Ingredients : Thymol (present as a component of essential oil): 0.05%. OTHER INGREDIENTS: Water, sodium lauryl sulfate, copper sulfate pentahydrate (bluestone), citric acid, sodium citrate, and essential oils fragrance††.

Meet the botanical disinfectant of tomorrow. Thymox - with its patented technology - is a line of powerful, safe and non-toxic formulas that feature the active ingredient thymol, a component of thyme oil.

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Use Profile. Thymol is a constituent of oil of thyme, a naturally occurring mixture of compounds in the plant Thymus vulgaris L., or thyme. Thymol is an active ingredient in pesticide products registered for use as animal repellents, fungicides/fungistats, medical disinfectants, tuberculocides, and virucides.

Chemical Disinfectants

• Alcohol.
• Chlorine and chlorine compounds.
• Formaldehyde.
• Glutaraldehyde.
• Hydrogen peroxide.
• Iodophors.
• Ortho-phthalaldehyde (OPA)
• Peracetic acid.

Thyme's essential oil, usually referred to as “oil of thyme,” contains between 20 percent and 60 percent thymol. Manufacturers extract oil of thyme for a range of uses, including scenting soaps and as an ingredient in deodorant. People have used oil of thyme as both an antiseptic and an insect repellent.

How does thyme oil do this? Thyme essential oil contains the phenolic compound thymol that can kill pathogens such as bacteria and fungi via cell membrane disruption.

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Thymol improves digestion by relaxing smooth muscles, prevents menstrual cramps, attenuates respiratory problems and is an active ingredient used in food flavorings, topical ointments, various soaps, toothpastes, shampoos, deodorants and mouthwashes (Shapiro et al., 1994; Manou et al., 1998).

It's simple: thymol disrupts pathogens' cell walls and membranes. Once cell walls and membranes have been damaged and cell content leaks out, bacteria, viruses, mold, fungi and yeast are killed as they come into contact with the thymol.