Questions for: Oils that eliminate mold---Really?

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the reference, . Two questions for the group:

1. Why would Dr Close and his information on Thieves Oil be

believed instead of all the others claiming their products are the

best? In other words, what do we use to make decisions about

how to take care of ourselves?

2. Some of you have used Thieves Oil in the past. Your posts will

be in the Archives. But save us all the trouble of researching it,

please repeat your experience here. Good experiences, bad

experiences and neutral ones. Please say if you used it as a

cleaning product, on your body, or to get mold out of the building.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Hi, Carl.

I did a search and found the name that keeps showing up in

connection with using thieves oil to eliminate mold. His name is

Dr. Ed Close (an environmental engineer). The following link

takes you to one of the websites that talks about Dr. Close and

his theory regarding thieves oil. He claims that it " clears up mold

in less than 24 hours. " He says he uses a " proprietary blend of

essential oils to remediate toxic mold. " His information has been

showing up in the Comments section under some of the articles

about mold in schools.

http://www.wisechoiceliving.com/tfc.php

From: Carl E. Grimes <grimes@...>

Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 8:00:24 PM

Subject: Re: [] Oils that eliminate mold---Really?

,

I apologize for my impatient response. I guess I just get tired of

the same old " snake oil " claims despite increasing evidence they

don't work. I hear them even more in my professional life than I

do here so my memory of where I hear it may be somewhat

defective!

Whoever authorized this fumingtion by oil in schools ought to be

sued for gross ignorance and incompetence of protecting the

public. Perhaps placing asthmatic children in danger with the use

of a fragranced product. They obviously checked no resources

other than that offered by the (persuasive) person selling the

process.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Carl, I have two comments.

Many of us (including me) have short-term memory problems caused by

our exposure to toxic mold, so we don't always remember everything that

has been discussed.

The main reason I sent that article to the group is because I have been

reading news articles where someone is commenting about using thieves

oil to " fumigate " schools and they claim that gets rid of the mold and

toxins. It doesn't sound reasonable to me that spraying oil inside a school

(or any building) would make it safe. Since I couldn't remember if the

Sickbuildings Group had approved of this idea regarding thieves oil, I

sent this new article to the group.