Posts Tagged ‘getting rid of lice’

How Can I Kill Lice?

There are lots of ways to kill head lice. You can suffocate them, you can poison them, you can dry them out, you can plain get rid of them.  You can use herbal remedies. If you choose a suffocant, know that lice breathe air through things called spiricals on the side of their body and…

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How Do You Know If You Have Lice?

It is very hard to self diagnose because you can’t see the top of your scalp or back of your head very well unless you are looking in a mirror and then it is even more difficult.  You can have another person look at your scalp.  You are looking for three basic phases of lice:…

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Lice and Herbal Remedies

When we talk about herbal remedies we are not referring to popular over the counter products that are full of chemicals and sold at stores such as RID and NIX. There are a number of herbal remedies available on the market for treating head lice. These product generally are non-chemical, non-pesticides that use natural ingredients…

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End The Lice-Mare Today

It’s no secret that ridding a family of head lice can be stressful and time consuming—a nightmare that some have called a “lice-mare.” Most home lice treatments require repeated applications, tedious comb-outs and nitpicking, with no guarantee of success. If one nit is missed, the lice will return. Los Alamitos Lice Removal and Torrance Lice…

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What You Need to Know About Over The Counter Lice Shampoos

The most common over-the-counter lice treatment products use pyrethrin, an industrial insecticide used to kill lice. Natural pyrethrin is a derivative of the Chrysanthemum flower. Its synthetic equivalent is permethrin. Together the chemicals are referred to as pyrethroids.There are some 3,500 products that use pyrethroids in varying concentrations, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. These…

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