Essenherb Tea Tree 100 Oil

What is this product?

An undiluted tea tree essential oil for dabbing on individual blemishes, and its statutory statement is three entries long: tea tree leaf oil declared at 100 percent, followed by limonene and linalool, which are constituents of that oil rather than added materials. That composition is the product's whole proposition and also its whole constraint. The brand's own notice prohibits broad area and excessive use and directs one to two drops on a cotton swab, which makes this a spot treatment rather than a facial oil despite the shelf it sits on, and anyone who reacts to declared fragrance allergens should note that two are on the list by necessity. The brand publishes no terpinen-4-ol content, no pH and no test of any kind on the surfaces checked, so the strength implied by the headline copy is unmeasured. The label states that no functional cosmetic filing applies, and a bundle listing for the same line states the opposite, which is recorded here as an unresolved conflict rather than settled.

What makes it different?

A three item statutory statement is close to the floor for a finished cosmetic, and it makes this one of the few products where the composition claim can be checked against the label in a single glance rather than reasoned about. The second differentiator is that the most useful line on the page is a restriction rather than a benefit: the manufacturer explicitly forbids broad area use, which is a stronger handling constraint than most spot products carry and is the thing a buyer should read first. Scent is also unusually load bearing here, appearing as one of the three things reviewers volunteer most, in a product where the scent and the active are the same substance.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil
• Limonene
• Linalool

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

We could not place these in the list above: Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Oil

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 5 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 2 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• Tea tree on blemish prone skin: ten forms, and only one has the researchTea tree appears on 66 Korean labels in ten different forms. The molecule the antibacterial work is actually about is disclosed on exactly four of them.