How to Kill Lice by Using Olive Oil
The olive oil lice treatment is a way to use common household olive oil to smother and kill lice. The oil can be used to kill lice in a few treatments, ensuring that every louse is dead and that there are no more eggs to hatch.
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Instructions
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Put a towel around your shoulders. This will soak up the olive oil when you begin the olive oil lice treatment.
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Pour olive oil into your hair, massaging it into the scalp as you go. The oil is non-toxic and it will not irritate the skin. To kill lice, soak all of the scalp with the oil to reach all of the lice that are present.
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Wrap a shower cap around your hair, and secure it with a string or a tight band. This will hold the shower cap close to the skin, locking in the olive oil. To kill lice, the olive oil must stay directly on the scalp.
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Leave the olive oil on the hair for eight hours or longer when killing lice. This is the minimum time needed to suffocate and kill lice by disrupting their respiration systems. After eight hours, the lice will have to breathe or die. When they can't breathe through the olive oil, they die.
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Repeat this process every week to kill lice that may have hatched from eggs. It's important to kill lice quickly before they can lay their own eggs and keep the life cycle going.
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