For lice spray evenly and saturate rubbing alcohol in hair. make sure to cover eyes and mouth this is very strong smelling.Leave on for 25 min. Kills all lice and nits.Comb hair with lice combs and wash with coconut suave or V05 shampoo.

Wild Growth Hair Oil.(http://www.hairgrownfast.com/).. I originally bought this product for me to grow my hair, but I soon found out they kill lice (not the eggs though). This product is used on adults and kids for obtaining healthy hair. And it’s an oil something that has been used to smother the lice.

You can also buy this on Ebay. Let me know if this works for you.

Aloe Vera Leaves

Take a leaf from the aloe vera plant, peel away the thorns (easy with a potatoe peeeler. Place it in the Food Processer to form a gel like substance. Place on hair for 30 min. then comb through with metal lice combs. Also add about a teaspoon of this gel to your regular shampoo. The theory behind it is that it leaves your scalp with a coating which is unpleasant for lice, so they stay away. In the process you condition your hair because it is safe and sometimes recommend for your hair. This a common remedy in Puerto Rico.

Ivory dish liquid works wonders. It will kill lice and eggs. But it works only with the dish liquid NOT the bar soap.

i recently found that my daughter had come home with lice,it was days before my next payday and had no money for the lice shampoo or anything else.in my search around the house for olive oil i came across my dog shampoo.it said kills fleas ticks and LICE i was amazed i didnt know my dogs shampoo would kill lice too.so i used it as i had nothing else and guess what…lice free of course you still want to repeat it in a weak and make sure you get the eggs out and rinse very well too you might smell like a dog but you wont have lice.i used the adams flea and tick shampoo

My 13 y/o son had a BIG infestation before he bothered to come out of his room (summer break from school) to tell me. He was busy playing computer games, watching tv and reading for the last 2 weeks. I brought him to the doctor it was so bad and got a script for Elimite. I used it on Friday and combed out tons of live and dead lice. I combed his hair twice a day on Saturday and Sunday again with quite a few live baby lice and eggs. My 4 y/o was found to have a half dozen eggs in her hair this morning. THAT IS IT! This means war. I got olive oil and placed several drops of tea tree oil in it. I then placed it on their heads and wraped their heads up with saran wrap and then a cheep shower cap. I left it on them all day long today and then washed their hair with cheap Prell shampoo (it is good for greasy hair) and sprinkled their heads with salt (to help scrap the hair and scalp clean). I then did a brief vinegar rinse to help “de glue” the eggs and then a clean water rinse. I combed maybe 2 eggs off of my daughter and a ton of dead baby lice and eggs off from my son. The key here is they were DEAD. Even with the strong chemicals they were still alive. I plan to wash their hair daily and comb twice a day (all while changing the linens and washing in hot water along with the towels every day). I think there is light at the end of the tunnel! Yippee!!

My niece come to stay with me this summer. And guess what she , brung some guest. She brung super lice. we tried two differnt kind of lice treatments. None of them worked. so we asked around about some stuff to kill lice and nits. But you have to use a fine tooth come to get them out. And it will make the nits almost a clear color.

well my daughter sierenna came home with lice and i tried evrything in the book and guess what the lice kept getting more and more populated so i decided to put olive oil on her hail i soaked her hair and bought lice combs which come speerated i highly recomend the rid metal red comb works wonders one short just for lice long just for nit and eggs well after going through with each comb i took each and every one faboulous shes never gotten reinfessted since and if she does i will surley use this instead of wasting good money on useless shampoos over the top that dont work hope it work im pretty sure it will oh you can subsitute it with vasilene but i strongly recomend these two only

I advice u 2 put olive/coconut oil regularly until d scratching gets a lil less and then u cont. 2 put it BUT u should comb it with a small-toothed comb & put it till d lice and eggs dont completely cum out !!!

