Looking for a list of natural antibacterial substances (oils, juices, etc.) to make homemade soaps (dish soap, laundry detergent, bath soaps, cleaners, etc.). Have a small list already. Need more info.

Black Currents
Chaparrel
Honey
Garllic
grapefruitseed extract
Lavendar essential oil
Thyme essential oil
Melaleuca (tea tree oil)
Cinnamon oil
colloidal silver, add after you have sapponated your oils

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Pretty sure all essential oils have antibacterial qualities. Tea tree is renowned for it's anti fungal and antibacterial properties.

Isn't using all these antibacterial hand soaps and detergents creating a higher level of bacterial resistance rather than actually preventing problems??

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Bacterial resistance occurs when a chemical is designed to interact and interfere with a cellular process. Those bacteria that survive mutate and become resistant to that particular interference.

I do think some natural products could potentially have this effect but how to know for sure without studies?

Natural products like essential oils used for infection should be given for several days after all symptoms are gone, perhaps up to a week to be absolutely sure the pathogen is gone. Just like antibiotics they should have a course of treatment that is adhered to. This will reduce the risk of developing bacterial mutations. Until the verdict is out all measures should be taken to do the job successfully. Even though some of these products can kill MRSA, without studies or endless observation we will not really know for sure what they are doing to that bacterial cell.

If anyone has any studies on this topic for any natural substance I sure would like to see them.

This is why MMS and colloidal silver, ozone, hydrogen peroxide and grapefruit seed extract are so great. They destroy the bacterials outer cell wall. Nothing is left that is capable of developing a resistance.

In general this is true with most things classified as anticeptic as opposed to antibacterial but there are likely exceptions.

Yea this worries me though.. because, I just got off a long course of real antibiotics (for prostatitis) and now im trying to rebuild my immune system/gut flora but I love garlic and have been eating a lot of it.. I hope im not essentially continuing to take antibiotics.. i dunno what to do

No moxum, garlic will not hurt normal gut flora. It will boost the immunity naturally though its sulpha compounds and its allicin will kill anerobic bacteria... gram negatives. Don't worry