One of the reasons why aromatherapy is gaining in popularity is that they make gentle cleaners. Depending on the oil, it can clean your home; help clean your laundry, clean out wounds, clean up your skin, clean out toxins, bacteria and fungus. More and more cleaning and medical products are made with an anti-fungal essential oil or two. The nice thing is that the anti-fungal essential oils are usually the least inexpensive of the essential oils.
Chorus Line Of Essential Oils
Meet three of the most popular of the anti-fungal essential oils.
Tea Tree (Melaleuca alterniflia) – cheap, easily available and already used in a variety of health and cleaning products. It has a strong smell that quite possible scares the fungus away, but over time you get used it.
Lavender (Lavendula vera, Lavendula angustifolia, Lavendula officianalis) – the mainstay of aromatherapy. Its antibacterial properties are nearly as strong as tea tree, with a more pleasing scent.
Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha) — More expensive than the other two but very versatile and effective. A little goes a long way. It often calms down and relaxes anyone who sniffs it.
How Do I Use This Stuff?
You can use anti-fungal essential oils alone or in combination for athlete’s foot, ringworm (a fungus and not a worm), nail infections, jock itch or thrush. You can also get rid of mold on your laundry. When used in the bath, foot bath or sitz bath, gentle anti fungal oils like lavender and tea tree will clean not only you, but the tub.
To ease athlete’s foot, mix three drops of your chosen anti fungal essential oil into 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of an alcohol like vodka. Dab that on your clean, dry feet. This takes a while to work, so you may want to use this in combination with other treatments.
To make a foot wash, combine a few drops of your chosen anti-fungal essential oil in a foot bath. Not only does this kill the fungus and help it not to come back, it’s also very soothing.
To help ease vaginal thrush, either use a tampon with ONE drop tea tree oil on the tampon’s rounded end and insert, or douche with one drop of tea tree oil in one cup of warm water.
To help prevent mold on your towels or sheets exposed to moisture, add a half a cup of tea tree oil to your laundry.
To help clean the mold of your widow frames or tiles, use a teaspoon of your chosen anti-fungal essential oil in a small bucket of sudsy water and clean as usual.
Don’t drink any of the anti-fungal essential oils and try not to get any in your eyes.
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