My daughter got lice for a neighborhood friend! I’m having a hec of a time getting her clean! she has very very thick hair and we tried dawn kills them, but they keep coming back! I look about every other day and seems to be nits! Could they be dead nits and I just missed them the first time! Ahhh….I just want to shave our heads! She is the only one in the house, I think that has it! any suggestions on how I can find what is infected>? I’ve done everthing to the book

I tried the medicated shampoo’s four times and the lice were still not dead. I followed the rules (ex. sterilizing brushes combs, clips, elastics, washing towels, bedding and clothing with hot water, vacuming the beds, couches and floors)and nothing was working. I told the pharamasist i was ready to pull my hair out because nothing working. The pharamasist told me that if worse comes to worse use hair dye. Well, i picked up a hair dye that matched my daughters hair colour and dyed her hair. Sure enough the lice are gone. It works!!!!

We’ve had infestations twice, the first time particularly badly. A combination of neem oil and tea tree oil mixed into a cheap conditioner worked very well for us. The neem oil kills the lice and any that manage to survive are incapacitated and can’t feed. I’ve never found a live louse when I wet comb after applying neem/tea tree oil, everything I comb out is dead. Saturate the head and scalp, leave on for a few minutes and then wet comb in very small sections using a lice comb. Wipe the comb on white paper towels after each pass, you’ll be able to see what you’re combing out. The key is to be VERY persistent, doing a wet comb every other day until you’ve gone at least a week without seeing any eggs or nits. I also bagged all the stuffed animals that my daughter slept with for two weeks. It took about a month to get rid of the most severe of our infestations

I know you are looking for home rememdies…but I have none. I have very long hair and I have had it since I was a child, so of course being in school I caught it numerous times. I tried different cooking oils and generic lice killing treatment…it didn’t work. If you are broke you might as well just save up a few dollars for the treatment instead of wasting your time. You see lice has a life cycle that kills! Just buy the rid 1, 2, 3 step. It is about $10 to $15. BUT it has enough to treat the whole family, which you need to do in order to get it gone…even if you have short hair. It has the combs which are essential for getting rid of the lice…you must get it all out. It also has enough for a second treatment…this should be done 10 days later, NOT 7. Search the life cylce of lice on the net! The life cycle of lice can prevent it from being effective after only 7 days. But it does come with an “in between” gel that you can use before the ten days to clear out any that have hatched. And last it has the spray, to put on your carpet, furniture, upholstry, and anything else that can not be washed in the machine.
I could go into further detail of why each and every step is important but it would take forever! When you buy the Rid it has all kinds of info inside the box that explains everything!

I wanted to add…if you still want to try a home remedy be sure to follow it up and USE THE COMB!!!

One more thing…I read above about the olive oil and mayo…tried it and it did not work… sorry

Suave makes a coconut shampoo that will get rid of and prevent lice. I battled them for months when my daughter was in kindergarten, then someone told me about this. Now this is the only shampoo she uses and we have had not had any more lice. She is now in the 5th grade. Every year I hear about lice at her school and daycare but she has not had any.

Hair dye works, I have had lice more then once and it always gets rid of it.

My children’s pediatrician recommended mineral oil, and vinegar, 1 cup of each mixed together, and worked in to the hair, cover and leave on for about 20 minutes, works great! Don’t forget to do the linen though, most people do. That is extremely important as well……thanx for all your methods. What a great informative site…thank you all!

Anybody know if baby oil works for lice?I tried it once but didn;t do a follow up for my daughter but it seemed to loosen the eggs when combed out.

For years I worked first in many pet stores and then became a veterinary technician in Louisiana. We had huge flea and tick infestations. A trick I learned, which helps with head lice as well, is to take a big box of 20 Mule Team Borox.

Sprinkle it not only on your carpet, but pick up all of your couch cushions and put it under those as well. Take a broom and brush it into the carpet thoroughly. Let it sit for forty eight hours and them vacuum up.

The alkalinity in the Borox will dessicate the lice and kill them by way of dehydration. I have personally seen it work in my Grandmother’s home where the fleas were so bad that you were covered from the knees down with hundreds and hundreds within minutes.

This remedy is non-toxic to both children and animals. I have two children, three cats and a dog and of course a husband. None of them have ever suffered any ill affects from this treatment.

I am still trying many things for the lice on our bodies, but I will say that this is a perfect way to get rid of fleas and ticks and lice in your carpets and furniture.

