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Tea Tree Oil Made Me Break Out

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(@gratifyinglox)

Posted : 12/07/2017 12:35 am

Hi so I recently started using tea tree oil as a spot treatment and I dipped a q-tip in the bottle and put it on my forehead and chin. The next day, I developed a few pimple on the forehead but not like the ones where you could pop, They were kind of just red and bumpy,

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(@99f)

Posted : 12/07/2017 1:43 pm

TTO is toxic to demodex mites. The fluid-filled lesions that don't come to a head which you describe are one of the hallmarks of these mites. The fact that you had new eruptions emerge is likely them moving to areas where you did not apply the TTO.

I would keep applying TTO to affected and non-affected areas for a few days.

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