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Pilot Study to Evaluate Tea Tree Oil Gel for Facial Acne

NCT01657110 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 18

Last updated 2015-01-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Mild to moderate facial acne is an extremely common disease of teenagers and young adults. This pilot study will investigate whether treatment with a gel containing tea tree oil reduces numbers of acne lesions and improves acne in twenty otherwise healthy consenting participants. The hypothesis is that treatment with tea tree oil gel will result in a significant improvement in acne after 12 weeks of treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Tea tree oil

Pea-sized amount of tea tree oil medicated gel (containing 200mg/g tea tree oil) applied to the face twice daily for 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Royal Perth Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hollywood Private Hospital

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • The University of Western Australia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Prasad Kumarasinghe · Royal Perth Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-12-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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Diseases

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