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"Plant extracts have been used by civilizations for thousands of years for their health benefits. They often serve as an alternative to Western medicine.Tea tree oil is no exception. Derived from the leaves of the Melaleuca alternifolia plant, this oil can help with skin infections, acne, athlete's foot, and other inflammatory ailments. It's also known to help clean the hair, keep it strong, and reduce dandruff.With such valuable therapeutic properties, tea tree oil may be the answer to your hair issues. These days, tea tree oil is luckily found in common everyday products like shampoo.This seemingly simple oil contains around 100 different components, including molecules called terpenes that seem to exhibit antimicrobial properties, Mirela Mitan, Ph.D., New York-based biochemist and founder of the skin-care line MMXV Infinitude, tells SELF. Specifically, there's a lot of interest surrounding one active ingredient called terpinen-4-ol. Researchers are investigating tea tree oil's capacity to kill a variety of microorganisms on the skin thanks to elements like terpenes.""Although tea tree oil has many good properties, there aren't a lot of great randomized control trials proving its efficacy in most dermatological conditions,"" Brooklyn-based board-certified dermatologist Robert Finney, M.D., tells SELF. Even without a wealth of information on tea tree oil and skin, we can explore what experts have discovered so far.A 2015 review in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents dove into seven studies on how tea tree oil works for acne, finding that weeks-long, twice-daily application of over-the-counter products containing at least 5 percent tea tree oil seemed to reduce the lesions."

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