Isn't that tree sap or something from Australia? If it is, I heard it is
effective.
Curious,
V

Stephanie (and others) -
it's tea tree oil
Assuming you mean topical (not oral)
Last year someone asked or posted and Timothy posted this
http://www.exoticbird.com/gillian/teatree.html and said to stay away from it.

There are other posters who claimed it is antifungal, good for lice and Shingles

http://tinyurl.com/36vrg - have a look at these

Most of the posters who posted about it, aren't here to tell us if they got
worse on it or if they're still using it or ????..
Sandra posted to someone to "see a dermatologist".  Janers is somewhere in those
posts. Maybe she remembers or some of you will read the previous posts and make
up your own minds.  I don't know.
J

How much cash does she get if you sign up?

Hello all,

The only experience I have with melaleuca products is for the skin, and it
has helped my seborrheic dermatitis (dandruff) on my scalp. It also seems to
heal cuts well, and quickly. I use it to remove ticks from my dog. Just a
little on the tick, and the thing is easily removed from the skin. The smell
alone must overwhelm the tick!

I've put the oil on some round, red, scaly spots I occasionally get on my
skin, and I've believed they helped with that too. I've been getting them
off and on for ten years now, and have thought they might be psoriasis,
though I don't get them on my elbows or knees, just on my arms and legs. Now
with being diagnosed with lupus, I don't know. It may be the melaleuca oil
helps dry it up, or maybe the spot was just going to fade anyway by itself,
its hard to know.

There is a large company that markets here in the USA that puts melaleuca
oil in everything they sell, and they market an extensive collection of
things, including some makeup, lotions, and perfumes, laundry soap, house
cleaners, and much, much more. My mother at one time sold for them, under
another person. With their system, each new person can enter into a business
relationship with the company through someone else who gets something from
everything they sell. There are also other partnerships as well, I believe.
I never did get into the business end of it, and I'm not sold on putting
melaleuca into everything either. They did have a great shampoo for
psoriasis and seborrhea, which was also good on lice, etc. as someone
mentioned.

When last I knew they changed their formula for the shampoo, and it wasn't
any longer marketed for skin conditions, and it didn't help. I now use
shampoo from another company.  I have tried adding melaleuca oil from
Walmart to other shampoos, and it wasn't the same. Apparently the
effectiveness of melaleuca oil depends on its grade, and the best are very
expensive, sold by the ounce, or less.  My mom quit the company because of
their research on animals, hence my connection with them is long gone. My
mom never was able to get other buyers/sellers to come in under her. Most
people know what they want to buy  and where to get it, they don't want to
learn about melaleuca  or the company, and don't appreciate their friends
coming after them for sales.

The Australians use melaleuca oil for alot of things, I hear. I was told
once they even use it in wounds in the hospital, and in surgery.

I've never heard the oil helped with lupus, but there are other emails here
with websites about some of that that I have  yet to explore.

JB