Olfactory Fact #100: Essential Oil can Foil a Superbug

A 2007 study carried out during ten-months in a Manchester area hospital burn ward released the vapors of a proprietary essential oil blend called BioScent into two patient rooms but not into a third control patient room. Even though MRSA carrying workers and visitors were continually re-contaminating the wards, the scent-treated rooms showed a 90% reduction in infectious microbes from the control room, and no MRSA outbreaks whatsoever for the duration of the study.