Tea Tree Oil's anti-bacterial properties also extend use in household chores, making house clean and healthy. Putting drops in humidifier will clean, disinfect and refresh air and putting drops in dishwasher and washing machine will kill all germs.

True Tea Tree Oil is only grown in Australia. There are many brands that are from inferior trees and not from genuine Tea Tree whose Botanical name is Malaeuca. The name Tea Tree was given by Joseph Banks botanist who travelled with Captain Cook and collected leaves to make a herbal teas.

Your first purchase should be made from a Health Shop until you know how to define whether it is genuine oil or an inferior oil as results will obviously not be same with an inferior product.

There are many excellent websites on internet and many excellent books which will give you all uses of this wonderful oil. You will be amazed at excellent results you obtain and will find it is truly a medicine kit in a bottle.

The information contained in this article is for educational purposes only and is not intended to medically diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Consult a health care practitioner before beginning any health care program.

Grain Products: Breads and muffins made with milk, pancakes, and waffles; cake or cookie mixes, pie crusts made from butter or margarine, French toast, some dry cereals, and biscuits.

Fruits and Vegetables: Canned and frozen fruits or vegetables processed with lactose, buttered, creamed, or breaded vegetables.

Milk and Milk Products: Milk (dried, evaporated, nonfat, and whole), yogurt, ice cream, sherbet, cheese, custard, puddings, and whey and casein proteins manufactured with lactobacillus/acidophilus culture.

Meat and Meat Alternatives: Meats, fish, or poultry creamed or breaded, sausage and other cold cuts containing nonfat-milk solids, some peanut butter, and omelets and soufflés containing milk.

Other: Instant coffees, margarine, dressings, sugar substitutes containing lactose, toffee, chocolate, creamed soups, butter, cream, some cocoas, caramels, chewing gum, some vitamin-mineral supplements, some drugs, peppermint, and butterscotch.

Since calcium is a major component of many lactose-containing foods, it is vital that individuals who are lactose-intolerant receive adequate calcium from other foods (in fact, milk is not an ideal source of calcium, as will be discussed in Chapter Seven). These include almonds, brazil nuts, caviar, kelp, canned salmon, canned sardines, shrimp, soybeans, and turnip greens, broccoli, strawberries, and leafy greens. Leafy greens are currently under suspicion as a viable calcium source since greens are now believed to contain certain calcium binding agents that prevent calcium absorption.