Excellent Home Remedies For Head Lice

Excellent Home Remedies For Head Lice

Garlic
The strong fragrance of garlic can suffocate lice, ultimately killing them.
Grind eight to 10 garlic cloves into a paste and mix in two to three teaspoons of lime juice. Apply the mixture thoroughly onto the scalp. Leave it on for a half an hour and then rinse the hair thoroughly with hot water.
Alternatively, you can make a thick paste by combining fresh garlic juice with some cooking oil, lemon extract, green tea and some shampoo and conditioner. Coat the hair thoroughly with the paste and cover your scalp with a towel or shower cap for about a half an hour. Then wash your hair with your regular shampoo. Repeat this remedy on a weekly basis for one to two months.

Baby Oil
For another easy natural treatment for head lice, you will need baby oil, laundry detergent and some white vinegar. It is believed that baby oil, too, helps suffocate the head lice.
Apply some baby oil on your hair and then comb your hair slowly so that lice start falling from your head.
Then wash your hair with laundry detergent and hot water.
Before bed, put some white vinegar on your hair and cover your head with a shower cap or towel. Leave it on overnight.
In the morning, wash your hair with regular shampoo and then apply some conditioner.
Repeat this process for at least three to four days to get positive results.

Olive Oil
Olive oil will effectively smother and kill head lice.
Apply any type of olive oil to your hair generously before going to bed. Put a shower cap or towel on your head to keep the oil on your hair overnight. In the morning, comb out the tiny parasites and then wash your hair with some herbal shampoo containing tea tree oil.
Another option is to mix one-half cup of olive oil with one-half cup of conditioner and add some liquid soap to it. Apply this solution onto your hair and leave it on for an hour. Then, rinse out your hair and apply conditioner. Comb your hair thoroughly to remove the dead lice. Repeat this remedy again after a week to get best results.

Tea Tree Oil
It has natural insecticide property which makes it as an effective treatment for head lice. But make sure that not to apply tea tree oil directly on your scalp without diluting it.

Remedy – 1:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of tea tree oil
1 oz of natural shampoo
3 tablespoons of coconut oil or olive oil
Process:

Take all the above said ingredients and mix it well to form a fine solution
Now apply this solution gently all over the hair
Cover your hair with towel or plastic shower cap
Let it sit for about 30 minutes without disturbing it
Rinse it off with warm water
At last comb your hair when it is still wet to remove the dead lice
Remedy – 2:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of Tea tree oil
1/2 teaspoon of lavender oil
Process:

Mix both the ingredients properly
Apply this oil on your scalp directly
These oils act as repellents and keeps the head lice away from your hair.
Use only few drops of oil regularly for treating the head lice

Neem
Neem when oil applied will have pungent odor and which helps to inhibit the effect of eating and biting behavior of the lice and at last it makes the lice to die.

Remedy – 1: (Neem Leaves)

Process:

Have a handful of neem leaves
Place in a pan and boil them in water for about 10 minutes
Boil up to the green essence of the leaves disperse in water
Now use this water to rinse your hair
Repeat the process at least twice a week, until you feel that your hair is free from lice
Remedy – 2: (Neem Oil)

Process:

Take neem oil into your palms
Then apply it without diluting to your hair
Leave it for 15 minutes and comb your hair to remove the lice and nits.
Now wrap your hair with plastic disposable shower cap and leave it for overnight.
Next day morning, rinse your hair with shampoo
Repeat the procedure daily for at least 2 weeks to remove the head lice.

Hair dryers
In a study, hot-air methods proved highly effective in killing nits, but less so in eradicating live lice. An old-fashioned bonnet dryer killed nearly 89% of nits but just 10% of lice, while a blow dryer using direct heat got rid of nearly 98% of nits and 55% of lice. So use a hair dryer on freshly washed hair to increase your chance of eradicating the little buggers.

But never use hot air after applying a chemical lice treatment. Some may contain flammable ingredients.

Distilled White Vinegar
After you’ve finished the oil treatment, wash hair with shampoo (it may take a couple applications to get all the oil out). Towel dry hair, then completely saturate hair with vinegar, making sure it reaches the scalp (if there are already open sores on the head, you may want to skip this step, since it could burn). Leave the vinegar on for 15 minutes, then wash with shampoo. The vinegar dissolves the “glue” that holds the nits to the hair, making them much easier to comb out.

Coconut Oil. We’ve already stocked up on coconut oil because of all the benefits, right? Well, add this one to the list. Coconut oil is deadly to lice and will kill the adult lice as well as the nymphs as they hatch. Work a couple teaspoons of oil into damp hair, making sure to work it into the scalp. It will make the hair soft and shiny, and it smells fantastic (which is good, considering you just doused the hair in vinegar). After you have eradicated the lice, you can continue to use the coconut oil as a hair treatment, or simply dab a couple drops behind the ears to prevent future infestation.

Comb, comb, comb
Warning this step takes forever. With small kids, we found it was easiest to put on a movie to keep them still. For a detailed description of how to use a lice comb, go here. This should occur every day to every other day for at least 2 weeks.

Almonds
Crush 8 to 10 almonds. Add 2 to 3 teaspoons of lime juice to it. Apply on your scalp and leave it on for half an hour. Finally, wash your hair with shampoo.

Salt
Another good choice to eliminate head lice is salt. Mix ¼ cup each of vinegar and salt. Now, wet your hair slightly and spray this mixture. Cover your head with a shower cap for approximately 2 hours. Wash and apply conditioner. Repeat this procedure in every 3 days to get rid of lice in an easier way.

Petroleum Jelly
Before going to bed, apply a thick layer of petroleum jelly on your scalp. Wrap your head firmly with a towel or shower cap. Leave it on all through the night. Next morning, remove the petroleum jelly using baby oil. Thoroughly comb your hair, and repeat this remedy daily until the problem is solved.

Mayonnaise
The oil present in mayonnaise suffocates the head lice. Put full-fat mayonnaise generously onto your scalp. Now, place a towel or a shower cap over your hair and leave it for 8 hours or let it sit overnight. Shampoo and comb your hair. Repeat this process for a week on a daily basis.