Tea Tree Essential Oil
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Description
Tea Tree Essential Oil has a sharp medicinal aroma with green leaf, terpenic freshness, pale wood, and dry herbal bitterness. It is not a soft decorative scent. Tea Tree is direct and functional, which is exactly why customers recognise it so quickly in soaps, shampoos, foot products, scalp formulas, and cleansing-style blends.
The first impression is strong, green, and clinical. Later, the scent becomes drier and more woody, leaving a practical herbal trace that works well in balms, creams, diffusers, cleaning-style blends, and formulas with lemon, lavender, eucalyptus, rosemary, peppermint, cajeput, niaouli, pine, or thyme.
Tea Tree needs restraint. Used lightly, it gives clean aromatic structure. Used heavily, it can become harsh, clinical, dry, or overpowering.
Essential oils can be applied topically once diluted with a carrier oil. They are widely used in cosmetic goods and handmade crafts.
Details
| Botanical Name | Melaleuca alternifolia |
| Origin | China |
| Family | Myrtaceae |
| Plant Part | Leaves |
| Extraction | Steam Distillation |
| Note | Middle |
| Colour | Pale yellow to colourless |
| Consistency | Thin |
| Scent | Tea Tree essential oil has a fresh, Antiseptic and medicinal scent. It also has characteristic mint and spice back-notes. |
| Blends With | Camphoraceous, citrus, and woodsy oils. |
| Group | Camphoraceous |
Cautions
Never use pure oils on the skin without diluting, never use internally, keep away from children and eyes, always check if there are any medical issues which could cause a problem. Seek help if you have any doubts.