You can go to the 20 Mule Team Borox website and read about it. It has helped us tremendously in preventing reinfestation once we have cleared up ourselves. Even if you just have fleas in your home, don’t buy the expensive powdered products in the pet store to sprinkle. They have the same ingredients!

I hope this helps someone. Good luck!

Quit spending money at the drug store! Apply Sauve coconut shampoo on dry hair and the live lice die right away. Use small tooth comb and keep combing through the shampoo, but be sure to rinse the comb each time under hot water. Rinse out shampoo and towel dry. Then apply straight vinegar to hair but be very careful not to get into eyes, wrap hair up tightly in a dry towel and wait 30 minutes. Rinse vinegar out and shampoo again with the coconut shampoo to get the vinegar smell out of the hair. Wa-La, nits and lice all gone. Use Sauve coconut shampoo on a regular bases to keep them away.

We tried the drug store stuff on my 13 year old daughter three times in a row to get rid of the little pests nothing worked. Called the doctor they recommended we cover her head with Vasoline over night. It took over three weeks to get it out washing her hair with Dawn dish soap.

She was re-infested this year at 14. In fact she found this website. We did the olive oil with tea tree oil, let it set for an hour washed it out with Dawn dish soap, rinsed with white vinegar and combed with a nit comb. We have followed up with tea tree oil & neeme leaf oil in our regular shampoo’s. So far no return of the buggers, it’s been 8 weeks!

I haven’t had any luck. My 7 year old has lice for the fourth time. Last school year they were bad enough I had to shave his head. It is too cold to do that now. Our doctor had recommended the tea tree oil. I am also going to try the coconut shampoo. I know for a fact that the RID 1-2-3 kit did not work. I have treated his head ever 10 days for the last three months. Nothing. I have hair that is just past my shoulders. I recently started having my head itch. Yes, I caught it too. I have thrown out hats, toys, pillows, brushes, etc. What else can be done?

First take all combs brushes and hair ties in almost boiling water wash all lines spray house with Lysol and vacuum. then apply tea tree oil to hair and leave on for 15 min. rinse and apply vinegar use a nit comb to remove eggs. for preventative measures add a tbsp of tea tree oil to shampoo bottle and use every day. I have also heard dandruff shampoo and coconut shampoo will keep them away.

You can use a very thick conditioner called cholesterol. Costs about $2.50 at the dollar stores or Walmart. Put it in dry hair put a plastic cap over it and leave on for a couple of hours. Rinse and run comb through hair…….works every time. Also if you use any kind of vo5 shampoo and conditioner regularly and blow dry hair everyday this also helps prevent them.

My grand daughters have just went though this at school. The nurse at the school said to use mouth wash to soak the hair and put on a shower cap for a few hours. Then rinse out with water. Then use vinegar to help loosen the eggs from the hair. So far so good

I am so thankful that I happened on this site! My now 9 year old daughter has been batteling lice on & off for almost 2 years! We have tried EVERY over the counter remedy there is – NOTHING works! I have done the spray on furniture, carpets, mattresses, etc. I have bagged EVERY stuffed animal, hat, pillow, etc in my house. I have washed, in hot water, all linens, towels, comforters, etc.

I am telling you she gets reinfested every couple of months. I have nit picked that poor childs head until she cried! We have even gone as far as putting her hair up every single day! We are now trying the mayo & plastic bag and I’m going out first thing tomorrow and buying Suave coconut shampoo.

I PRAY these home remedies work b/c NOTHING else has!

My daughter has healice again for the third time! Last time i tried just about everything until i heard to get tea tree oil rub it really good in the hair (as close to the scalp as possible) and then let it soak for about 10 min. then wash it out. Then put vinegar on the hair and let soak for about 30-40 minutes.After wards wash hair really good and then blow dry it. It helped in my daughter’s hair tremendesly! So after i got rid of the lice i put a couple cap full’s of the tee trea oil in the shampoo bottle that way everytime i wash her hair (and mine) then that would treat it and keep her hair up to date. I still try to blow dry her hair too bc that’s supposed to keep the lice away and plus if she did have it later on down the road and i didn’t know it then it also kill’s the lice too. But after a couple month’s i stopped the tee trea oil and blow drying and she has it again. This time im going to do the same thing but im trying vinegar too bc i heard that it’s supposed to kill the lice automatically. The only question i have is im still trying to figure out what else i can use to spray on my furniture and bedding so i won’t have to wash it everyday ect. I want something besides the bedding spray that you can buy at wal-mart. Like something that you can use from home. If anyone has any idea’s then please let me know!! Thx and i hope that the advice that i gave to ya’ll will work!

