I am sooooo SICK of Nits and headlice!!!!!!

[~clover~]

1, there are metal combs you can get. KP24 make one. Its not like the usual nit comb. The prongs are wider, round & very close together. Get one.
After a treatment, when the hair is wet, with or without conditioner, use this comb. It will drag out the eggs, as well as the teeny tiny nits the regular combs can miss. If the hair is dry, the comb will pull, specially if it is pulling eggs off the hair. If wet, the eggs will just slide off with the comb.

2, spray all of your heads every day with a mixture of lavender, tea tree oil & water.
This has worked for us. When I remember to spray them every day, the bugs stay away. If I forget for a couple of days, they are back!

These are the only 2 things I bother with now.
Of all the chemicals & things you can try I find these are best to keep on top of things.
If they are infested (happens on occasion ) I get the cheap pyranel foam & leave it in over night. Its only $8 or $9 a bottle, & they've not survived a full night of it yet. Everything else I've used I'll still find the odd one here & there alive after.

Good luck. They really suck!

[diannescruffy]

Clover, do you buy the mixture already made up or do you have to make it yourself. If you mix it up yourself what is the ratio?

Regards,
Dianne

[Kazzo]

I am also interested in the formula Clover. DD1 brought home headlice for the first time last night. I have the KP24 treatment in. The comb is great like you said. I would like something though that I can spray onto her head before sending her to DC just to deter any more lice. And the more natural the better.

[ladybirdflies]

We live in a place where nits are ruling! After my girls having them constantly for 18months( giving them to me, hubby, baby XDH and his wife in this time), using only conditioner and a comb every three days or everynight when it was bad, I finally tried Envirocare headlice shampoo. We have not had ONE single nit since October last year, despite the nit epidemic at school. Before envirocare they would have no nits in their hair in the morning and come home from school with anywhere between 5 -20 fully grown egg laying nits EVERYDAY! ARGHHHH
I cannot recommend it highly enough, it's natural and now we use this as a shampoo twice a week, no need for any other combs or anything. Anyone who has tried this no longer has nits, its unbelievable. At health food stores in big 1litre container, and we are not even half way through since October! RUN, get some!!!!!!