By Shazzie Love
I am celebrating. Actually, I'm always celebrating, but today I'm celebrating for a reason. My daughter Evie has been head lice free for two weeks.
Is that something to celebrate? Yes. Why?
She's got the longest hair in the world.
Head lice are rife where we live, in her school and amongst her friends outside of school
Why are head lice hard to get rid of?
Lice are very clever at resisting all conventional treatments and it seems many parents have given up trying, preferring instead to wait until they "grow out of them". More children have lice now than in our day, and so it's much easier to catch them. Chemicals that are toxic to our children don't make much of a difference to lice. Even if you get rid of them with chemicals, they will come back when your child comes into contact with lice again, and so your child has to be subjected to more toxic chemicals. Not a nice option, and I wouldn't do it to Evie.
So I've been working my way through Evie's hair for months using a combination of an electric comb and essential oil spray. Sometimes she'd only have one or two lice a day, sometimes she'd have none, but they'd always come back. Only when I added tea tree to the oil spray did the head lice disappear properly.
I'd read about tea tree oil being the magical head lice ingredient a while ago, and in tests the oil kills both the lice and the eggs. But spraying a child every day with any substance isn't really what I want to do, so I figured I'd use the minimum amount possible.
This is what has been working for us: Using a 200ml bottle, I filled it up with water and added just 10 drops of tea tree oil. After combing Evie's hair with the electric comb to detect and kill the lice, I spray her hair, making sure I spray in all the areas head lice like to gather. Since using tea tree oil spray, she hasn't caught head lice at all.
You can also add tea tree oil to your shampoo, but I don't know how effective this is as it gets washed out. Adding it to a leave-in conditioner would probably work better.
So there we are, a child with no lice, and still with the longest hair in the world. Yipee.
And no, I have no idea how I can call myself a vegan now, after intentionally killing animals living on my daughter. Where do you draw the line?
Bliss U
Shazzie | TV Presenter, Author, CEO
Read my book on raising children naturally for more hints and tips like this: http://www.detoxyourworld.com/acatalog/evies_kitchen.html
I am celebrating. Actually, I'm always celebrating, but today I'm celebrating for a reason. My daughter Evie has been head lice free for two weeks.
Is that something to celebrate? Yes. Why?
She's got the longest hair in the world.
Head lice are rife where we live, in her school and amongst her friends outside of school
Why are head lice hard to get rid of?
Lice are very clever at resisting all conventional treatments and it seems many parents have given up trying, preferring instead to wait until they "grow out of them". More children have lice now than in our day, and so it's much easier to catch them. Chemicals that are toxic to our children don't make much of a difference to lice. Even if you get rid of them with chemicals, they will come back when your child comes into contact with lice again, and so your child has to be subjected to more toxic chemicals. Not a nice option, and I wouldn't do it to Evie.
So I've been working my way through Evie's hair for months using a combination of an electric comb and essential oil spray. Sometimes she'd only have one or two lice a day, sometimes she'd have none, but they'd always come back. Only when I added tea tree to the oil spray did the head lice disappear properly.
I'd read about tea tree oil being the magical head lice ingredient a while ago, and in tests the oil kills both the lice and the eggs. But spraying a child every day with any substance isn't really what I want to do, so I figured I'd use the minimum amount possible.
This is what has been working for us: Using a 200ml bottle, I filled it up with water and added just 10 drops of tea tree oil. After combing Evie's hair with the electric comb to detect and kill the lice, I spray her hair, making sure I spray in all the areas head lice like to gather. Since using tea tree oil spray, she hasn't caught head lice at all.
You can also add tea tree oil to your shampoo, but I don't know how effective this is as it gets washed out. Adding it to a leave-in conditioner would probably work better.
So there we are, a child with no lice, and still with the longest hair in the world. Yipee.
And no, I have no idea how I can call myself a vegan now, after intentionally killing animals living on my daughter. Where do you draw the line?
Bliss U
Shazzie | TV Presenter, Author, CEO
Read my book on raising children naturally for more hints and tips like this: http://www.detoxyourworld.com/acatalog/evies_kitchen.html
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