I wish I was like Mary Poppins and could just snap my finger and be gone with these dirty bugs!! I thought my kids were invincible to this bug. My sister said that my youngest daughter could spend the night, then she informed me that maybe she should not let her spend the night because her kids had lice. Well, I thought, “Oh, I am sure my daughter won’t get them!” Ha! I guess I was a true idiot on that one. Well, my sister tried everything on the shelf at Wal-Mart, spending nearly $200 in the process. (If not, more) You know, buying bottle after bottle.

Well, a nurse at her pediatricians office told her about the olive oil. She tried that about a month ago, and she found one live lice on her daughters head last week. “Where there is one, there will be more”. I did the olive oil about a week after she did, guess what, I checked againg yesterday and my daughter has “several”. It is like it did not work. I am trying something a little different. Tonight, I “Nit Picked” her head. Oh goodness, she is infested. The comb brought up at least 20 eggs every time. (Maybe not every time, but there were ALOT!!!) So, yes, I know this is not a natural remedy, but I had a bottle of RID from last month. I combed through her hair, then washed with the RID. Afterwards, I rinsed the RID, then immediately washed with Suave Coconut Shampoo. I combed through her hair again to get up as many eggs (There were not many) Then I put olive oil on her hair and combed through several times (Still not seeing any live louse or many eggs) I wrapped her head in plastic wrap, then covered with a plastic cap. She is going to sleep all night with the olive oil.

Tomorrow, I am going to wash the oil out again with the Suave Coconut Shampoo several times to get the oil out. Then I will rinse her hair and work in vinegar and cover again with plastic for about an hour. Before rinsing that out, I am going to go through and “Nit Pick” again before rinsing. When I am done there, I am going to let her hair “air dry”. Once that is done, I don’t care if it takes me 24 hours or longer, I am going to go through her hair strand by strand until I have all the nits off there. So, my point to this long, drawn out episode is this: Since the bugs are getting resistant to the OTC stuff (and I am hearing it is dangerous anyway) and alot of other remedies dont work, I feel that the only way to get RID of these stupid creatures is to have a little bit of nail on the end of your finger to scrape off the nits. The comb does not remove all of them.

So, go ahead and treat with all the oil and vinegar and tea tree oils, in which I am optomostic that they will “help”, use your fingernail and the nit comb to remove them all and problem solved!! (I Hope!) But really, if nothing else works, take the time with your little one. They will think they are the luckiest in the world to get that much undivided attention, and comb all of the lice out first, then use the good ‘ol fingernail and nit comb to remove the nits. I see it like this, if there are no louse or nits, there are no lice!!!

if vinegar kills lice and loosens eggs,why not use vinegar in spray bottle to spray furniture carpet ect… i also washed all the clothes and bedding in it,bright fresh and clean,a new addition to my family ,i use vinegar for everything to windows,to dishes, to laundry, to carpets,to kids heads,even for cooking,a must for every household…

also as above, baking soda does good for all above things,to include white teeth….

My 2 daughters (with hair down to their waist), were constantly getting head lice in elementary school, I tried everything. Almost giving up I tried dog shampoo, it worked great.

The other day my grandson was visiting his uncle and got head lice at a wedding, my daughter-in-law was beside herself, my son said not to worry, just get the dog shampoo and wash his hair like usual. My grandson has hair down to his waist(he is only 3yrs old, his parents aren’t going to cut it until he goes to school, they are donating his hair to “Locks of Love”, for the children cancer patients).

