Neem is a plant. It has been used for many things including using its
kernel as an animal feed. Neem cream is typically made from the leaves.
Neem has many proven uses, however you should be careful as most are not
cosmetic. Mainly it is studied as a pesticide,microbicide or spermicide.
Most recently it was reported in the September issue of Contraception that
old and tender neem leaves extracts are spermicidal.
Here is the abstract.
Spermicidal activity of Azadirachta indica (neem) leaf extract
Khillare B, Shrivastav TG
CONTRACEPTION
68 (3): 225-229 SEP 2003

Abstract:
The present study was carried out to evaluate the effective concentration
of aqueous extract of old and tender Azadirachta indica (neem) leaves to
immobilize and kill 100% human spermatozoa within 20 s. Sander-Cramer test
was used to study the spermicidal activity of neem leaf extract. Under the
test conditions, minimum effective spermicidal concentrations for tender
and old leaf extracts were 2.91 +/- 0.669 mg/million sperm and 2.75 +/-
0.754 mg/million sperm, respectively. The effect of extracts on morphology
and viability of sperm was also studied and no change was observed in
morphology of head, mid-piece and tail and no viable sperm seen. The leaf
extracts were found to be water soluble and carbohydrate in nature. The
effect of different concentrations of extracts (old and tender) on
percentage motility of the sperm was also studied. With an increase in
concentration, there is a linear decrease in percentage motility, becoming
zero at a 3-mg dose within 20 s. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights
reserved
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> all over the net I hear about a cream called neem.
> Do you know anything about it?
> Is it truely helpful??
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