This week’s top 5 is a useful one. No more flights of fancy with all those eco-chic purses. Let’s get down to the business of green blemish fighters.

Our first product of note is Nature’s Harmony Treemenda Tea Tree Oil. Nature’s Harmony imports the finest therapeutic grade tea tree oil from Australia.

And their particular formulation is less toxic and less irritating than the standard stuff. But why this oil? Tea tree oil, the essential oil steam-distilled from the Australian plant Melaleuca alternifolia, is a powerful broad range antiseptic, fungicide and bactericide. It is active against a wide range of microorganisms including Gram negative, Gram positive bacteria, fungi and yeast. It penetrates deeply into infected tissue, sloughs off infection while leaving healthy surface.

We’ll be seeing a lot of it in this top 5.