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4 Neem Oil Products Available
Q: How do I choose? A: If just want something just to apply to your skin and is not as messy as oil, then order one of the jars of cream. The NEEM Cream or the Repair Salve. Both the Neem and the Neem & Tea tree oil is used for bath, shampoo, body skin care, head lice. See the traditional methods posted on below . If you need it especially for head lice application or prevention, then order the Neem Oil. Feel free to ask me for an information sheet about how this is used for treating and preventing head lice. It works and I know it because I’ve used it for my kids after the pharmacy stuff didn’t work. Q: HOW DOES THIS SMELL? Neem oil has an aroma of sulfur and garlic. When we mix it with the tea tree it does become a little more medicinal to the senses. It is not necessarily a pretty smell but it does the job you need it to do! However the Repair Salve for eczema, has lavender in it that helps the aroma somewhat. ABOUT NEEM TREE SEED OIL : The Neem tree is native to India and is commonly known as “The Cure All” tree. Neem’s antiseptic properties are widely recognized now. One of Neem’s stronger advantages is its effect upon the skin in general. It has been most helpful in treating a variety of skin problems and diseases. According to a report from the National Research Council’s Ad Hoc Panel of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Neem preparation from the leaves or oils can be used as general antiseptics. Because Neem contains antibacterial properties, it is highly effective in treating epidermal conditions such as acne, psoriasis and eczema. It is also used for treating septic sores, infected burns, scrofula, indolent ulcers and ringworm. Stubborn warts can be cleared up when a high-quality Neem product is used. Unlike synthetic chemicals that often produce side effects such as rashes, allergic reactions, or redness, Neem doesn’t seem to create any of these results. Psoriasis is successfully treated with Neem oil. The oil moisturizes and protects the skin while healing the lesions, scaling and irritations. Experiments have shown that patients with psoriasis who have taken Neem leaf orally, combined with tropical treatment with Neem extracts and Neem seed oil, achieve results at least as positive as those who use coal tar and cortisone, the more traditional treatments. Coal tar products are messy and smelly and cortisone can thin the skin when used repeatedly. Neem has neither side effect. It can be used for extended periods of time without any side effects and is easy to apply. Traditional Neem Oil Uses and Methods: Psoriasis, eczema, cold sores, skin ulcers, athletes foot, fungal conditions etc: Mix 1 tablespoon Neem oil with 4 ounces carrier oil such as almond oil or olive oil. Apply to affected skin twice per day. Watch carefully for possible irritation. Increase dilution if skin is sensitive. For dandruff and head lice: Massage Neem oil mixed with coconut or olive oil into hair and leave for 1 hour. Shampoo. Repeat 3 times a week. Pick out nits daily. (Add 125 ml bottle of our Neem & Tea tree oil to 875 ml olive oil to make 1 L of head lice treatment. Makes enough for 6 treatments). Shampoo for mange, fleas, or head lice: Mix 15 ml Neem oil with 8 ounces mild shampoo. Use shampoo on kids for lice prevention. For complete skin protection add 15 ml to the bath along with a little rose water. Soak for athletes’ foot and other foot problems, add 15 ml Neem to warm water and soak feet. Warts and moles: Apply 1 drop of undiluted Neem oil directly on wart or mole, once per day. Watch carefully for possible irritation. Continue for 2-3 weeks. Spray for pets and livestock for mange mites, ticks, fleas and other pests: Mix 30 ml (1 ounce) Neem oil with 1 gallon water and few drops of mild soap or dish soap (to emulsify oil). Put into spray bottle or other type of sprayer and spray animals once every 2 weeks, or as needed. In case of sinusitis, use just plain pure Neem oil (without tea tree oil) as nasal drops. Two drops morning and evening. Prevent breeding of mosquitoes by adding Neem oil to all breeding areas. Neem products ensure complete inhibition of egg laying for seven days. Spray for indoor and outdoor plants, flowers and vegetables: Mix 30 ml Neem oil with 1 gallon water and few drops of mild dish detergent (to emulsify oil). Spray foliage including undersides of leaves. Repeat every 2 weeks. This is an organic and bio-degradable insecticide and fungicide; make fresh formulation for each spray. Insect repellent spray for people and pets: Mix 15 ml Neem oil with 1L water and few drops of mild dish detergent (to emulsify oil). Dispense from a spray bottle. To ward of mosquitoes, add 5 – 10% Neem oil to any oil and light as a diya (lamp). Store Neem oil in a cool dark place, away from sunlight. In case Neem oil solidifies due to low temperatures, put the bottle in warm water (below 95 degree F) to liquefy. Putting the bottle in very hot water may reduce the effectiveness of oil.
