How to Get Rid of Lice Naturally

You can use natural remedies to get rid of lice. Head lice are very annoying and can be spread easily from one person to the next. Lice outbreaks are common in schools and can sometimes happen multiple times in a school year. The lice live on the scalp feeding off of flakes of skin and laying their eggs on hair shafts. If left untreated, they continue to multiply making the problem worse and worse.

This home remedies helps get rid of lice. Using the treatment a couple of times will get rid of your lice completely.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 20 tablespoons fresh rosemary
• 20 tablespoons of fresh lavender flowers
• 10 tablespoons neem oil
• 10 tablespoons sweet almond oil
• towel or shower cap
• 6 cloves garlic minced
• 2 tablespoons tea tree essential oil
• pestle and mortar
• pan
• bottle
• shampoo
• conditioner
• nit comb

1. Make sure you actually have lice. Head lice are over diagnosed. Check your scalp for itchy red bumps. Look for live lice in your hair and louse eggs. Louse eggs are attached to the hair shaft near the root. If you simply have white flakes on your scalp but not on the shaft and see no live lice, you have dandruff not lice.

2. Put half of the rosemary and lavender in a pestle along with a few tablespoons of almond oil. Crush it in the mortar and pestle. The oil will make it a little easier to crush. When your done dump it into a pan and put the other half of lavender and rosemary into the pestle and crush again like you did the first batch. When it's done dump that into a pan.

3. Add remaining almond oil, neem oil and garlic to the pan with the crushed herbs.

4. Turn the heat on low and heat the mixture gently for 20 minutes. The heat helps release the medicinal properties in the herbs that will help get rid of lice.

5. Strain the oil to remove the herbs.

6. Add tea tree oil.

7. Store in a clean bottle.

8. Apply the mixture to dry hair. Make sure the hair and scalp are completely covered in the oil.

9. Cover your head with a towel or shower cap and leave it on for an hour. If you can, you should leave it on overnight this will ensure that you really do get rid of lice.

10. Shampoo twice to wash out the oil.

11. Put conditioner on your hair and use a nit comb to comb it through.

12. Rinse your hair thoroughly.

13. Repeat the treatment a week later. This will kill any newly hatched lice that you might have missed the first time.

14. Comb your hair with a nit comb every 3 days until there are no signs of lice.

Tips & Warnings

• Combing your hair thoroughly with a nit comb will remove louse eggs to make sure they don't hatch and cause a new outbreak of lice.
• This mixture will keep for 6 months.

Resources

• Home Remedies For Better Health
• Grow Your Own Drugs
• Native Remedies Naughty Nits Hair Oil, Naughty Nits Spritzer and Naughty Nits Shampoo UltraPack
• Dr.Hauschka Neem Hair Oil
• fifikin's Flickr Page