Some good strategies to eliminate lice and nits are to wash your hair with strong rue tea or use the citronella spray, camphorated alcohol or even the essential oils.
These home remedies are great for use on children because they are non-toxic and in addition to fighting also helps prevent infestation if a brother or school friend is having lice.
1. Wash your hair with Arruda tea
An excellent home remedy for treating lice and lice infestation is to wash your hair with rue tea as it eliminates lice and soothes the itchy scalp.
You can apply the tea to the already wet hair before passing the thin comb and thus eliminate naturally the lice and their eggs.
Ingredients
- 40 g of rue leaves
- 1 liter of boiling water
Method of preparation
Put the rue sheets in the boiling water and let infuse for 10 minutes. Cover, let rise and then strain. Once the tea is ready you should apply this infusion to the hair with the aid of a piece of cotton or gauze or simply throwing that mixture, ensuring that all hair is wet.
Next you should wrap a towel on the head and let the infusion of rue act for 30 minutes. Then wash the hair with shampoo, apply conditioner and do not rinse, passing a thin comb on each strand of hair to remove dead lice and nits.
2. Use citronella spray
Citronella fights insects, including lice because it has a very intense aroma, which they do not like.
Ingredients
- 150 ml of liquid glycerin
- 150 ml citronella tincture
- 350 ml of alcohol
- 350 ml of water
Method of preparation
Mix all ingredients and place in a tightly closed container. Apply daily on hair and root, letting act for a few minutes.
3. Apply oils to the scalp
Simply apply a mixture of the following oils in equal proportions: lavender oil, peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil throughout the scalp and leave to act all night and only wash your hair with a shampoo for oily hair in the morning.
4. Spray camphorated alcohol
Camphorated alcohol can be found in pharmacies, but you can also only buy camphor in small pieces and then add it to the alcohol bottle and leave the product inside. Just sprinkle a little of this alcohol throughout the hair to avoid infestation of lice.
Caring for lice
Another important tip to stop the lice is to wash the individual's clothes, bed sheet, pillowcase and bath towel separately and then put in a pan of water, boiling for a few minutes.
Each louse lives about 30 days, and puts an average of 6 to 8 eggs per day, which within 7 days hatch, giving rise to lice, and so when someone is with lice you must be very careful that others do not are contaminated, avoiding to lend hats or clothes that may contain lice or lice.
These care should be followed daily until all lice and nits are eliminated.