The dog or puppy shampoo works great, and believe me “They won’t try to chase cars or bite you”

After reading all the tips on here I was curious about the dog shampoo remedy. I went to look up the ingredients, they are the same as the over the counter lice treatment…

Ok ive NEVER had lice in my house in the whole 11yrs my kids been in school(considering this is my oldest!). However this year 2009 after i was taking care of neighborhood kids, and the fact that the school had an out-break twice (so they said?), our house was TURNED UPSIDE DOWN in PANIC!! Im already aware of RID and NIX shampoos im upset reading now whats in them, my concern is this: If you’ve treated your children with these products and 3 more times you find Nits, how do you know if they are dead or not? I now have my daughter treated 3 times with these products, found NO BUGS on two last occasions but we are in FULL PANIC mode as to how??? Dont you need the BUGS to have eggs or are these dead but were left behind?? PLEASE HELP because i take care of neighbor children and we seem to keep passing this threat, of course we are all friends but for Gods sake what do i do now?? Im not VISUALLY capable of seeing these NITS, so its difficult for me to know if they are gone from each treatment so im very frustrated, even crying but for the only year to have ever experienced this situation im getting myself so sick about it. WHAT DO I DO NOW? HOW DO I KNOW IF THEY ARE DEAD OR EVEN A THREAT? Im going tomorrow to buy this coconut shampoo ill try anything at this point just to make the WHOLE THING GO AWAY FOR GOOOOOOD!!!! Nobody else in my house has it?? Yeah this is why we dont understand? And what can i use to treat furniture, beds, carpets to not re-infest our family ?

if the nits are within about 6 millimeters they are alive if not they are dead

All you need is perm solution apply perm solution to hair only leave the solution on for 5 minutes then wash it out be sure to put the neturalizer on it afterwards this works great no more lice and they have not came back

Use dog Flea shampoo it works the best. Hertz flea shampoo. My daughter got lice years ago. We had some neighbor children bring it in our house. I shampoo the neighbors childrens hair also. It got rid of them. The Vet said it wouldn’t harm there head and it would get rid of the lice. So thats what we used.

Mayo and plastic cap for 4 hrs then rinse mayo out,then apply vinegar for about ten mins wrapped in a towel then rinse again. After that I took a knit comb through his thick hair still wet, had him wash hair with coconut shampoo dried it on high heat combed it once more and gone the went.

First of all, I am a Black woman who thought that Black people couldn’t get lice….Well I did! I have natural curly hair and I don’t like putting alot of chemicals such as hair grease in my hair because of how it feels and the texture. My 2 year who also has curly hair because he is biracial got it too. I bought the Walgreens brand of RID almost paying $40. It didn’t work. Of course, I didn’t use the nit/lice comb because imagine trying to put a comb through my hair. The next day I still saw lice in my sons head. By the way my husband who is white never got it. So I went to the grocery store and bought vinegar, tea tree oil, Suave coconut shampoo, and rosemary determined. I washed everything with hot water and spray EVERYTHING with the bedding spray. I put the rosemary under my pillow and every other day washed our hair with vinegar and then Suave shampoo mix with tea tree oil used conditioner to be able to use the nit/lice comb (VERY IMPORTANT) and put hair grease in our hair. I found a lit grease called DOO GRO. It took about a week to get rid of them…so far so good. BUT thank you ALL for your helpful hints. My husband just shaved the other boys heads. The reason why Black people usually don’t get lice is because it’s difficult for the eggs to attach to the hair with grease and oil on it. So I recommend using oil or grease daily to prevent them from coming back. AGAIN…THANKS SO MUCH..

ok, after reading everyones tips, i’ve been battling these little bugs for a awhile now and tried everything… most effective was mayo, thick layers of mayo in the hair wraped in plastic wrap leave in for around 2-3 hours, then wash and condition as you would normaly and towel dry, the lice were falling out of my daughters head as i was combing it, they were all dead, you must repeat this in 4-7 days unless you want to spend hours getting every little egg out and you must comb threw it at least once a day or they will not go away they will just keep coming back

MY SON JUSTCAME DOWN WITH LICE.A GOOD HOME REMEDIES IS MOUTH-WASH AND DANDRUFF SHAMPOO WITH ZINC IN IT .WASH HAIR FIRST WITH SHAMPOO RISE .THEN BUT MOUTH-WASH IN FOR 10 MINUTES.RISE OUT THEN HAVE FUN AND COMBSIT.AS RUBBING ACHOL.AND WHITE VINGER TOGETHER AND SPRAY BEDDING ,AND WASH EVER THING REAL GOOD.RETREAT EVERY DAY UNTIL GONE.

