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Home Remedy Topic: Head Lice133 home remedy submissions for Head Lice
| Submitted by donna at 2010-07-27 13:39:06 from 174.126.6.104 |
my niece has been coming over and everytime she does she has lice now i have tried everything from headlice medicines and vinegar and mayo and dish detergent and now im using rubbing alcohol i hope this works...
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| Submitted by Sherry at 2010-07-14 18:57:49 from 96.28.78.253 |
My daughter brought lice home from camp. I used Rid and was still finding live lice on her head. I am currently using listerine and white vinegar on our hair.(after using the listerine we only found dead lice.) Then I had an epiphany... FLAT IRON!!!! So now I am using that on our heads once a day. So far so good!!
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| Submitted by laura at 2010-07-07 22:32:21 from 24.118.115.229 |
hi! my kids had lice for the first time 2 years ago, i cut my 9 yr old sons hair really short and i saturate my daughters hair w/any thick (cheap) conditioner, cover and leave on overnight - works great!! voila - no more live lice - still have to comb but her hair is soooo soft! hope this helps! and please remember, anyone (including parents) can get them. God bless!
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| Submitted at 2010-07-05 13:00:40 from 98.230.19.135 |
I have read all the remmedies here for head lice treatments. I will definately try a few of these out. However, I have not read anywhere on here remedies for the home?? I have washed, suffucated those little buggers. I have gone as far as actually putting the furniture OUTSIDE for days!! I am fed up! Are there any remedies for carpets, furniture etc that you know of? That spray at the store is HIGH as a kites tail and it really just DOES NOT work! Any ideas??
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| Submitted by Rachel at 2010-06-28 14:13:12 from 98.87.79.184 |
We tried Rid, Nix, Olive oil, mayo, everything... nothing worked. Then I came up with this concoction of my own that worked:
HOMEMADE LICE SHAMPOO -
water (4 ounces)
salt (1 Tablespoon)
Dr Bronner's 18-in-1 Peppermint Castile LIQUID soap (4 ounces)
Paul Mitchell's tea tree Shampoo (4 Tablespoons)
Vinegar (1 Tablespoon)
Dish soap (like Dawn) - (1 Tablespoon)
Oregano Oil (16 drops - no more than this as it can have a hot/burning sensation - just 16 drops)
*** Mix 4 ounces of warm water with 1 tablespoon salt until salt is totally dissoved. This is very important step as otherwise salt will not dissolve properly in shampoo, and it is needed to dehydrate lice and nits.
*** Then mix in 4 ounces of Dr Bronner's 18-in-1 Peppermint castile LIQUID soap. Mix well. (This dissolves lice exoskeletons)
*** Add 1 Tablespoon White Vinegar. Mix. (This loosens glue of nits)
*** Add 1 Tablespoon Dish soap. Mix
*** Add 4 Tablespoons Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Shampoo. Mix. (Stuns and immobilizes lice and helps kill them)
*** Add 16 drops of pure Oregano Oil. Mix. (This kills them too)
**** Mix this very well and pour into an empty shampoo bottle. Wash hair with this shampoo, lathering really well and keeping on head for 5 - 10 minutes. Rinse well. Shampoo a second time the same way. Rinse again. Distribute Conditioner of any kind into hair, leave on and go through hair with a nit comb. Rinse well......... Do this everyday for 2 weeks. You should not see anymore nits or live lice at this point (actually you shouldn't see any after week 1, but going 2 weeks on the nit combing is just being safe as per their life cycle). After this it's VERY important that you continue to use this shampoo in place of your regular shampoo (lathering and leaving on head for 5 minutes, rinse and do a second time) every day for the next 4 weeks. No need to nit pick anymore as they're all pretty much gone after 2 weeks, and any stray nit that remains and hatches will be killed quickly in babyhood by this DAILY shampoo. After these final 4 weeks (6 weeks total -> 2 nit combing weeks + 4 prevention/continued treatment weeks) you can return to your regular shampoo, but I prefer to use Paul Mitchell's Tea Tree Shampoo for prevention (lice hate the scent of tea tree and will avoid your head). Lice have been gone and stayed gone, finally!
