Itchyface (Orange County, California) on 03/05/2009

Replied By Rp (Usa) on 06/05/2018

Just wished to add that yes, certain essential oils are effective, though how to use them can be confusing, and using them in too strong a concentration or pure, can burn the skin.

After experimenting, I found that diluting with a carrier oil worked, but diluting with Aloe Vera Gel or liquid was much more effective and almost instant.

Bathing in the epsom salts and borax as Ted mentions is helpful, but a rapid solution is to:

Mix together:

1 1/2 - 2 cups of Aloe Vera Gel and adds

2 drops orange oil,

2 drops peppermint oil,

3 drops, clove oil,

and 2 drops tea tree oil,

mixing that liquid in a small tray or container, then while you are DRY standing in the shower/tub (so the solution is not diluted by water on your body) apply that with a small face cloth, dripping on top of one's head, covering every single part of your body systematically. Rub it in and you will see them leave (and yes you can see the adult form). Continue to rub that in and after 20 minutes rinse your whole body.

Repeat the above process immediately again. (and a 3rd time if you are still seeing them leave but it will probably not be necessary).

Of course, as Ted has instructed, cleaning up the environment as noted throughout EarthClinic so as to prevent reinfestation is very important. But at least you will feel normal again and they will be gone. I would repeat the above process (one application) a few days in a row, and once a week while continuing to clean the environment, vacuuming, etc.

There is hope and natural treatments definitely can eradicate scabies. There is no doubt! Hang in there!

Replied By Rp (Usa) on 06/05/2018

It is not that natural remedies take longer than conventional allopathic medical treatments; the method of correctly using natural treatments is the key. Also, conventional medical treatments are increasingly failing due to resistance occurring.

With regard to essential oils, for example, they can be applied in a bath but some people put too much in and their skin is "burned" or irritated. Some have pointed out that to evenly distribute essential oils in a bath, drip the oils onto the epsom salts and borax powders, and then spread those powders into the bath water for an even distribution that won't burn the skin.

Other methods are using Aloe Vera gel which is ideal because it remains liquid for longer than gelled alcohol hand cleaner and can carry the essential oils into the skin, while also having its own anti-parasitic action.

One can also create one's own lotion with any lotion that you tolerate well and is absorbed well into the skin, but dilute it somewhat so it is more liquid than originally, and stir in the essential oils. This can be rubbed into the skin all over the body and left on overnight, as well as spot treatment for areas that are especially itchy.

However, we should not make the mistake many make to think that the mites exist only where it itches; there are many, many more spread around and this becomes obvious any time you use a remedy that causes the mites to release themselves from the skin and die; the adults become visible as tiny dark specks that can be felt when rubbing the liquidy Aloe Vera gel/essential oil or lotion on.

There is no need to poison oneself with neurologically damaging conventional remedies, mistakenly thinking the docs know better. They don't and have no clue what is really going on. Ted is right that these "nano-insects" of various sorts are being made to be increasingly resistant to conventional remedies.

