Comments on: How To Kill Lice and Not Your Hair http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:13:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: D http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-43852 D Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:55 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/#comment-43852 Correction: "RESULTZ" works really well, NIX is the one that was over used! I tried the baby oil, left it over night and combed it out this morning. I definitely removed a bunch, but as I have really thick hair I will have to wait for boyfriend to get home for the final inspection. I blow-dryed my hair before combing as I read they hate that. Anyway, it seems to have worked! Correction: “RESULTZ” works really well, NIX is the one that was over used!

I tried the baby oil, left it over night and combed it out this morning. I definitely removed a bunch, but as I have really thick hair I will have to wait for boyfriend to get home for the final inspection. I blow-dryed my hair before combing as I read they hate that.
Anyway, it seems to have worked!

]]> By: D http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-43851 D Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:48:35 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/#comment-43851 I am an elementary school teacher in an inner-city school and so encounter lice far too often. I actually realized yesterday that one of the little girls from the school gave them to me when she hugged me this week. : S As far as chemical products go NIX is the one that always works, because they don't use common pesticides which the lice have begun growing immunities to. I have heard that oil works well - we'll find out, I put some on last night and will go wash my hair soon to check the results. TEA TREE OIL SHAMPOO is supposed to be one of the best repellants, but it is very strong smelling. I'll let you know if the baby oil worked! I am an elementary school teacher in an inner-city school and so encounter lice far too often. I actually realized yesterday that one of the little girls from the school gave them to me when she hugged me this week. : S
As far as chemical products go NIX is the one that always works, because they don’t use common pesticides which the lice have begun growing immunities to. I have heard that oil works well – we’ll find out, I put some on last night and will go wash my hair soon to check the results. TEA TREE OIL SHAMPOO is supposed to be one of the best repellants, but it is very strong smelling.

I’ll let you know if the baby oil worked!

]]> By: jmang6168 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-36728 jmang6168 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:42:18 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/#comment-36728 you can kill lice using pine-sol.my aunt is the head nurse at a major hospital and when her children got lice she used 1 part pine-sol to 3 parts water and first she washed their hair and while it was still wet she mix the pine-sol/water solution and rinsed their hair.do not dry the hair after the pine-sol solution cover it with a bathing or shower cap over night.it worked like a charm on my nieces and nephew when they came home from school with these nasty little bugs.also put any combs and other items including book bags into a plastic trash bag and set it in direct sunlight.the heat and lack of oxygen will kill and that are on these items.PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR CHILDREN IN A PLASTIC BAG THIS WILL KILL YOUR CHILDREN.I HAD TO ADD THAT LAST WARNING SINCE WE ALL KNOW THERE ARE SOME PARENTS OUT THERE WHO DO CRAZY THINGS. you can kill lice using pine-sol.my aunt is the head nurse at a major hospital and when her children got lice she used 1 part pine-sol to 3 parts water and first she washed their hair and while it was still wet she mix the pine-sol/water solution and rinsed their hair.do not dry the hair after the pine-sol solution cover it with a bathing or shower cap over night.it worked like a charm on my nieces and nephew when they came home from school with these nasty little bugs.also put any combs and other items including book bags into a plastic trash bag and set it in direct sunlight.the heat and lack of oxygen will kill and that are on these items.PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR CHILDREN IN A PLASTIC BAG THIS WILL KILL YOUR CHILDREN.I HAD TO ADD THAT LAST WARNING SINCE WE ALL KNOW THERE ARE SOME PARENTS OUT THERE WHO DO CRAZY THINGS.

]]> By: shirley meyers http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-28441 shirley meyers Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:16:40 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/#comment-28441 my daughter (8) got nits and then lice for the first time in her life - we don't know how or where. She then gave them to me and we have tried so many products and spent so much time and money. We went to a hair salon in mobile, AL and the owner promised her product would cure it. She removed the nits from both of us and charged us $250 plus prducts she recommended (Fairy Tales). It was OK for a little while and then they came back, even though we cleaned everything that could be cleaned every day including the interior of the car. We are so exhausted. We have tried everything safe and are unwilling to use the chemical products. I would love to know the name of the product that repels lice from "taking residence on your family's heads". Thank you so much. my daughter (8) got nits and then lice for the first time in her life – we don’t know how or where. She then gave them to me and we have tried so many products and spent so much time and money. We went to a hair salon in mobile, AL and the owner promised her product would cure it. She removed the nits from both of us and charged us $250 plus prducts she recommended (Fairy Tales). It was OK for a little while and then they came back, even though we cleaned everything that could be cleaned every day including the interior of the car. We are so exhausted. We have tried everything safe and are unwilling to use the chemical products. I would love to know the name of the product that repels lice from “taking residence on your family’s heads”. Thank you so much.

]]> By: Jennifer http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/comment-page-1/#comment-12866 Jennifer Wed, 30 May 2007 18:09:29 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/11/how-to-kill-lice-and-not-your-hair/#comment-12866 Most commercial lice shampoos contain Pyrethrum or some other insecticide. I avoid insecticide-based lice treatments. During our last (I truly hope LAST) infestation, we learned that oil (baby oil, salad oil, mayonaise, butter) suffocates live/hatched lice. I also found a children's hair care product manufacturer that sells a product to loosen nits and a line of product that repel lice from taking residence on your family's heads. I didn't know your policy on name-dropping, so if thebeautybrains.com wants further info, I will provide it. Most commercial lice shampoos contain Pyrethrum or some other insecticide. I avoid insecticide-based lice treatments. During our last (I truly hope LAST) infestation, we learned that oil (baby oil, salad oil, mayonaise, butter) suffocates live/hatched lice. I also found a children’s hair care product manufacturer that sells a product to loosen nits and a line of product that repel lice from taking residence on your family’s heads. I didn’t know your policy on name-dropping, so if thebeautybrains.com wants further info, I will provide it.

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