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| Submitted by Dianne at 2010-06-25 01:33:37 from 68.69.218.237 |
Sauve Coconut Shampoo and Conditioner works wonders. No combing. No chemicals. Just use it everytime you shampoo. No more worries!!
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| Submitted at 2010-06-02 00:10:01 from 71.142.81.212 |
I used permanent hair dye and both the lice and nits were gone within a day. I color my hair anyways, so it was time to touch it up and I left it on 10 extra minutes and it killed the lice and nits and I've been lice-free since.
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| Submitted at 2010-05-24 08:51:06 from 74.109.11.94 |
I am a pharmacist. When my daughter was in the first grade she picked up head lice at school. I tried using Nix twice, but she still had lice. The school nurse suggested mayonnaise, but this seemed very unappealing, so I decided to go to the beauty supply store and buy a hot oil treatment made for hair. It came in a plastic packet that you placed in a cup of warm water to heat it up. After applying to the hear you needed to cover the scalp with a plastic bag and allow to sit on the hair for about 3 to 5 minutes. It worked and her hair was beautiful! Of course, the hair needs to be combed free of lice eggs with a special lice comb. Good luck!
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| Submitted at 2010-05-12 23:15:03 from 96.247.152.157 |
I am 19 years old and I have beautiful long blonde hair. Over the years, it seems I have had a million bouts with lice. I am a very hygienic person and always have been. On top of it all the other 4 people in my household never get them! My mom and I keep a very clean house, but, alas, they keep coming back to me. My doctor told me that it was actually worse that we are so clean- they like clean heads to move around on. I am not ashamed of it anymore and you shouldn't be either. Almost every single person gets it at least once, and some they like more than others. My trick is KEROSENE and a LICE COMB! I swear it works the first time every time with no doubts! It costs about 88 cents for the kerosene, and 6 dollars for the lice comb. Trust me, it sounds dangerous, but if you're careful around you're eyes- it's a piece of cake! I have tried all the special shampoos like RID and NIX but the truth is they just don't work! Even the home remedies didn't work- mayonaise, olive oil, orange/mango shampoo, and so on! none! This is the only way I go.
To do this you need:
Enough kerosene to coat the head 2 times. (at least. they should be gone after one, but I always do it again to be safe.)
one good lice comb
a washcloth
**You will probably want to do this where you can comfortably rinse.
First brush your hair out, then comb through with the lice comb to get them loosened up really well.
Then, with someone you trust's help, hold the washcloth over your eyes and have them douse your head and scalp with kerosene. They should work it in some, but be careful and not leave it on too long. then rinse VERY VERY WELL and shampoo/condition as you would regularly.
Go back to combing and make sure you look and comb very hard and get everything out.
Repeat the kerosene/shampoo/conditioner step.
dry hair with blow dryer and it should be gone.
check over the course of the next few weeks, and your lice should be gone gone gone!
My doctor told me this remedy after nothing else worked, and I don't even try anything else now!
I also recommend using DENOREX EXTRA STRENGTH once to twice a week to deter the lice from coming back. It works like a charm! I promise!
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| Submitted by Vik at 2010-04-13 16:40:10 from 71.116.12.210 |
Here is one of many head lice home remedies:
Get two egg yolks, two to three tablespoons of vinegar and two to three tablespoons of lemon juice. Mix these ingredients well. Apply them to your scalp. Allow it to set for about half an hour. After that you wash it off with warm water.
Use one to two tablespoons of lemon juice, and one to two tablespoons of garlic past. Mix these two. Apply this to your scalp and let it stay for about half an hour. Wash your hair in cold water.
Mix two tablespoons of lemon juice with one tablespoon of butter. Make a cream out of these ingredients and apply it to your head. Leave it on for a minimum of 15 minutes. Rinse it out.
Repeat this measure for four days. At the end of four days stop. Wait several days. Then reapply the treatment again for four days.
Take a raw lemon, apply it to your head once a week. This is said not only to prevent lice, but keep dandruff at bay at the same time.
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