Natural Ways to Get Rid of Lice
- Apply mayonnaise on your hair and cover it with a plastic shower cap to keep the mayonnaise from dripping. Leave the mayonnaise on for three hours. Then, remove the shower cap and shampoo the hair thoroughly. It may take two or more shampoos to get the hair clean. Take a fine toothed comb to get all the nits and lice out, section by section.
- If you don’t have mayonnaise, try applying vaseline. But to remove Vaseline from your hair, saturate the hair in baby oil, rub through the hair thoroughly and then squeeze out as much as you can. Then wash the hair.
- There is another treatment with vaseline. Put Vaseline on hair, and apply cap, leave on overnight. The next morning apply peanut butter to get the vaseline out. All lice and eggs will come out. It suffocates them.
- Wash your hair with vinegar. It will kill all the nits in two days. Apply coconut oil to your head after shampoo. Add ten to fifteen drops of tea tree oil into the shampoo bottle and wash hair with it.
- You can also use a vinegar wrap. Thoroughly wet a towel with a mixture of half vinegar and half water and wrap the head with the towel. Leave it on for one hour. And then wash your hair. Comb your hair to take out all lice and nits.
- Mix a 50:50 solution of mineral oil(such as baby oil) and vinegar. Massage it into the hair and cover for 1 hour with a shower cap. Then wash off with a shampoo. Comb out the deceased lice.
- Mix 10 drops of tea tree-oil to a new bottle of shampoo. Always use this solution when you shampoo your hair, to avoid lice from re-occuring.
- Completely soak your hair with olive oil and wrap in a towel for two hours. Rinse and wash as usual. Comb your hair with a fine toothed comb to remove eggs and lice. Repeat after 3-4 days.
- You can also buy a Tea Tree oil shampoo to wash your hair. And try buying this comb from your nearby Walmart, if this is available. This is called the LiceGuard Robi Comb. It is an electronic Lice Comb, that kills Lice without chemicals. Use it on dry hair. It costs around $ 22.00 (USD). But it’s worth it.
- Try using Denorex Extra Strength dandruff shampoo. The lice will easily fall off dead. But be sure to use the extra strength one.
- Make a natural lice shampoo. To a base of five teaspoons of Pure Olive Carrier Oil Or Pure Coconut Carrier Oil, add 5 drops of Tea Tree Essential Oil, 5 drops of Rosemary Essential Oil, 5 drops of Lavender Essential Oil, 5 drops of Peppermint Essential Oil and 5 drops of Eucalyptus Essential Oil. Add a small amount of regular shampoo to the mixture and apply this all over the hair. Leave this on for an hour and cover with a shower cap or towel. Rinse the hair and shampoo the hair. Then comb out all the lice and nits after using this mixture. Comb the hair with a nit comb, that you can buy in the drug store, next to the lice shampoos. However be careful not to use this mixture on babies or very small kids. Do not use it on pregnant women or people with high blood pressure either.
- Never share your personal belongings with a lice-infested person. Do not share bed, comb, towels or clothes with such a person.