NEEM and HEAD LICE: How it works: LIMONOIDS: So far, at least nine neem limonoids have demonstrated an ability to block insect growth, affecting a range of species that includes some of the most deadly pests of agriculture and human health. New limonoids are still being discovered in Neem, but azadirachtin, salannin, meliantriol, and nimbin are the best known and, for now at least, seem to be the most significant.Azadirachtin: One of the first active ingredients isolated from neem, azadirachtin has proved to be the tree's main agent for battling insects. It appears to cause some 90 percent of the effect on most pests. It does not kill insects-at least not immediately. Instead it both repels and disrupts their growth and reproduction. Research over the past 20 years has shown that it is one of the most potent growth regulators and feeding deterrents ever assayed. It will repel or reduce the feeding of many species of pest insects as well as some nematodes. In fact, it is so potent that a mere trace of its presence prevents some insects from even touching plants. Azadirachtin is structurally similar to insect hormones called "ecdysones," which control the process of metamorphosis as the insects pass from larva to pupa to adult. It affects the corpus cardiacum, an organ similar to the human pituitary, which controls the secretion of hormones. Metamorphosis requires the careful synchrony of many hormones and other physiological changes to be successful, and azadirachtin seems to be an "ecdysone blocker." It blocks the insect's production and release of these vital hormones. Insects then will not molt. This of course breaks their life cycle. Mellantriol: Another feeding inhibitor, meliantriol, is able, in extremely low concentrations, to cause insects to cease eating. The demonstration of its ability to prevent locusts chewing on crops was the first scientific proof for Neem's traditional use for insect control on India's crops. Salannin: Yet a third triterpenoid isolated from neem is salannin. Studies indicate that this compound also powerfully inhibits feeding, but does not influence insect molts. The migratory locust, California red scale, striped cucumber beetle, houseflies, and the Japanese beetle have been strongly deterred in both laboratory and field tests. Others: Certain minor ingredients also work as antihormones. Research has shown that some of these minor Neem chemicals even paralyze the "swallowing mechanism" and so prevent insects from eating. Repellant effect – Neem has demonstrated its repellency in trials against many insects, including buffalo fly and ticks in cattle, ticks and lice in sheep, mosquitoes and sand-flies, horn flies in horses, human head lice, fleas and ticks on dogs, cats and all domestic pets, insects parasitic against fruit, vegetable and broad acre crops such as cotton and sugar and for the first time ever against the North Q’land Fruit Sucking Moth. Insecticide effect – Neem kills insects by many different methods, the best known of which is it’s anti-feedant action. Once dosed, insects can’t feed and thus starve to death. However, Neem has many other activities against insects disrupting or inhibiting development of eggs, larvae or pupae, preventing the molting of larvae or nymphs, disrupting mating and sexual communication, repelling larvae and adults, deterring females from laying eggs, sterilizing adults, poisoning larvae and adults, feeding deterrent, blocking the ability to swallow by reducing the motility of the gut preventing metamorphosis, thus preventing for example mosquito wrigglers maturing into adults, inhibiting the formation of chitin, the substance essential for the insect to form an exoskeleton . All leaf-eating insects are wiped out as are all insects actually coming into contact with Neem. This huge array of insecticidal properties of Neem is thought to be due to it’s adversely effecting the insects hormone system. If that is so then no insect will be able to become immune, because it’s hormone system is essential for every bodily function. Most significant, insects develop resistance in each subsequent generation, and as insects dosed with Neem cannot breed, thus there are no subsequent generations in which resistance can develop. Is Neem Safe ? – Neem is safe for humans, animals, birds and fish, yet deadly to most insects. (For a Printer Friendly page click here) Effective ways that we have treated head lice: Day 1 we oil, Day 3 we oil and Day 7 we oil. However nit pick daily!! First I add the 125 ml bottle to about 875 ml of olive oil (because it is a thick oil). The oil acts to suffocate any live bugs. We have tried applying oil and wrapping hair in a plastic cap or wrap but it just runs down their necks. So I place a plastic garbage bag on the floor (in front of the TV of course) then I have child lie down on top of the bag, on her back, (no shirt just wrap a towel around them so that they don’t have to remove a shirt over their heads when they are all oily). I use an aluminum mixing bowl and have her place her head in the bowl. Then I pour enough oil over her head and rub it in until it is saturated. Using the bowl is great because it all stays in the bowl. It usually takes about 150 ml—250 ml depending on how much hair and the size of the person. I let the child watch a video for 1-2 hours. Then off to the shower. Give them a cloth to put over their eyes. Add the shampoo first, before water, and massage it in. Rinse and repeat. Blow drying the hair also helps kill lice. The hair is now ready to remove nits. It will be a bit sleek but it is easier to have a little oil in the hair to part hair and look for nits. It also helps them slide off easier. Using a metal nit comb is fine but you still need to check the hair section by section. The nits will be brown if they have not yet hatched. I used tweezers to squash them and remove them. White nit shafts are empty shafts which means the louse has already hatched. Place a towel on their pillows at night to keep the pillow covers from getting oily. Change bed sheets and blankets and wash and dry normally. Don’t worry about anything else in your house or their toys or stuffed animals. Do not go crazy cleaning your house. Clean once and then concentrate on heads. The way Neem works is different than other products. They will stop laying eggs and they will stop hatching. And the Neem will keep other bugs from wanting to take place on their heads. Head lice can live off a human head for up to 48 hours and a louse lives on a head for approximately 30 days. The last 3 weeks of life they lay eggs. 6-8 per day. Nits (lice eggs) are attached to one side of a hair shaft at an angle. Nits are usually white to light brown in color and do not come off easily. Tip - if it crumbles in your fingers, it is probably not a nit. A hatched nit needs a human blood meal within 45 minutes to survive. No comb alone will get rid of head lice. Manual nit picking is a necessary part of any lice treatment program!
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