Yes to Tea Tree Oil
- When my daughter complained of an ichy head - I searched her head, but saw nothing. My head immediately began iching too! I ran out to the heath food store where a wonderful woman suggested tea tree oil, a metal nit comb, and vinegar. Treatment: First straightened her long hair, then wet it and satuated with apple cider vinegar and combed through her hair raising the comb with each stroke. Found lots of yucky stuff. I then sprayed down her hair again with water and used the tea tree oil - about 10 drops into my hand and rubbed into her hair consentrating close to the head adding more oil as needed. We then washed her hair with our regular shampoo with 10 drops of tea tree oil followed by conditioner. Combed through her hair again and found more tiny brown things - nothing moving! I added 4 drops of Tea Tree Oil per oz to our shampoo - which made my head stop itching and kept my son from having problems too! Combed every 2 days for 3 weeks. Bug Free!
- —jkbg4jkbg
Tea Tree Oil Shampoo
- If you like healthy chemical free shampoos (and I do), the Made from Earth Tea Tree Shampoo is a real treat. It contains real tea tree and peppermint oils that produce a tingly sensation when put to work. I have pretty short hair so a quarter-sized dollop is plenty. I rub it into my wet hair and soon feel the cleansing sensation of the peppermint oils. After just a few minutes I rinse it out and my hair feels very clean.
- —Guest Melissa Masters
tea tree oil
- Lice is a nightmare to get rid of, most of those over the counter treatments no longer work on the lice as they have become immune to them. There are a lot of home made ways to get rid of them and I tried a few but they didn't work. What worked for me was soaking my kid's hair over night in tea tree oill with a shower cap. It's VERY messy but it worked for us. It also makes the kid's hair very silky and shiny after washing it all out. I then washed her hair with dawn dish washing liquid, then blow dried it. Now we use tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner on her and I blow dry and straighten her hair and pull it up in pony tails or braid it and we haven't had another lice out break since then. YOU HAVE TO KEEP CHECKING your child's head for at least a month or two to make sure you didn't miss ANYTHING. You leave just ONE nit and it starts all over again! I still do a head check on her once a month just to be on the safe side and give her a tea tree oil treatment once a month.
- —Guest passing through
Additional help for Head Lice
- My two elementary school aged daughters had head lice, but the other four females in the household did not get infected, despite repeated close contact. Our common, unintended prevention and also cure was - lots of hair gel! It must be applied to the hair near the scalp all over the head. My guess is that it breaks the reproductive cycle of the lice, since they cannot attach their eggs to the hair shafts. We had to eliminate the lice from the girls' heads, but then they were gone forever without dangerous or smelly chemicals.
- —Guest DonnaA
UGH
- Lice is a very complicated and ruthless discovery. Last night we recently had to do another Shampoo run. We used RID. With using that I make our kids shower in the morning and at night the scrub their hair. I also have them blow dry their hair with the hottest blow dryer setting. Heat kills the nits. It was a struggle to wash all the sheets, blankets ex. but its better to be safe then sorry!
- —Guest NoyB
head lice
- Hi i used to work in a Pre-School and my daughter kept getting head lice, she had long hair so an old lady told me to use coconut oil. leave it on overnight, then wash hair. My daughter never had head lice again and that was 16 years ago.
- —Guest Angelique
quick and easy cure
- I am a mom of 3 my daughter came home from school with lice! I checked her only found 1 live one and a bunch of eggs starting at her hair line. I pulled her hair in a pony and sprayed it generously with HAIRSPRAY i kept reaplying for 3 days and everything died washed it and she was cured! with no spread to my other kids nothing developed at all.
- —Guest jacquelinelisa
head lice advice
- I use kp 24 it took me about 3 weeks last time. My son wont let me put a comb through his hair. He has down syndrome so we wash every week for about 3 weeks and this got rid of them
- —Guest tracey coates
TEA TREE OIL! or Vinegar
- I fought for a long time till I dicovered pure tea tree oil. I prformed a test with all kinds of chemical & natural products. Tea tree & vinegar was the only 2 products that would kill the adult in less than 10 seconds & distort the egg sac. Now I spray my daughters hair every morning with a 10 part tea tree oil 90 part water mix....Almost a year now with no more bugs!!!
- —Guest Guest
Mother/Independent Consultant
- I agree with the use of Tea Tree Oil for head lice but did you know that using a daily shampoo that has Tea Tree Oil in it can repel the lice from ever nesting in your Childs head? Click on http://naturegirl.myArbonne.com, go to shop online, Arbonne Intelligence. There you will find Self-adjusting shampoo with tea tree oil. Arbonne’s products are botanically based, green, vegan, are formulated without any chemicals, dyes or artificial fragrances and have a 45-day money back Guarantee. I have been using this product on my children for 2 years and have avoided numerous classroom outbreaks.
- —Guest Sandy Natale
Tea tree Oil
- My daughter has never had headlice; she would NEVER tolerate any nit-picking, due to her sensory issues. As a preventative factor, I have always used tea tree oil in her shampoo when I wash her hair, as well as spraying her hair with a spray bottle with water and tea tree oil every morning as part of our daily hygiene routine. This seems to have been very successful for us.
- —KIMBERLEYW
Lice Goodbye (Non-Toxic) Louse Treatment
- I agree with Beth. Lice Goodbye is the best lice treatment out there. It is so safe that you can use it on the whole family when there is an outbreak. Just for peace of mind I used the Lice Goodbye on myself and my husband after my daughter came home with lice. Lice are never going away and they will continue to be a problem if parents do not use products that help repel lice. I use Rosemary Repel products on my whole family. They help repel lice so you never get infested and have to deal with those pesky critters. I've been using Rosemary Repel for years and my children have not had lice again even after being around other children who had it at school. Both the Lice Goodbye and Rosemary Repel products are made by Fairy Tales Hair Care. I wouldn't use anything else. Best Advice I can give parents, protect your children now before they get lice. Especially now that the APA says it's ok to send/keep children who have lice to school!! Making this issue worse for everyone!!
- —Jlynn55
Nit-Picking Services
- There are also professional "nit-picking" services such as Hair Fairies, a chain of kids' clinical hair salons specializing head lice removal. They use a combination of manual removal and natural products, and take care of the problem for you.
- —Guest Hal
Olive oil and tea tree oil
- I mix about a 1/4 bottle of pharmaceutical grade tea tree oil and 1/2 cup olive oi and soak my child's hair. Leave on for 2 days - we just pull it back and everyone thinks we've been swimming. Then wash and nits come off easily. No chemicals. I do lay a towel down on the pillowcase and a blanket in the car. The oil comes right out of clothes.
- —Guest guest
I hit the trifecta!
- All 3 of my kids had lice at the start of school 2 years ago. It was maddening! I agree that the pesticides (we used a prescription) are completely useless. We used mayonnaise & shower caps, and they still persisted. We ended up using a newer product that had a glycerin type consistency, LiceMD. Ultimately, we had to sit down in bright light, combing every little nit out, but they slid right off with Lice MD. YUCK! What else is in our job description??? :p
- —BarbDittrich