I wish I had one. What works best- Dog Shampoo, Coconut shampoo, Olive oil, Tea Tree oil, Dying your hair, Medicated products like RID, Mayo,
I’m at my wits end and need help. Has anybody ever had a professional come to their home or go to their business to have lice removed?

Thanks for any help I can get.

Me and my twin sister both got lice from our best friend in the fall, she had been infested for weeks by then and we had had many sleepovers with her, resulting in me having a bad case, and my sister a smaller one. We got rid of it a few weeks later using Rich’s Best Kept Secrets Lice Shampoo which suffocates the lice (not the nits though) and we did many many hours of nit-picking and combing using the metal lice comb. We find that it takes at least a month to be completely lice free, and every week in that month we shampoo with Best Kept Secrets and comb and check often. The comb has best results when the hair is wet, and it removes both nits, and lice!! The problem is we keep getting infested because we don’t tell our friends, and they get it and once we finally get rid of the bugs, we often get reinfested from our friends. So check often, tell your friends and wash and comb and wear your hair back too. We will also try the home remedies cause they sound successful! If we are desperate, we have heard of a CVS brand that kills both the lice and nits. Thanks for all the suggestions!!

I know you people out there with children that have lice well my daughter has it and i hand pick it but once i found lice freee!! it worked so well theres shampoo put it on then theres a shower cap that goes with the lice freee package and you put it on there head for more than an hour than you take it off rinse your hair out with hot water and make sure all the soap is gone and get the medal comb and brush through there hair then this is optional you can look through the hair and see if there is more or just keep it the way it is…and then do the treatment again in the next 10 days and do the same thing you did the time you first got the product!! if it didnt work email me at…angel_larsen97@live.com

THANK YOU and YOUR WELCOME

I use the Suave coconut conditioner I load my 6 yr olds hair with it put a shower cap and have her sleep with it on. The Rid and over the counter lice shampoos dont work. Mayo also works or anything oily cause it suffocates the live bugs. Im trying to find something for the furniture, I don’t have any rugs but my daughter sleeps on the couch ALOT the spray is expensive and doesn’t seem to work. I wash blankets and pillows daily. The dryer is great you can put pillows and stuffed animals in I do it for at least an hour then I bag them up till the lice is completely gone. Im gonna try the vinegar in the shampoo bottle I never heard that till I read it here. I have 4 kids and they love my 6yr olds hair my 13yr old daughter never gets it and has hair to her butt, guess they like some peoples hair more than others. I got alot of good ideas here thank you.

It’s all about the comb you use. Those blue & black ones that come in the boxes of medicine DO NOT WORK. You must use the metal ones. And yes, your child will probably cry, but its a very important tool for the removal of lice. The pharmacist also told me that you have to comb out the eggs & nits everyday for 3 weeks. Time consuming, but a must. My daughter has it yet again, so its to the bathtub we go with the vinegar, listerine & comb. Not my idea of a good time. Good luck to those with the bugs, I know it sucks.

We tried otc Rid type products, and they didn’t work. I used vinegar and listerine and they did better. I used, also, anything thick and creamy (mayo, conditioners, gels, etc.). It all worked ok, but was still such a hassle after having to clean everything else everyday.I finally started using Denorex with coal tar and tea tree conditioner and they were gone. Put it on and let it sit. It seems like the bugs and eggs both came out. This works for us. We also use it as a preventative. I still will sit and make sure all eggs are out of the kids hair. Of course, vacuum the furniture and mattresses, and I use dog flea spray on them, too. Dryer for everything, every morning. Changing shirts after treatment helps, too. And dress up clothes or stuffed animals that can’t go in the dryer go in a big trash bag tied up until they are gone in our house for atlest 2 weeks. I have always heard to bag them up for 30 days. There are also some more natural shampoo remedies out there online that work good, too. I think, if it happens again, I’m going to try the flea shampoo.

