Mr Minty’s , it’s not just for cold and flu

Mr Minty’s Cold and Flu Mist

I’m still kind of excited about Mr Minty’s, several months after first trying this new essential oil blend.

You see, Mr Minty’s was supposed to help keep away the nasty cold and flu germs away . It’s  way better than that though!  It works great to add to liquid hand soap, laundry soap, or as a spray in the bathroom. (soooooooo….. much better than a smelly sulfurous match to cover up the odors, don’t you know?) I have a son that is only about 7 months old, and since he started eating solid foods, well any family that has had babies can tell you, the odors sometimes need a magic wand to make them go away. I don’t think I need to say anything more than that, do I?

In our house the laundry pretty much goes all day and night, because I have six children. Once in a while, someone forgets or doesn’t notice the laundry is waiting to be put into the dryer, and then both the laundry and the washing machine stink of musty mold and mildew. Yuck! ( I know, using that term dates me, but then again, so does having six children)

When added to hand soap, it gives a clean fresh tingly scent that can even clean away the strongest of odors from your hands. Works to get rid of smells on your hands that are stubborn, even like after cutting up onions !

Mr Minty’s comes to the rescue!

Mr. Minty’s is a blend of tea tree oil, peppermint, and eucalyptus oil, and all three are famous for their reputations to help control germs, mold, mildew, bacteria, and fungus. The aroma is incredible! The peppermint blends so well with the tea tree oil and the eucalyptus that when I first started trying this mix, I swore their must have been some lavender in it. (there’s not, by the way)

The most popular use for the spray in our home is in the bathroom. Yes, disgusting to discuss, but obviously a huge market exists for products that cover odors in bathrooms, diaper pails, schools, and nursing homes too. Have you ever looked at the label on the store products? I can’t begin to pronounce some of the chemical names, and I don’t know what the side effects might be, or if they are cancer causing, because the companies that make them aren’t required to tell you anything about that.

Now look at the label for an essential oil. It should say something like “Ingredients: peppermint oil”. Mr Minty’s? The label says “an incredible blend of tea tree, eucalyptus, and peppermint”. That’s it. Three essential oils blended together to knock the socks off of odors and enliven your spirits, refresh your air, and brighten your day. An atmospheric wonder waiting to help you keep the earth clean and green. A renewable resource free from chemicals created in a lab with names only a chemist could love.

Sure, you could look up the compounds that make up an essential oil, and sure they’d probably be hard to pronounce too, but at least you know it’s merely the concentrated oils from a plant lots of folks could grow in their backyard or at least see in an arboretum or while on vacation somewhere.

Just sayin’ , that I really like Mr Minty’s, and we use it in our house all the time. My kids love it, my wife loves it, our friends seem to like it too.

You can get Mr Minty’s Cold and Flu Mist in the Teatreewonders Store.

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Burn Pile Sparks Handy Tea Tree Oil Use

tea tree oil from teatreewonders

Tea Tree Oil

I’ll get to the tea tree oil stuff pretty quick here, but I need to vent. (Do you ever feel like that?) The title? Okay, so I’m getting a little laugh at myself in the title.

Yesterday it was unseasonably warm here, usual February weather is cold, 10-30 degree daytime temps, and 10 degree nighttime temps are really common. All this week though, it’s been in the 50′s and 60′s every afternoon. We’ve still had a few cold mornings though, mostly mid 20′s.

Anyway, my wife and I were out for a walk on the property this week, and there were a lot of dead branches laying around, many on our  property.   The US Forest Service came by last summer to mark out their boundary line by painting Fire Engine red skirts on the pines, and in order to get to the base of the line of trees, they slashed off branches and left them all over the ground to dry up, turn brown, and add to the potential fuel for a fire. Not only that, but the dead branches are just plain ugly.

We too had a few willows that have broken due to the snow load, and the fact they just rot and break naturally. All that dead wood sparked a burning desire in my heart, and I just had to have a burn pile! It’s legal here, and the neighbors don’t mind, mostly because the closest ones are a half a mile away, and a mile away respectively.

We can have a pile up to four feet wide, and that’s what I had. It was a hot blazing pile of dead branches, pine, cottonwood, and willow in a pyre that made my face a little rosy from getting too close a few times.

Which brings me to the tea tree oil.

Mom used to say, “If you play with fire you’re gonna get burned”. Need I say it?  Mom was right! As I was putting another log on the fire, a fiery hot ember popped out of the flames and landed of all places on the palm of my hand and STUCK there! Ouch! I brushed it off as the searing pain of that little red hot coal made it’s way to my brain, but I now had a fast growing blister the size of the tip of a pencil eraser.

I cooled it off on the cold rocks and stones, and after I had finished supervising the burn pile another 45 minutes or so, I went inside and put tea tree oil directly on the burn. I did not dilute it, I just used it straight. Funny thing, it took the last little bit of pain right out.

This morning, one of my hands had a sore spot, and without thinking I looked expecting to see the burn spot. The burn was on the other hand though. The spot that was sore was from where a stick had gouged out a small spot of flesh, while the burn doesn’t hurt at all this morning.  Thank You God for tea tree oil!

So long story short, now you get my title, Burn Pile  Sparks Handy Tea Tree Oil Use. I know, ugghhhhh, bad pun.

Next time you get a burning desire to spark a little fire, make sure you have a bottle of tea tree oil on hand. I offer T-41 C-0.7 Tea Tree Oil from NSW Australia in nearly any amount you could want.   Naturally, I recommend you buy tea tree oil here

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