Eucalyptus Oils & Soaps

Eager purchasers of Boys from the Bush Products
Eager purchasers of Boys from the Bush Products

Natural Medicated Rub

Use: Pain releif from insect bits, burns and arthritis
Active ingrediants:
River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)
Narrow-leaf Paperbark (Melaleuca linariifolia)

Price: $8:50 plus postage and packaging

Natural Medicated Soap

Use: A smooth ant-bacterial anti-fungal body soap
Active ingrediants:
River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)
Narrow-leaf Paperbark (Melaleuca linariifolia)
Hand made coconut oil

Price: $5:50 plus postage and packaging

Cryptocarya Bag

This printed calico bag contains the wood shavings of Cryptocarya cunninghamii, commonly know by Cape York Aboriginals as Masing. Men used this tree to cast love spells over women. The tree grows in the lowland rainforest of western Cape York Peninsuala. The wood contains oil that is absolutely unique in the world of essential oils; the scent resembling a mixture of peach and coconut. This bag will emit a pleasant aroma for up to 2 months. It can be placed in the bedroom, under a pillow, in a cupboard, clothes drawer, car shoes, or bathroom.
Price: $5:00 plus postage and packaging
Pure Bush Oils (hand harvested from the wild)
Lemon-scented Gum (Eucalyptus citriodora)

Lemon-scented Gum is an attractive medium to tall slender tree with straight, smooth, pink coloured trunks. This species of eucalypt is distinguished by the strong scent of lemon in the leaves. Lemon-scented gum grows naturally in patches in sub-tropical north Queensland. Its leaf oil has 25 compounds. The principle components are citronella (85-91%) and citronellol (8%). This oil can be used as a perume, disinfectant, cleaner or insect repellent.

Price:
5 ml bottle $5:50 plus postage and packaging
10 ml bottle $10:50 plus postage and packaging
Pure Bush Oils (hand harvested from the wild)
Lemon-scented Ironbark (Eucalyptus staigeriana)

There are two lemon-scented euclypts, both are endemic to north Queensland. The Lemon-scented Ironbark is distinguished by the strong scent of sweet lemon in its leaves. This tree has the typical ironbark appearance. A small to medium-sized tree that grows in a small area around the Palmer River in sub-tropical northern Queensland. Its leaf oil has 34 compounds. The principle components are limonene (14%), B-phellandrene (12%), terpinolene (5%) and a-phellandrene. This oil can be used for perfumery purposes, insect repellent or as food additive.

Price:
5 ml bottle $5:50 plus postage and packaging
10 ml bottle $10:50 plus postage and packaging
Pure Bush Oils (hand harvested from the wild)
River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)

River Red Gum is the most widely distributed of all eucalypts. This species grows under a wide range of climatic conditions from warm to hot, sub-humid to semi-arid environments. This species relies on seasonal flooding or a high water table. It grows along or near almost all seasonal watercourses. It is particularly prevalent along the Murray-Darling river system. Its leaf oil has 58 compounds. The principle components are 1,8-cineole (38-84%), spathulenol (18%) and globulol (10%). The oil can be used to treat burns, cuts, cold sores or infections. It can prevent bacterial and viral growth and ease pain by numbing nerves. It can kill or repel a range of insects and ease the pain of insect bits. It can ease the pain of sore muscles, aches and pains, rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis.
Price:
5 ml bottle $5:50 plus postage and packaging
10 ml bottle $10:50 plus postage and packaging
Pure Bush Oils (hand harvested from the wild)
Lemon-secented Paperbark (Melaleuca citrolens)

Melaleuca citrolens was first described in 1986. It grows as a large shrub or small tree with slightly papery bark. It occurs across tropical Australia usually in small clumps in open forest or woodlands. The leaves are narrow obovate in shape. The leaf oil has a distict lemon-rose scent. The Boys from the Bush are the first to harvest this shrub for its oil. Its principle compounds are citronellol (40%), citronella (16%), geranial (4.8%), isopulegol (4.3%) and neral (3.6%). The primary value of this oil is its beautiful perfume and excellent insect repellent properties.

Price:
5 ml bottle $5:50 plus postage and packaging
10 ml bottle $10:50 plus postage and packaging
Pure Bush Oils (hand harvested from the wild)
Yellow-barked Paperbark (Melaleuca nervosa)

Yellow-barked Paperbark occurs in a range of environments in the tropical north. It grows as a tall shrub or small tree with fibrous papery bark. It has green or red spiked flowers growing at the end of branches. The leaves are narrow-obovate shape up to 12 cm long. The leaf oil is extremely complex containing 59 compounds, rich in sesquiterpenses. The principle compounds are spathulenol (20-40%), B-caryophyllene (6-18%) and caryophyllene oxide (7-9%). Boys from the Bush are the first to harvest this tree for its oil. This oil can be used for similar purposes as tea-tree oil and the treatment of burns, acne, thrush, wounds and abrasions.