My daughter about 13 years old, had lice (got it from cousins) and we couldn’t seem to get rid of it!! We tried Mayo and it worked, but it came back. She found a brush that I didn’t wash and used it, and got it again. We got rid of it, and then she said she didn’t have it.. I walked in on her friend checking her hair, and found dead (about 10) bugs laying on the table. Mayo again, didn’t seem to work, now we are gonna try dog shampoo, wish us luck!!

All my love,
Cindy

well 3 of us went to my cousins house and i guess we got the lice there when we got back all 5 of us had lice and then we had to go to the Landry mat and wash allllll of our clothes and our so it wont get worse so then we went to walmart and got egg & nit combing gel and it has worked great so far so wish us luck that it will work and we well get rid of it

thank you

so muck and if u have lice u might want to try it if i wore u

I get my step daughter for the summer’s well, she has been bringing her little unwanted friends with her. The week before I got her, her mother used a regular kit, that didn’t do it. Then she used this thyme shampoo. When I picked her up, she was infested! I immediatley did the mayo, for 24 hours, wrapped it. Thought we got them boogers. Nope…finally I did a jar of vaseline, wrapped it for 2 hours. washed it out. Then I did the Listerine (she said it even gave her relief from the itching on her head),2 hours,washed it out. Then I did the vinegar, 2 hours washed it out. Blew dry her hair, then hot combed it with a flat iron. They say that they can’t survive 110 degrees. I picked out anything that was left. It’s been 24 hours. She hasn’t itched. I even sprayed the house with a concotion of water, vineagar, tea tree oil, and listerine. I will keep you posted. But I am going to go through the house with the salt and see how that works…

I get my step daughter for the summer’s well, she has been bringing her little unwanted friends with her. The week before I got her, her mother used a regular kit, that didn’t do it. Then she used this thyme shampoo. When I picked her up, she was infested! I immediatley did the mayo, for 24 hours, wrapped it. Thought we got them boogers. Nope…finally I did a jar of vaseline, wrapped it for 2 hours. washed it out. Then I did the Listerine (she said it even gave her relief from the itching on her head),2 hours,washed it out. Then I did the vinegar, 2 hours washed it out. Blew dry her hair, then hot combed it with a flat iron. They say that they can’t survive 110 degrees. I picked out anything that was left. It’s been 24 hours. She hasn’t itched. I even sprayed the house with a concotion of water, vineagar, tea tree oil, and listerine. I will keep you posted. But I am going to go through the house with the salt and see how that works…I combined all of the tips from other sites and will take tips from this one to rid my house and step daughter.

i have tried crisco grease and a plastic bag over night and dish soap to wash out it will sufficate the bugs

I have a friend that recently had a child come home with this horrid problem… so i went over to help..(shower cap…gel and hairspray on my head and all! LOL) i still washed/dryed/sprayed all of my things here at the house for precaution…. but we did the rid stuff and we were still finding things ALIVE! hours later… i dont recommned wasting your money….. I have written down many of the tips here and i will pass them onto her …wish us luck and i want to thank you all for your advice…. so many times this is something people dont want to talk about so they keep it to themselves and that doesnt help anyone… reading all of this has been awesome! she will appreciate any and all advice! me too! cause i am itching just thinking about it! i always do when someone brings up a creepy crawly. We havent dealt with it in our house for over 8 years and back then …no one wanted to talk to you if it was the subject.

We have been fighting the head lice problem now for 3 months straight.
My grand daughter gets the nits, we comb it out etc. then within the next 7-10 days she gets it again. Her doctor suggested we switch day
care places. The daycare swears that she is the only child infested in the whole place. I find that hard to believe. One day we spent
5 hours pulling nits out by our fingernails. Any suggestions on what
else we can do. We’ve tried Rid, Nix, Equate Lice Shampoo, Dollar General, mayonnaise (which worked the best). What is an easier way to comb out the nits? We already cut her hair short. But it keeps coming back every 7-10 days. Please help. Thanks, Lisa

What ever u do DO NOT spend the money on the robi comb!!! I paid almost 50 dollars for it, and when useing it on my grandaughter she kept telling me that it was shocking her. I thought she was saying that because it was a hot day and she wanted to play in the pool. After fighting with her for a half hour I gave up and told her to play and I would do the comb out later. After she went outside I started doing my hair. Boy did I feel like I was the worst Mema in the world when I got zapped as soon as the comb touched my damp hair from sweating. After I calmed down, I promised her we will never use that comb again. I always use the olive oil but it is so hard to get the oil out when we are done. Now that she is a pre teen and will be more embarresed to have oily hair for a few days, if she gets them again I’m going to try the dog flea shampoo. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that when I had used the flea spray on the furniture. Oh well live and learn.
Good Luck to all who are fighting the buggers!

