Archive for June, 2009

Head Lice- Natural, Cheapm Effective Home Remedies

Friday, June 19th, 2009

There are a bunch of effective home remedies that have been used for head lice for years.

Many of them use items that you probably alreadyhave on hand.

Many people are finding it better to use these home remedies for head lice due to how low cost and readily available the items are and how safe yet effective the are.

No more worrying about using harsh, cancer causing chemicals on your childs head or worry about the effects to your unborn baby.

Here is a list of some of the natural remdies for head lice:

Apply mayonaise to your head. Be sure that each strand of hair and your scalp are well coated  with the mayonaise. Use plastic wrap or a shower cap and leave this on for hours or overnight. This will kill all th ehead lice and their nits while actually moisturizing your hair. Wash and rinse well in the morning

Use equal amounts of baby oil and vinegar. Apply to your head and hair until well covered. Leave on for at least 1 hour. Wash with your regular shampoo, it may take a couple of shampoos to get this all out of your hair.

Use 15 drops of tea tree oil in your bottle of shampoo as a home remedy for head lice. Wash your hair, leave on for five minutes and then rinse out

Use straight vinegar on your hair. Make sure that all hairs and your scalp are wet with the vinegar. Leave on for several minutes. This is supposed to kill all nits in 2 days. You can buy a gallon of vinegar for a couple of dollars. It is great to have on hand for this and as a natural cleaner for your home as it kills gwema roo

Olive oil can be applied the same way as for using the mayonaise.

Use several drops of tea tree oil in some mayonaise or oilive ol and apply to your scalp and hair. Leave on for several hours or overnight for natural treatment of head lice

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Lice-Natural Controls

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Lice are awful pests that nearly everyone will come into contact with at some point. But it doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You don’t have to use chemicals that could have scary consequences. Besides, some people are concerned that lice (like so many other pests) are becoming immune to the controls that people have used for years.

But what did people do before these chemicals came into being? Lice have been around for centuries.

Aren’t there some sort of natural lice controls that you can use?

With this blog we plan to bring you as many natural lice controls as possible so that you won’t have to worry about head lice, body lice or pubic lice any more.

I am a licensed Cosmetologist and while going to school to become a Cosmetologist I was taught all about head lice and how to look for them.

Head lice tend to congregate behind the ears so this was the first place that we were taught to look.

You also should look at the individual strands of hair very carefully, even using a magnifying glass if necessary, to look for the lice eggs. These are called nits.

Nits are a white colored egg that is attached to the hair shaft. Nits do not brush out easily like skin cells or dandruff will.

Nits actually ‘glue’ themselves to the hair shaft making it hard to get rid of them all.

One method is to was and comb your hair daily with a nit remover comb. The teeth of the nit remover comb are spaced closely together so as to catch the nit eggs and remove them while combing your hair.

Now, this can seem like a lot of work but if you have a child with beautiful long hair they will likely not want their hair to be cut short. Yet with long hair it provides the lice and their eggs with plenty of places to hide

If you are pregnant you will not want to use chemicals that could harm your baby.

Washing your hair daily and using a nit remover comb after every shampoo is a safe natural and low cost way to get rid of the head lice.

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Natural Fly Control

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

If you are looking for natural fly control then here are some tips for you.

First of all, one of the best ways to control flies is using gly stickers. Fly stickers have been around for years because they WORK!

If you don’t like the look of having fly stickers hanging around your home you can use another type of ’stciker’. You will find these in the rodent control area of most stores but we usually get them in Walmart.

We get the cardborad pieces with the sticky on them. These can be laid around your hom and will not only help you with getting  rid of flies but also, mice, ants, mothsand even snakes. Though if you have a snake that has gotten in yoiur home (as long as it is not poisonous- in which case you need to get help from professionals)if it is very big you may need to attach several to a piece of plywood so that it can be able to hold the snake. Otherwise your snake will just slither off with the sticker still attached to it.

Ok, back to natural fly control.

Another tip is to buy a fly catchre trap in which you put some raw meat into the container with some water. You attch the lid and hang the trap up AWAY from your home. The flies will be attracted to the rotting meat and will get caught in the trap and will drown.

We have used this and it is VERY effective. Just remember to empty the trap and then refill with fresh meat and water. It doesn’t take a lot of meat and this trap can be used over and over. It is a easy, natural fly control that is low cost (cheap)

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Another Natural Mosquito Control…

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Trouble with mosquitoes?

If you want to control mosquitoes naturally here are some options:

First of all, like I already mentioned, chickens- you get all sorts of pest control while getting the bonuses of eggs and/or meat.

Use dunks. They are a natural mosquito control that rely on a natural bacteria to kill the larvae. They work. Start using them first thing in Spring whenever you have any standing water.

Get rid of all standing water that is not necessary

You can mix together some lemon amonia and a good squirt of lemon dish soap in a hose end sprayer. This will mix with water as it exits the end of your hose. You then spray all around your yard/home. This will help to keep mosquitoes away until it rains and then you will need to repeat the process.

I will be adding more natural mosquito and other pests controls soon so please bookmark this site and check back often.

Have something natural that works? Leave a comment and let us know. Thanks!

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