When dd had a staph infection on her face, I made up a cool (meaning not hot ) tea with oregano and garlic and used a bandaid to hold a cotton ball that was soaked in the tea, on it.

I never understood why this worked better than the steroid cream the doc. gave us (every time I stopped using the cream it would come back).

Then, just this year I started looking at oregano and it was very well explained by what I found:

http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/can...Study/Oregano/
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...hlight=oregano

Also, I have not researched this yet but I have some homemade coconut/B vitamin/CoQ10 skin moisturizer I made... Both children were starting to get that 'eczema look' on a spot on their faces... so I thought that I would put this 'moisturizer' on it before it developed into staph... and see what happened... both children's faces were clear when I looked at them yesterday. It took about a week to clear.

I do remember reading something about coconut oil being an anti-fungal or something. I'm not sure though if I'm getting confused with something else... but it may give you a lead somewhere.