Can Essential Oils Stop Bacteria from Growing on a Petri dish? 

Lavender is supposed to be very good (and smells great). I often add lavender and tea tree to vinegar or alcohol-based cleaners.

this is fascinating! It would be great to see them in the concentrations used in cleaning up! Which i'm sure you have i'll have a looksee!

Thank you so much for this video. I have so many plant therapy essential oils that I need to use I was so excited that I came across this video. If you do another essential oil test video I would love to see plant therapy which is not a multi-level marketing company so it's more affordable. For those that are concerned they do give you the test results of each batch and have aroma therapist on staff for any questions.

Thanks you so much! You’re content wonderfully educating and interesting

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Fantastic videos😊 Thank you!!

Who knew?? I thought essential oils were just for smell. I learned something new!!

Can you please do essential oils from Plant Therapy they have organic and not organic so can you please choose for example a regular peppermint essential oil or vs an organic peppermint or any other flavor like cinnamon bark essential oil. I’m intrigued now from also watching the grapefruit extract the inorganic vs organic that was so unpredictable and shocking. I absolutely love all your videos, thank you so much! You are a hugeeeee help

Wooooow, that is SO COOL! I’m going to be using cinnamon in my bathroom from now on!🤩🤩🤩

Love this

Would love to see follow up video on the dyi cleaner especially for the bathroom!

Another great video! I'm binging on you today, and I really need to get back to work, but you're just so much fun, I Can't. Stop. Watching. LOL A comment re the coconut oil: I've read over the years that coconut oil is supposed to have antibacterial properties, but I'm pretty sure that was always referring to full-on coconut oil. I wonder if the processing required to convert it to fractionated coconut oil removes any of those antibacterial properties? I'd be curious to see a comparison of pure virgin coconut oil versus fractionated coconut oil on the sink and toilet. Not that anyone would necessarily use those as a cleaning agent, but for wound care, as another viewer pointed out, it could be good. And for me, it may be helpful to know if it's possibly coincidentally keeping the germ count down in my sink as a by-product of my cleaning process. My cleaning routine for my sink involves first spraying it with OnGuard cleaner, letting it sit for five minutes, then coming through with a paste of citric acid, lemon juice, a few drops of OnGuard, and blue Dawn dish soap. I let that sit for a few minutes, then scrub and rinse with hot water, and smile at the beautiful shiny (stainless steel) sink! But as a final step, I keep an old spice container that I filled with some regular full-on virgin coconut oil (Kirkland brand) plus about 10 drops of OnGuard (oil) mixed in, and I put about a teaspoon into each side of the double sink and buff to a shine. This process helps the water to bead up and keeps the sink looking great all week until I rinse-and-repeat. I usually keep an empty sink throughout the day, and as I use it, I wipe it dry, and sometimes midweek, I'll make another pass with the coconut oil/OnGuard mixture. I have been doing the coconut oil wipe strictly for the water beading effect and to maintain the shine, but I wonder if I've also been contributing to reducing germs and bacteria by way of the OnGuard mixture (which I mostly use in that mix because it smells so good). So I think a great experiment would be to clean the sink with whatever your preferred and most effective method is to reduce the germs, then do the coconut oil/OnGuard wipe on half of the sink (I suppose you'd need to use a paper towel to ensure a germ-free wiping medium), then use the sink as normal for a few days, then swab both sides of the sink and see how the germs and bacteria compare. Your To-Do Wish List is never going to stop growing. The possibilities are endless LOL! Keep up the good work. Now excuse me while I back awaaaaaaaay from the Play button, or at least try to, so I can earn some money LOL! ~Karen :)

I would love if you could put a more up close version of your list on your YT Story because I just wanna see what's on it. these were all super cool! I just watched a video of a professional cleaner whose client ONLY used essential oils to clean her bathroom...for over a decade.... it was so bad to say the least. but ever since your tea tree and alcohol cleaner video I've been considering using more essential oils to help disinfect my place. thanks so much for posting, I'm actually about to make my own incubator! I'll stay in your comment section and let you know how it's going when it starts going lol 😆

Dang cinnamon!

That is good results . 8 know that Vanderbilt Hospital Nashville TN uses essential oils to mop floors . I ask the lady that came in what she used , she said it was essential oils . If good enough for a hospital and after seeing your test it's good enough for me. Tbe down side essentials oils seem to deteriorate plastics . I learned the hard way folks . I used it to clean something that was plastic . Big mistake .

If you just clean with On Guard it has all that already in it. You can smell the cinnamon in it. I also add wild orange to it as well for that fresh clean citrus smell. I love cleaning with my oils

Hello! I just discovered your channel and I love the methodical process you follow for the testing you conduct! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. I am surprised by the results from the cinnamon essential oil. I looked on your channel to see if there is a follow up video using cinnamon essential oil. I wonder if you are using cinnamon essential oil in your home cleaning. If possible, it would be great to see on your channel more videos on environmentally friendly and effective products such as cinnamon essential oil. I wonder if you have tried using citric acid in your cleaning. Thank you!!

Great Test! I wish you would do the 'bleach' over, because I suspect that even the 'fumes' can affect bacteria when 'closed in' a container and I'd like to see if that's true or not and to what degree, (how much bacteria growth near the drop of bleach, compared to how much bacteria on the other side of the 'closed' dish). ~Also to be fair, I think it would help to have a test done on the actual type of 'oil' which is used to make the essential oils, so we could be certain if the lack of bacteria was due to the herb vs the oil.

The secret of cinnamon is eugenol ⚠️

Great Video! I want to do something similar for a science fair project- did the Petri dishes have agar in them, and if so, did the essential oils harm it or chemically react? Also, were the oils diluted or used straight out of the bottle

You should dilute the essential oils in water and carrier oil and see if the effect is the same. That way essential oils can be used to clean. Otherwise at ~$10 a small bottle, it is way too expensive.

I love the smell of pine oil. Does it kill germs/bacteria?

Can you test. 50/50 dawn and vinegar?

I’d be interested to see the difference between anti bacterial bar soap. And natural bar soap

Should have done oregano oil. Would have had no growth at all

Have you done eucalyptus oil yet?

Oregano

Btw - Your voice and music volume doesn't match. The music is much much louder. I have to turn the volume down when the music comes up.