Replied By Luann (Indiana) on 11/11/2025

OMG, this person nailed it right on the head when they said the amounts and dosages are all wrong. I agree that the doctors now days are not fixing the problem by giving us permethrin which is too toxic in the first place and does not kill them and a week apart for using them is hog wash. I read on here and did many, many different things to kill them and some work to a certain extent but does not kill them all and my husband has had them for several years to the point of his legs being scaley like a chickens. So anyway, to make a long story short I revisited this site and once again read up on the essential oils and decided to give tea tree oil another try but by using a stronger batch this time after watching a young woman on youtube saying that she cured herself and her children and the baby of 6 months by using coconut oil in the jar that looked similar to crisco shortnening. Yep she bought it at Walmart along with the 100% Tea Tree Oil and she claimed to mix it at a 5% ratio like this, she put 1 cup of the coconut oil solid stuff into a small bowl with a lid and added 1 tablespoon of the Tea Tree Oil to it and mixed it up very well and she said she smeared it all over herself and left it on overnight, don't know if she left it all day also or not, but she said next day she could see a big improvement so she did the kids and baby and they all improved daily. She claimed it took two weeks of doing this to kill the scabies on all of them along with correct cleaning of the house and clothing, bedding. OK, so I didn't have any coconut oil but I did have Aloe Vera Gel and mixed it at the one cup of that with a tablespoon of the tea tree oil and mixed it well until it became a white hue so it was really mixed in well. Didn't burn at all, so I put it on from my top of my hair/scalp very well and all the way to my bottom of my feet. I felt a cooling feeling only and a small tingling where the scabies were in patches and rubbed it in well. Them damn scabies went nuts. Because by now I had them all over similar to my husband but not as bad but still, the scabies started coming out of the skin I picked off what I could and after awhile the aloe dried and left it on all night. By morning I felt so much better, wow and the scabies, yes I could see the big ones and feel them, well, they were all dead and dried up, stuck on the skin in the aloe vera. Dead and hard so rubbed them off into the shower and down the drain, put more of this aloe on myself, just not my hair and left that on all day, felt so good on my skin, no more itching either. At night I put it on again, no shower then just head to toe and then shower it off in the morning and reapply it just not the hair then. My skin and hair are being repaired by this Aloe Vera and it also kills the scabies as well as the tea tree does also. Oh plus I had read that in India they use this and say that the tea tree oil kills the scabies mites and that we have it wrong about the eggs over here, because they say that it also kills the eggs....all stages of them. So after using this on myself for a few days my husband noticed how well I was doing with using it and so he decided to give it a try. I helped him and smeared it on him all over that night. Next morning he said I am not using this stuff no more just look at me...and I looked and he had red welts all over his back, belly, arms, butt just everywhere and he told me he thought he was allergic to it...so he washed it off. Two days later he looked at me and saw that I look pretty good, mine are going away pretty quick. Fastes stuff I have ever used so far and I have used every damn thing...and he said, hey, I want to try it again. I told him that I did so he put ablob on his arm and rubbed it in to test and see if he really was allergic to it and nope, several hours went by, no break out on arm. So that night we covered his body with the Aloe Vera and tea tree oil again. Because I told him that all of those red spots that he had broken out with the other time were in little 3 or 4 bump lines, like the scabies make when they lay eggs and the skin gets those red bumps lines. I think he had that reaction to the aloe stuff because it was killing them...see I had some of those myself when I first used it here and there but not as bad as him because he had way more of them than I did. So next morning no additional red bumps, and the older ones looked way better, which told me I was right. He had broken out so bad when he first used it because it was tearing them up and they became angry when their homes in the skin was being entered by this aloe which brought it's companion tea tree oil with it. ha ha it broke down they homes and they died, they came out by the droves and were all stuck, dead as hell on his belly, back, hell his whole body that next morning. Now, did it kill them all, no, but they are dieing and we are finding less of them every day now. been a week and I thought to myself, this works so great but I'd like to make something else that's easier to get into my longer hair than the aloe vera and so I read where some use different carrier oils. Once again a light bulb went off in my head and I grabbed a 20 oz. bottle of Johnson's baby oil out of the cabinet and proceeded to make up a 2 cup batch of the baby oil with a Tablesoon of the tee tree oil and then I added to that 8 drops of neem oil, 6 drops of sweet orange oil and 6 drops of clove oil. Shook it all up until it became sort of milky looking, mixed well and I took a shower with regular blue dawn dishwashing liquid as usual, works well and feels great to me. Rinsed off well, did not dry, just grabbed the baby oil bottle that has all of those wonderful essential oils in with it and rubbed it on from my face down, lightly on my eyes, not getting it into them but did lightly brush it on my eyelashes because they do get into them also, in my nose lightly as well, did not burn at all, anywhere. did not do my hair though as it was morning shower time. Will do my hair and all the way down my body again tonight. I feel great too. I think one more week and I will be clear of these little pesky, I wanna say the B word here but won't...but this does kill them and I believe this is the answer that I have prayed for. By God, where there is a will, there is a way, and I do also believe he has showed me this way. So I thought I'd share my experience with you all and hope it helps you like it is helping me and my husband. Just start slowly at first if you try it. A small patch test on your arm or somewhere on you where you think there are no scabies to see if your skin reacts with it. I guess I was lucky at first, as I just slathered it on my whole body at one time. Like I said, I did have some red ones raise up like he did but he had tons of them and that's what scared him. But we all are different and we do not all have the same skin. I think though on some things we try we can get scared off from using the one thing that might kill them because if it is strong enough to make the little critters go nuts and trying to get out of their holes in your skin it might be burning them to the point that they just go nuts and make big red welts at first. Now, I have not had a bite since using this stuff after the first three days, no new bites since, they do come out though but no red nothing, just see them laying on the top of the skin hard and dead. Hope I have said enough and this helps you. Have a great day honey.