Head lice can be an irritating experience. Suddenly you find your precious hair possessed by creepy crawlers whose sole purpose seems to be to reproduce and lay eggs and make your life a general misery. Your scalp itches and you feel terrible. Some days you even contemplate going bald.

Only those who have a lice problem can fully appreciate how irritating it can be. If you suffer from head lice, you probably know more than you’d like about them anyway. But there are a few things you need to understand about head lice if you want to control them effectively. First and foremost is this: lice have nothing to do with your cleaning habits. In fact, lice often prefer clean, soft hair to nest and lay eggs.

The second is that head lice are contagious and can be spread by sharing hair care products, a pillowcase, or even a bus seat cover with someone who has head lice. You can also transfer it to your head from someone else if your head touches someone who has head lice, usually the preferred way for those pesky lice that found their way onto your child’s head at school.

So how do you get rid of lice? It is important to remember that lice are hardy creatures that are not easy to kill. There are, of course, many over-the-counter poisons and pesticides that are billed to “get rid of lice forever.” Do they work? Yes. However, many of these products can be bad for your scalp or hair, and people have even reported severe hair loss after using them. The worst part is that the lice on your head may be resistant to the poison you use, so you’re not really doing anything to them other than giving them a warm bath.

Introduce natural cures, free of pesticides. Obviously, they are an excellent option for several reasons:

· They’re good for the environment: These poison-free lice cures come from trees instead of precious chemical by-products. This could also mean that they are cheaper too.
· Lice do not become resistant to them: unlike pesticides, lice cannot develop resistance to natural deworming methods.
They do not harm the scalp and can even be good for the hair: cures, such as natural oil extracts, will not only eliminate lice, but will give your hair a healthy shine and vibrancy, much less than the destructive and exhausting. effect that some over-the-counter detox solutions can have.

So what are these magical natural cures for lice? Listed below are three of the basic ingredients that you can find mostly at home and how to use them to get rid of head lice effectively:

1. Mayonnaise: Mayonnaise is an unlikely contender, but it works wonders for killing lice. Here’s how to use it: Cover your scalp completely with a handful of mayonnaise, right up to the edges of your hairline. Put a shower cap on top of this and leave it like that for 2 hours. If you’re feeling particularly ruthless, you can stay all night. The lice in your hair will be deprived of oxygen and will die. Rinse afterwards and wash your hair with a mild baby shampoo.
Vaseline works the same way as mayonnaise and can be used in the same way. But it’s important to remember that Vaseline can be quite difficult to remove.

2. Olive oil or coconut oil: These are truly ingenious cures. They dissolve the exoskeletons of the lice and thus kill them effectively. You can mix coconut or olive oil with a bunch of essential oils and use it to get rid of head lice on your or your children’s head. Remember to keep it on for two hours or more.

3. Comb well: Combing has been shown to be the most effective natural way to get rid of lice. But it can be a difficult process. It’s very simple: put a conditioner in your hair, and comb your hair strand by strand to remove all the lice and nits (those pesky eggs). This works well as it also removes the eggs. You can try using a little vinegar to make the eggs a little less sticky.

Lice can be really annoying, but it is important to realize that it is a completely curable pestilence.