15 Methods of Head Lice Removal
For your convenience, I've put together below a list of all the ways that I know of as to home treatments for head lice. I've used many of them and heard good things about the others, or else I wouldn't have listed them. Here goes:
Please note that, whichever approach you use, you cannot avoid painstakingly combing through the hair to remove the nits, and you need to be sure to use a metal nit comb to do this with, and if your child has long hair, be sure that it has long teeth as well.
Another caveat: When a head lice removal method calls for vinegar, please use only apple cider vinegar, as white vinegar is a toxic substance.
Finally, a superb grease-cutting agent is Dawn dishwashing liquid that helps remove the treatment substance from the hair a little easier.
1 - Melt two tbs. butter with about a half cup lemon juice and distribute through the hair. Leave on for thirty minutes, and rinse with a cocoanut shampoo and conditioner. Follow by combing with a metal fine-toothed comb. Eggs nearly just drop off using this method.
2 - Take half a cup of isopropyl alcohol and add a cup of vinegar and a cup of original Listerine. Work this mixture into the hair and rinse. Then blow it dry after rinsing. Wash hair again then with any shampoo. As usual, follow with a thorough combing to get the nits out.
3 - Take a piece of camphor and crush it to powder before mixing with cocoanut oil. Avoid getting in eyes. This mixture causes you to itch-but it also ruffles the lice, so they start moving around. Let this stuff stay on the hair for a couple of hours before shampooing with cocoanut shampoo. Lice hate cocoanut! Follow this with a cocoanut oil massage to alleviate the itching before finishing with a thorough combing with a good nit comb.
4 - Every night for two weeks soak the hair with any conditioner and rub it in well. Every morning, rinse it out and use the nit comb. That should do the trick!
5 - There is an over the counter product out there now known as Licenex. The reason I recommend it is that is contains totally natural ingredients, not insecticides. With this product, enzymes crack and destroy the lice's exoskeleton (the hard shell that most insects have). If you cannot find Licenex in a store, do a search online.6 - Half a cup of liquid Downy mixed into a quarter of warm water works wonders. Just pour it over your child's hair and let it air dry. Then you can use a good cocoanut shampoo and conditioner, after which you do the nit combing. One treatment should do it.
7 - Now here's something I haven't tried: Crush seeds from a variety of apple known as the Custard. The seeds are known as Sitafal seeds. After you crush the seeds, heat them in cocoanut oil (lice detest this oil). After this mixture has cooled to be tolerably warm, distribute throughout hair and scalp, and then … yep, use the nit comb!8 - For this one, make a paste of equal parts of garlic oil and lime juice. Saturate the hair and work in. You will have to wash it several times to eliminate the garlic odor. Then rinse and do the combing routine.
9 - Good old rubbing alcohol works effectively at softening the glue that holds the head lice nits on the hair. Just be sure you get clear down to the scalp, as this is where the nits are hiding to keep warm. Don't get it in your child's eyes. Following the alcohol, pour warm water over the hair completely, and then after about 30 minutes, just rinse with regular shampoo. Denorex Dandruff Shampoo works well. Then do your thing with the comb!
10 - The original Listerine used in conjunction with vinegar is yet another remedy. Saturate the hair with the mouthwash and leave it on for about two hours. Add apple cider vinegar to that and leave on for still another hour. Use Selsun Blue Dandruff Shampoo to rinse, and then it's time for nit combing-lucky you!11 - If you can find a micro-grooved nit comb made of metal, that is good, because this type of nit comb has proved to be so efficient that it can be employed alone with no other special substance to nix head lice. You can get more info by pasting this into Google: Nitty Gritty NitFree Comb.
12 - There are four natural oils that are used regularly to address head lice, and they all work efficiently in killing head lice, and those oils include tea tree, cocoanut, rosemary, and mint. A company called Nature's Gate has put them all together in shampoo/conditioner that they have named Rainwater Herbal Tea Tree Oil Shampoo and Conditioner. Again, it is all natural and was originally designed to address dandruff problems. Once more, paste this into your search engine: Rainwater Herbal Tea Tree Oil Shampoo. 13 - If you or your child tolerates cold well (and if you live where it actually gets cold), you might try the following: Saturate the head with cocoanut oil, which will liquefy as you work with it. Then, as soon as you go out into the cold, the oil will solidify again. The one bad thing about this treatment is that you have to stay outside for at least an hour before the oil decimates the lice. Also, you have to go through this every other day for a full two weeks.
14 -Saturate the hair and scalp with Barbasol shaving cream (so easy to work with) before covering the head with plastic for an hour. Then use cocoanut shampoo/conditioner. Keep the hair wet and use a metal nit comb. You have to do this again every four days for a two-week period-just one head lice egg hatching out is all you need for another bout with them!
15 - The same company that makes the "Off" brand of pesticides also makes a bug lotion with natural herbs. If you rub it on the head and scalp thoroughly, it will work in an hour or so-but still, overnight is better to overcome any chance that the lice are just in their dormant state. It is said that this method works without combing, but I'd do it anyway just in case.
