Good Morning!

Sounds chill Hams @MDT just keep stacking $ away for a rainy day..

@MDT good morning Hams. Thanks for beautiful music nutcracker. Hope work will go okay. Cold and rainy here. Pray you will keep warm and happy. Take carem

Hey @Meowmy @TAB @MDT @Former-Member @Appleblossom

giving you guys strength for the day ahead. Might get a haircut, get my snakes food, and go out with the rents for lunch!

@Former-Member hope you will have a good day. Take care

Thanks @Meowmy , I like your name by the way. Is it pronounced meow-mee?

also what plans do you have for the day?

Good morning everyone. I have discovered a new aromatherapy company that is Australian owned and is 100% organic. I learned about it from a Budget Organics website after receiving an e-mail from them.

The aromatherapy company name is ECO Aroma. Their competitors in Australia are doTerra and Young Living Oils which are all MLM. Theres no fancy labelling and overheads are kept down to pass on savings to consumers.

I learned from an aromatherapist once that inorganic oils are just a nice smell in a bottle and have no therapeutic value because they are so diluted and manufacturing methods which render them ineffective. He said he once bought tea tree from the chemist to fix tinea on his feet which did not work. He then tried an organic essential oil and it worked. He stated he has no financial interests in essential oil companies So yes they (conventional oils) don't deliver results.

Anyway thought I'd mention. I will look into it some more at a later date

@Meowmy @Former-Member @TAB @MDT @Appleblossom

@Former-Member hey there. Just got a day full of house duties and errands. Hope to get through. Take care

I need a haircut @Former-Member Saw a Mormon who was doing free haircuts. My hair is a basic cut. I don't mind talking about Jesus as I still acknowledge him as an avatar but won't be looking at regular visits from The Church of Mormon. Had all my friends in the Salvation Army growing up so its ok with me. Maybe theres something I could offer him in return worth the same amount? I will think of something

@Former-Member :

"Tea tree oil in the treatment of tinea pedis
M M Tong 1, P M Altman, R S Barnetson
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PMID: 1303075 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1992.tb00103.x
Abstract
Tea tree oil (an essential oil derived primarily from the Australian native Melaleuca alternifolia) has been used as a topical antiseptic agent since the early part of this century for a wide variety of skin infections; however, to date, the evidence for its efficacy in fungal infections is still largely anecdotal. One hundred and four patients completed a randomized, double-blind trial to evaluate the efficacy of 10% w/w tea tree oil cream compared with 1% tolnaftate and placebo creams in the treatment of tinea pedis. Significantly more tolnaftate-treated patients (85%) than tea tree oil (30%) and placebo-treated patients (21%) showed conversion to negative culture at the end of therapy (p < 0.001); there was no statistically significant difference between tea tree oil and placebo groups. All three groups demonstrated improvement in clinical condition based on the four clinical parameters of scaling, inflammation, itching and burning. The tea tree oil group (24/37) and the tolnaftate group (19/33) showed significant improvement in clinical condition when compared to the placebo group (14/34; p = 0.022 and p = 0.018 respectively). Tea tree oil cream (10% w/w) appears to reduce the symptomatology of tinea pedis as effectively as tolnaftate 1% but is no more effective than placebo in achieving a mycological cure. This may be the basis for the popular use of tea tree oil in the treatment of tinea pedis."

apparently tea tree oil treats the symptoms, its not a cure. who knew.

prob other studies around, first one I saw

@TAB I read the study you provided. I don't know if you knew but a lot of these university studies are done to reflect vested interests so they are biased. Its a way to keep promoting pharmacological treatments for profits and not natural cures. They are paid for studies that only want a guaranteed certain result so its not actually a study at all. Just a way for the university to get funds.

Anecdotally, I was given a steroid cream for tinea a year or so ago and it just wouldn't work. I applied the cream twice a day and the tinea would not go away after going through a whole tube. I decided to try an aromatherapy experiment based on what this aromatherapist had said with his tinea and use organic tea tree myself and the situation resolved itself quickly in a few days. If you were to ask me whether I would use a steroid cream vs tea tree it would definitely be tea tree

I heard that the TGA has tried to restrict aromatherapy as it can actually outperform some creams and treatments for things on the market. So aromatherapy companies can't say on their webpages now what cures the essential oils can offer. They recognise that aromatherapy is likely to deliver a better outcome in many instances meaning they would lose a revenue stream. I was shocked when I found this out.