Talk:Lavender oil

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Added properties from "Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary" (5th Edition) McGraw Hill 1987.

[edit] Merger

Oppose There are many other articles on essential oils, apart from the main plant articles. I see no reason to delete this one. Waitak 11:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose There's enough information here to justify a separate article. Kyleberk 20:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lavender Oil and gynecomastia in boys

Science News July 1, 2006 Vol. 170 page 6 indicates that products containing lavender oil or tea tree oil can cause enlarged breast in young boys.

Some quotes:

"Lavender oil and tea tree oil contain compounds that act like female sex hormones and interfere with male hormones,"

"Bloch recommended that the boys stop using lavender-containing products. When they followed his advise, gynecomastia disappeared within a few months."

"These oils possess both estrogenic and anti-androgenic properties," Henley reported at the Endocrine Society meeting in Boston this week.

"Young boys should avoid the oils, Bloch advises. Many personal-care products contain them."

"-B. Harder"

Somitcw 02:24, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Full article is only available to subscribers: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060701/fob8.asp

Non-subscribers can get to the table of contents: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060701/toc.asp

Non-subscribers can also see the references and sources: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060701/fob8ref.asp

Somitcw 07:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endrocrinology?

The article previously stated that Bloch was an "endrocrinologist." I changed this to "endocrinologist," but I'm not absolutely certain that endrocrinology isn't a medical term. IrisWings 23:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)