Price:
5 ml bottle $5:50 plus postage and packaging
10 ml bottle $10:50 plus postage and packaging
Pure Bush Oils (hand harvested from the wild)
Narrow-leaf Paperbark (Melaleuca linariifolia)

Melaleuca linariifolia is a tea tree. It is found in the coastal estuaries to many inland streams from southern New South Wales to Cape Melville in far north Queensland. The leaves are narrow and about 3 cm long. In its natural state, tea tree oil is extremely complex containing at least 48 organic compounds. The principle compounds are terpinen-4-ol (42%), gamma-terpinene (24%), alpha-terpinene (9%), terpinolene (4%) and 1,8-cineole (4.3%). This oil has a number of medicinal properties. The oil can be used in the treatment of burns, lice, ulcers, acne, dandruff, thrush, septic wounds and cuts. The oil has a fantastic ability to penetrate the skin, which makes it an excellent ingredients in shampoos, conditioners, moisturisers and medical creams.
Price:
5 ml bottle $5:50 plus postage and packaging
10 ml bottle $10:50 plus postage and packaging

Pure Bush Oils (hand harvested from the wild)
Cape York Red Gum (Eucalyptus brassiana)

Cape York Red Gum grows in northern Cape York Peninsula. The trunk of this tree looks like an ironbark while the upper part of the tree and its branches are smooth and whitish or yellowish in appearance. The leaf oil is very unusual. It has 53 compunds, 14 are sesquiterpenes which account for 10-30%. The main compound is 1,8-cineole (36-65%), a-pinene (1-12%), globulol (3-17%) and a small amount of citronella (10%) and citronellol (1%). Boys from the Bush are the first to harvest this tree for its oil. Uses are unkown.

Price:
5 ml bottle $5:50 plus postage and packaging
10 ml bottle $10:50 plus postage and packaging
Natural Air Freshener Spray

This product is supplied in two parts. We provide a labled bottle with mist pump, plus a 10ml bottle of pure premixed wild bush oils. You pour the 10ml bottle of oil into the spray bottle, add the required amount of water, incert the mist pump, shake and use.
Active ingrediants:
Lemon-scented Ironbark (Eucalyptus staigeriana)
Lemon-scented Paperbark (Melaleuca citrolens)
Price: $12:00 plus postage and packaging
Natural Air Freshner Spray has a pleasant sweet lemon-rose scent.
Suitable for all rooms.
Natural Insect Repellant Spray

This product is supplied in two parts. We provide a labled bottle with mist pump, plus a 10ml bottle of pure premixed wild bush oils. You pour the 10ml bottle of oil into the spray bottle, add the required amount of water, incert the mist pump, shake and use.
Active ingrediants:
Lemon-scented Gum (Eucalyptus citriodora)
Sandalwood (Santalum lanceolatum)
Mangove (Osbornia octodonta)
Lemon-scented Paperbark (Melaleuca citrolens)
Lemon-scented Ironbark (Eucalyptus staigeriana)
Price: $12:00 plus postage and packaging
Natural Insect Repellant contains 5 natural insect repelling oils (all with a
pleasant aroma) used by indigenous people for thousands of years and now
harvested by the Boys from the Bush.
Spray in the air or directly on arms and legs.
Natural Disinfectant Spray

This product is supplied in two parts. We provide a labled bottle with mist pump, plus a 10ml bottle of pure premixed wild bush oils. You pour the 10ml bottle of oil into the spray bottle, add the required amount of water, incert the mist pump, shake and use.
Active ingrediants:
River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)
Narrow-leaf Paperbark (Melaleuca linariifolia)
Price: $12:00 plus postage and packaging
Natural Disinfectant Spray has two powerful natural oils used by indigenous
people to treat infections caused by bacteria, fungus and viruses.
Can be sprayed on non-plastic surfaces, in the air, on clothes or pillows.
To purchase oil products - please send details to

Postal address
Boys from the Bush Products
9 Harrison Close
Kanimbla, Queensland, 4870

Telephone
0429 644 645

E-mail
mjames@boysfromthebush.org.au

Postal and packaging charge

$10.00 for goods up to 750 grams
$15.00 for goods up to 1.5kg.

For postal purposes please allow 200 grams for the spray bottles, 100 grams for medicated soap, 70 grams for balm, 40 grams for 10ml oil, and 30 grams for 5ml oil.

Organisation: 
Boys from the Bush
Contact Name: 
Milton James
Contact Phone: 
Contact Mobile: 
0429 644 645
Contact Fax: 
Contact Email: 
mjames@boysfromthebush.org.au
WWW: 
www.boysfromthebush.org.au