Last fall, I wrote how olive oil kills lice and unfortunately, we had to use olive oil once again recently in this household. There was another lice outbreak at my girls’ school but believe it or not, only one child got lice this time. You may wonder why the other child did not?
Every school day, I pull back M’s hair and either braid it, put it in a pony tail, pigtails, or a cute bun and then will spray her hair with hair spray all over. At night, M will wash and condition her hair with Tea Tree Oil Shampoo and Conditioner from Trader Joes.
L on the other hand, I only would wash her hair with the kid’s suave shampoo and either leave her hair down or put it up in a cute hair bow with no hair spray.
Guess who got lice? L did. M escaped the outbreak on her softball team and the outbreak from her classroom. I now know that my precautions that I was doing with M works.
So, parents listen. Do these simple two steps daily and you will be able to help prevent lice from entering your child’s hair.
1. Pull your child’s hair back and hair spray the hair all over.
2. Wash your child’s hair with a tea tree oil and peppermint shampoo.
Believe me, you will be glad you did!
We battled lice off an on from December through February. Just when I thought I was clear, I found more! But once I started using shampoo like the one in your post (I bought mine on Amazon, now I know I can get it at Trader Joe’s!!) it went away and didn’t come back.
Thank you for weighing in Amy. I even seen on the Dr’s show one day they were talking about Tea Tree Oil. It is a small price to pay for us not keep lice out of our house.
I’ve heard that mayonnaise works on lice too. My friend told me her mom used it on them when they were kids. They had foster kids that came and went on the weekends. Some would have lice. Others wouldn’t. But every Monday morning she said her mom would cover their hair with Mayo and put a shower cap on it for like 6 hours. If there were lice that got rid of them. If not it left their hair smooth and shiny.
Neem oil is also excellent to use. Peanut has a buzz cut and it’s because of a horrible lice outbreak at school. We didn’t get it, but he’s lucky and has asian hair structure.
I’m sharing this with all of my friends though!
I feel your pain, mama. We’ve been there and done that…and now that I’m reading your post, my head is itching. We did the whole marinading-our-kids’-head-in-pesticides thing once and never again. You’re right. Olive works best – and frankly, it left my hair looking better than ever. We’ve since fallen in love with the Circle of Friends brand of tea tree oil shampoo and leave-in conditioner. I love the way it smells! We got it at Ulta.