Fight mold and bacteria with natural home remedies and products| The Thieves Remedy and Thieves Cleaning Products

To your right you see a beautiful image, an awesome sunburst with impressive detail. You may wonder what this beautiful picture is and how you can get one for yourself?

Well its quite easy actually, simple scrape a sample from everyday bathroom or kitchen and place into a petri dish. To us, this is a beautiful image, but to a lab worker this is a sign of contamination.

Most bathrooms public and private can be expected to have high concentrations o fthe following possibly harmful bacteria:

• E-Coli
• Staphylococcus Aureus
• Streptococcus
• Campylobacter
• Salmonella

Even without the fight against harmful bacteria, the fight against mildew that is unsightly and damaging to your paint and grout is certainly apart of everyone's bathroom battleground adventure.

There certainly isn't a shortage of ways to fight bacteria in the home, the aisles are filled with cleaners and disinfectants that tout their effectiveness in remedying this problem.

But do we really want this caustic solutions in our homes? Do I want my indoor quality to include chemical solutions, bleaches and disinfectants. Are these items I want my pregnant fiance and unborn child exposed to. Will i be comfortable if my toddler gets into them, do I want to inhale the vapors as I clean a small enclosed space?

Answer: I don't and you shouldn't.

Thieves oil was first brought to my attention by studies that showed its effectiveness against MRSA. (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) You may remember that Staph is in the previous list of bacteria commonly found in private and public homes. The issue with MRSA is commonly related to hospitals, essentially, years and decades of combating this bacteria with antibiotics has created a common strain of Staph that is resistant to traditional treatment and is quite dangerous.You may have heard the term "superbug"

Studies done by the University of Manchester and Weber State University both showed that Thieves oil had a 99.9996% effectiveness in killing MRSA and ecoli bacteria (in fact all airborne bacteria tested for). This really got my attention.

The story of how Thieves oil was discovered is quite interesting. As the tale goes, four thieves were captured and before the judge with charges of looting from the dead. The kicker is, this was 15th century Europe and the dead had died from the plague! In exchange for their lives the thieves were allowed to give up the secret that allowed them to survive in the their dastardly deeds.

Regardless of the truth of the story a recipe has been created that claims these sordid origins.

Thieves oil  is just a simple concoction of cloves, lemon, eucalyptus, cinnamon bark and rosemary essential oils!

Our family uses Thieves oil in two ways, during the winter months and high exposure times a few drops on the scarf and collar is used to help fight contracting flu. But on an everyday basis our household cleaner is a simple thieves oil based solution, effective and safe enough to shower in.

I also diffuse the oil in my bathroom on a daily basis, the spicy and aromatic cloves and cinnamon scent is a treat on its own but more importantly I have personally watched as the mildew that used to accumulate on my bathroom ceiling ( No windows!) has disappeared on its own. I used to scrub it weekly with bleach and it would continue to develop and I would have to leave the bathroom alone for hours. Now, I administered the Thieves based cleaner on my ceiling once and regularly diffuse and have not had the issue again for close to 8 months.

Although, I do use some fancy store bought diffusers, the one in my bathroom diffuses oil and creates a soothing waterfall effect. Such devices are certainly not necessary. A few drops on a warmed light bulb or fixture works for a quick burst of essence and simple reed diffusers can be purchased or made for under $5.00USD. We use oils in every room of the house and have more conversation pieces as our diffusers. ( My office is being diffused with a calming oil as I type!...umm, where was I?)

related info: Aromatherapy Oil Diffuser Review

Although, I purchase my Thieves oil for cleaning purposes i get a concentrate cleaning solution that is organic and includes lemon and thieves essential oils a few capfuls in water is the extant of my preparation, and find it easiest to use for my lifestyle. Some recipes do exist for creating your own thieves oil cleaning products at home.

Vinegar of The Four Thieves Cleaning Solution

• Place 1/4 cup each of dried lavender, rosemary, sage, rue, cinnamon and mint into a quart size glass jar.
• Fill the jar organic apple cider vinegar.
  
• Cover tightly and allow to sit in a dark, cool place for 45 days

Soak a cloth scrap or cotton ball with thieves oil and leave in mold prone locations that are hard to reach!

Further links and research studies are available below comments

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Doctors S. C. Chao, D. G. Young, and C. J. Oberg published a study in Journal of Essential Oil Research 10, 517523 (Sept/Oct 1998) while working with Weber State University, Ogden, UTs similar study was performed and confirmed findings at Brigham Young University