I have been fighting with these tiny little creatures for to long, Rid and Nix does not work, I had even ordered this shampoo and conditioner called X-Pel well that does not work, I have done a lot of reading so I think I am going to try the whole tea tree oil,neehm oil I think that is what is called, the suave cocanut shampoo and the vinegar now my only question is what will work on carpeting and furniture I really don’t want to have to go back out and buy the spray especially when I don’t think it is really helping any suggestions. PLEASE IN NEED OF HELP!!!!!

cat shampoo has a lice killing agent in it, dog shampoo does not. And tea tree oil in the shampoo only “stuns” them long enough for you to pick them out. I reccommend hand picking them and sticking them to a lint roller so they dont move. Ive had no luck with the combs…

Ok so Ive read tons and tond of stuff. I’ve tried Tea tree oil in the coconut shampoo, didnt work. Tried the stupid rid/nix crap, that didnt work. Used mayo in the hair for 3 hrs, washed it out, put in vinegar for 2 hours, washed it out. Still didnt work. Its been one hell of a battle with these stupid things. But after tons and tons of research, this is what Im trying now… I went to Wal Mart, and bought the off brand of the Tgel shampoo (with coal tar), and in the shampoo/conditioner aisle found this tub of pure coconut oil, and Hollywood beauty tea tree oil (that also has soybean oil, witamin E, carrot extract, aloe vera extract, rose oil, peanut oil, almond oil, and mentholatom oil) in it, and I mixed that in with the shampoo. Then I got a bottle of leave in conditioner SPRAY and put some tea tree stuff in it as well. Im gonna wash hair with the shampoo, condition with coconut conditioner, towel dry the hair and put a little of the coconut oil in it, and top it off with the spray in conditioner concoction Ive made as a preventative and a cure. With as much as Iver read, all of these ingredients are things that will kill headlice and nits, and also prevent them from coming as most thing they cant stand the smell of.. My thought for the concoction is that the tea tree oil well it is supposed to kill them, as with the TGEL shampoo stuff. The other ingredients in the tea tree oil has the stuff they cant stand the smell of, also it has aloe vera extract (which is supposed to help comb stuff out I guess) and the menthol is whats in the listerine everyone uses.. Hope this helps those out there. Ill post again in a week or so and let you know how its working… Good luck to all…

hi everyone I have been having the same problem since this summer. I believe the complex I live in has been infested with lice some kids have shaved heads and it is just awful! School started neighbour have spent hours upon hours picking out our kids. I am going insane!!! I never had lice as a kid and my daughters are 5 and 6 they never had it before and now all of a sudden they got it. I have tried washing their har with dish soap and then treating them with Nix and Kwellada lice shampoo. I also tired just tea tree oil and nothing worked I read online about the listerine,coconut shampoo & conditioner,vinegar,and denorex shampoo and flea comb. I tried a remedy tonight im not sure if it worked yet but I will keep you posted. I did notice that with the coconut conditioner the live bugs were falling out in the bath tub and the eggs (not all) turned blue with the listerine and it definitley made them easier to see! I put baby oil in my daughters hair for the night im going to see if that helps the situation. I also sprayed with Lysol and bagged there toys and washed all bedding and vacumed, Im going to do it again tommorow just to be safe and wash their coats as well. Im going to vacume the car and the seats as well I want this nightmare over with. I will definitley post on how it all works out!!!

leave some basil (tulasi)leaves tied onto head in the night

i know it sounds gross but it’s worth it when i got head lice i had no money to buy any chemicals for lice so i collected pea samples and put it in my hair it got rid of my lice in a day all you have to do is let it settle in your scalp for two hours then take it out and let it sit in your hair the rest of the dayit certainly worked for me.