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.
