool place where children will not be able to reach. The cover of a bubble has to be densely closed. You do not store in a plastic container.
As well as any medicine, tea tree oil does not do harm if to use it taking into account the recommended dosages. At the same time, as it is product of plant origin, it is necessary to consider that it can be allergen. Therefore all who suffer from any forms of an allergy before use of radio substance should make allergoproba. It is possible to carry out them and in house conditions. Drip a drop in a zone of an elbow bend and look whether there is an irritation.
Do not recommend to use a product to pregnant women and the feeding, small children.
If skin is sensitive, do not apply oil in pure form. Mix it with olive. Avoid when drawing zones of burns, frostbites and sites where the irritation appeared. Air from a tea tree is intended only for external application. Therefore during rinsing of oral area do not swallow of it.
Be accurate when drawing it on the person. Avoid an eye area. The concentrated solution is also not used in intimate area.
So, we found out that tea tree oil — not only means for air aromatization, but also the real medicine. However, though this fragrant substance is received from plants and has the mass of medicinal properties, it is necessary to use it carefully. Do not try to overcome an illness only in the national ways. Consult with the doctor and combine vegetable medicine with normal medicines.