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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 coatedĀ  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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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, likeĀ 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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Mosquito control?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I don’t know about you but where we live is mosquito country. Right now the mosquitoes are so bad that you can barely go outside- even during the day.
Now, a few years ago we chicken sat.
‘What’s that’ you wonder?
Well a friend had us watch her chickens for 6 months.
We had never had chickens before so we had no idea what we were in for
We had taken care of them at her place for a few days at a time but this was a long period of time so she brought them over here to our place.
Well, not only was it a great experience but we found that by having chickens that our mosquito population went WAY DOWN.
We could actually go outside and enjoy ourselves.
For a time after the chickens went back home we still reapt the benefits by having little problems with mosquitoes but in recent times the mosquitoes have gotten worse again.
So, last year we decided that we wanted to get chickens of our own.
Having chickens has multiple benefits like:
less mosquitoes and other bad bugs
You get eggs and, if you want to, you get meat
You get fertilizer for your garden plants
They are better than some tv shows when it comes to entertainment
Well, we got 8 chickens last year and they were doing great until the raccoons realized that they were here.
By this January we were down to one last chicken from last year.
We had been trying to keep from getting too attached as we wee hoping to possibly use some for meat as meat prices in the stores is getting outrageous AND it seems like sometimes the meat isn’t as good and we wonder what all of the antibiotics and such are doing for not only the animals, the environment but for us when we eat the meat.
Farm fresh meat just seems like a better choice.
Anyway, sorry for the rant :0)
So, this Spring we got 5 more meat birds and 7 more dual purpose for meat and or eggs.
Now, the chickens that we got this Spring aren’t big enough to realize about eating the mosquitoes. They eat weeds, grass and some bugs but for some reason we aren’t yet seeing the big decrease in the mosquito population
We hope that they will soon start to eat away at this mosquito infestation.
I don’t know if it is more certain kinds of chickens that eat the mosquitoes better? I cannot remember what type our friend had. But, we have Barred Rocks, Americanna’s, Rhode Island Reds and the meat birds which I cannot remember at this time.

So, here we are swarmed by mosquitoes and waiting for the chickens instinct to eat mosquitoes to kick in- Will It?

Tomorrow we plan to give you some ways to keep mosquitoes from biting you and something else that will kill mosquitoes naturally for free.

Bookmark us and keep checking back as we have much more great info coming soon

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