i really want to share a great home lice remedy, however, i just joined this site recently to spread the word and i don't know how to mail the writers, so i will share it here:
a great home remedy for killing head lice AND eggs. this will work with any hair type, fine, thick, wavy, straight, or even dreadlocks. it should be kid-friendly if you're super carefull.
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you first get a fairly large bucket of vinigar. i suggest you put it in a bathtub. be super careful with this. now, pour a large amount of cayenne pepper with the vinigar, just enough to fill the whole bucket. dunk your head in the bucket. again, be SUPER careful NOT to get in in your eyes or face. another tip, dont breath in deeply.
soak your head in the bucket so you know the vinigar worked through your hair. keep it qwick so you won't feel too uncomfortable with all the vinigar fumes. then dunk the bucket out onto your head, away from your face, into the tub. try puring it out backwards away from your face. do not do this over a sink, you need alot of room. then with the vinigar and cayenne pepper solution in your hair, qwickly put a plastic grocery bag over your head tightly. the bag helps keeps the fumes of the vinigar in with the bugs. put a towle over your sholders just in case the bag leeks. WARNING: it shouldn't hurt, but it might sting just a bit. but i garentee it won't sting that bad.
try to do this procedure about a half an hour before you go to bed so you can sleep with it in and have it in your hair for a while. if you can't sleep with it in, keep it on as long as possible.
after you wake up, or kept the bag on for a while, be careful while taking the bag off, its fumes will get to you. then, wash your hair with shaving cream. you dont need a special brand, just the white, foam kind. it can be a cheep brand, just not a gel shaving cream. lice hate dirty hair. shaving cream will keep them from staying in your hair because it appears dirty. it kills stray eggs that might have stayed.
just to be safe (and if you dont want your hair to small so bad) if you can get your hands on it, coconut oil supposively keeps lice away, and gets rid of the vinigar smell. ;)
hairspray and hairgell also keep lice away. so after you shower, add some hirspray and/or hairgell, again, just to be safe. ;)
if you're house is infested, i don't have any remedys for that, so the best thing i've read is to vaccume, lice spray, vaccume, wash sheets, wash cloths, vaccume and vaccume.
i really hope this works for you like it worked with my little brother.