Please note that, whichever approach you use, you cannot avoid painstakingly combing through the hair to remove the nits, and you need to be sure to use a metal nit comb to do this with, and if your child has long hair, be sure that it has long teeth as well.
Another caveat: When a head lice removal method calls for vinegar, please use only apple cider vinegar, as white vinegar is a toxic substance.
Finally, a superb grease-cutting agent is Dawn dishwashing liquid that helps remove the treatment substance from the hair a little easier.
1 - Melt two tbs. butter with about a half cup lemon juice and distribute through the hair. Leave on for thirty minutes, and rinse with a cocoanut shampoo and conditioner. Follow by combing with a metal fine-toothed comb. Eggs nearly just drop off using this method.
2 - Take half a cup of isopropyl alcohol and add a cup of vinegar and a cup of original Listerine. Work this mixture into the hair and rinse. Then blow it dry after rinsing. Wash hair again then with any shampoo. As usual, follow with a thorough combing to get the nits out.
3 - Take a piece of camphor and crush it to powder before mixing with cocoanut oil. Avoid getting in eyes. This mixture causes you to itch-but it also ruffles the lice, so they start moving around. Let this stuff stay on the hair for a couple of hours before shampooing with cocoanut shampoo. Lice hate cocoanut! Follow this with a cocoanut oil massage to alleviate the itching before finishing with a thorough combing with a good nit comb.
4 - Every night for two weeks soak the hair with any conditioner and rub it in well. Every morning, rinse it out and use the nit comb. That should do the trick!
5 - There is an over the counter product out there now known as Licenex. The reason I recommend it is that is contains totally natural ingredients, not insecticides. With this product, enzymes crack and destroy the lice's exoskeleton (the hard shell that most insects have). If you cannot find Licenex in a store, do a search online.6 - Half a cup of liquid Downy mixed into a quarter of warm water works wonders. Just pour it over your child's hair and let it air dry. Then you can use a good cocoanut shampoo and conditioner, after which you do the nit combing. One treatment should do it.
7 - Now here's something I haven't tried: Crush seeds from a variety of apple known as the Custard. The seeds are known as Sitafal seeds. After you crush the seeds, heat them in cocoanut oil (lice detest this oil). After this mixture has cooled to be tolerably warm, distribute throughout hair and scalp, and then … yep, use the nit comb!8 - For this one, make a paste of equal parts of garlic oil and lime juice. Saturate the hair and work in. You will have to wash it several times to eliminate the garlic odor. Then rinse and do the combing routine.
9 - Good old rubbing alcohol works effectively at softening the glue that holds the head lice nits on the hair. Just be sure you get clear down to the scalp, as this is where the nits are hiding to keep warm. Don't get it in your child's eyes. Following the alcohol, pour warm water over the hair completely, and then after about 30 minutes, just rinse with regular shampoo. Denorex Dandruff Shampoo works well. Then do your thing with the comb!
10 - The original Listerine used in conjunction with vinegar is yet another remedy. Saturate the hair with the mouthwash and leave it on for about two hours. Add apple cider vinegar to that and leave on for still another hour. Use Selsun Blue Dandruff Shampoo to rinse, and then it's time for nit combing-lucky you!11 - If you can find a micro-grooved nit comb made of metal, that is good, because this type of nit comb has proved to be so efficient that it can be employed alone with no other special substance to nix head lice. You can get more info by pasting this into Google: Nitty Gritty NitFree Comb.
12 - There are four natural oils that are used regularly to address head lice, and they all work efficiently in killing head lice, and those oils include tea tree, cocoanut, rosemary, and mint. A company called Nature's Gate has put them all together in shampoo/conditioner that they have named Rainwater Herbal Tea Tree Oil Shampoo and Conditioner. Again, it is all natural and was originally designed to address dandruff problems. Once more, paste this into your search engine: Rainwater Herbal Tea Tree Oil Shampoo. 13 - If you or your child tolerates cold well (and if you live where it actually gets cold), you might try the following: Saturate the head with cocoanut oil, which will liquefy as you work with it. Then, as soon as you go out into the cold, the oil will solidify again. The one bad thing about this treatment is that you have to stay outside for at least an hour before the oil decimates the lice. Also, you have to go through this every other day for a full two weeks.
14 -Saturate the hair and scalp with Barbasol shaving cream (so easy to work with) before covering the head with plastic for an hour. Then use cocoanut shampoo/conditioner. Keep the hair wet and use a metal nit comb. You have to do this again every four days for a two-week period-just one head lice egg hatching out is all you need for another bout with them!
15 - The same company that makes the "Off" brand of pesticides also makes a bug lotion with natural herbs. If you rub it on the head and scalp thoroughly, it will work in an hour or so-but still, overnight is better to overcome any chance that the lice are just in their dormant state. It is said that this method works without combing, but I'd do it anyway just in case.
