Vinegar is commonly used to treat head lice, but is actually often misused, as many people think that it will remove both adult lice and head lice eggs. And people who sell commercial anti-lice products take advantage of this to say that home remedies such as head lice vinegar don’t work.
Now let’s see what vinegar for head lice can do and cannot do.
However, vinegar is a very powerful weapon against head lice eggs, called nits. And a vinegar lice treatment combined with careful combing is definitely powerful to get rid of head lice eggs. But if you also want to kill adult head lice, you’ll have to use another home remedy such as olive oil and essential oils.
So just remember:
Vinegar can help you get rid of nits or head lice eggs.
Vinegar canNOT help you get rid of adult head lice.
Why is vinegar effective to remove head lice eggs?
The word vinegar derives from the Old French vin aigre, meaning sour wine. Vinegar is the result of two biochemical processes: alcoholic fermentation, which converts natural sugars into alcohol, and acid fermentation, in which microorganisms present in the air we breathe, convert the alcohol into acetic acid. This acid has antiseptic or germ killing properties. Vinegar usually has an acetic acid concentration of around 5% and is safe to use for head lice.
The acetic acid contained in vinegar will dissolve the exoskeleton (the protective shell of nits) of lice eggs, and they will no longer stick to the hair and will be easy to remove with a good nit comb.
What type of lice vinegar can we use?
You can use different types of vinegars for head lice, such as white vinegar, wine vinegar (red or white), or apple cider vinegar.
1. White vinegar and head lice
White vinegar is distilled vinegar. It is plain acetic acid in water, either as a simple chemical mix (usually very cheap or cleaning grade vinegar) or obtained through fermentation of distilled alcohol. It has usually a 5% acidity level. Thus this vinegar is harsh and has a sharp flavor. It is cheaper than other types of vinegar, and it can readily be found in most grocery stores.
2. Wine vinegar for head lice
- White Wine Vinegar: this type of vinegar is light flavored and is used for cooking. Its color can vary from white to pale gold and its acid level varies from 5% to 7%. It is made from the fermentation of real white wine, and thus retains much of its original white wine taste.
- Red Wine Vinegar: it has been used for centuries for both medicinal and culinary purposes. Its color can vary from light rose to deep red and its acid level also varies from 5% to 7%.
3. Apple cider vinegar
What apple cider vinegar to choose for head lice? Your best bet is to buy an apple cider vinegar which is not filtered, not pasteurized, and made from organic apples. This is because it will most of the time have a 5% acid concentration, which is what you want. A higher concentration would not be so safe to apply to your scalp, and a lower concentration would not be as effective to unglue the nits from your hair.
Is vinegar safe to use?
Vinegar is a natural organic bi-product of fruits, vegetables and grains. It is therefore edible and biodegradable. It is perfectly safe for the environment, for family members, especially those with asthma, and around young children. It doesn’t contain harmful toxic chemicals.
Vinegar will sting your eyes if sprayed directly into them, so direct contact with eyes should be avoided. Vinegar will not, however, cause any short or long-term damage to your eyes.
Warning: if your child has red marks on the scalp or has an irritated scalp (this can happen if the child has been infested for a while or if you have previously used a commercial lice killing shampoo), you want to avoid putting vinegar on the scalp, as it may irritate it too much.
How can you use vinegar to get rid of nits?
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Step 1: use pure vinegar to unglue the nits from the hairshaft. You should apply pure vinegar to your child’s hair, especially close to the scalp, behind the ears and in the neck area. Then, wait for a few minutes.
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Step 2: you should now rinse off the vinegar with water or 50% water/50%vinegar. Then, you need to spend time combing all nits out. Click here for more info on How to use a lice comb. This is a crucial step, so don’t skip it, thinking that the vinegar will do the trick. It will NOT.
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Step 3: repeat this process for two days or more until you can see no eggs and you are sure that all live nits are gone. Nits will hatch within 7 days of being laid, this is why you should really get rid of all live nits within a week from the date of your first vinegar treatment and combing out.
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From sad experience I can tell you that vinegar (I used apple cider) absolutely does work to get rid of the nits. The only thing I’ve found works for the adults is religious combing with a flea or lice comb.
I put a thick layer of conditioner on my daughters hair and combed all the adults out, then rinsed her hair. I then put on white vinegar – waiting 15 minutes for it to work in – then combed as many of the eggs out as I could. I then rinsed her hair again and towel dried, then added more white vinegar. She has gone to bed with it and will wash it out in the morning. This has been an effective treatment a couple of times now.
I used white distilled vinegar for my hair a couple of weeks ago. I burned my eyes badly, but thank god no damage. It was amazing seeing those nits fall into the bucket of vinegar. In my stage of head lice, I had no adult lice, all I had were nits. It came out fine! But I’m going to use the Lice Shampoo to MAKE SURE that nothing is still there! This helps! Thanks!
After a breakout of head lice at my children’s elementary school, and recurring problems since, I’ve found initial treatment of vinegar rinse, comb out, vinegar rinse, then shampoo mixture (shampoo plus a couple drops of tea tree oil and couple drops of lavender oil). Also putting a few drops of tea tree oil and lavender oil in your shampoo bottle for everyday use keeps the head lice away.
Don’t forget to clean the car seat after treatment of lice.
Always buy your kids their own helmits for sports! That is how our family got it & still trying to get rid of it! ;(
hey i recently got head lice i did the shampooing for head lice and than i started doing baby oil on hair like every other day and than i was searching online if vinegar would get rid of head lice.. and it did. my hair dont itch as bad anymore.. but i get paranoid thinking i have head lice.
i dont mix water into vinegar. i just soak my hair with all vinegar till its soak to my head.. than i i use a thin comb to brush my hair to untangle all nots than i wait for 3 to 5 mins than i hope into shower i put shampoo like 2 times .. i feel so fresh so clean…
OMG Thanxxxxs so muh for posting!!! I have spend about $250.00 so far on lice killing shampos!!! Did’t know Vinegar could do it!!!!! On my way to he store now !!!
I wish I had known about this a lot sooner! The treatments are sooo expensive we have tried so much and nothing works! We have even cut my daughters hair super short! I am at my wits end! Going out to buy vinegar now! I pray this works!
Thank you so much for this page! Very informative and a heck of a lot cheaper than the pesticides in the store. I’ve got three girls with very long hair who have it, and myself. It’s the second time and I’m not sure where they are getting it. I will have to try the tea tree oil!
So glad I came across this site. I think my daughter is clear now (I pray). I check her every night though. I am def. going to try the vinegar wash just to be safe and I plan on making a shampoo/Tea Tree oil to keep for every day use!! Great idea!
Headlicecenter thanks a lot for a nice site, especially for mothers.
Just went through the site today ,thanks a lot i surely try it on my daughters.
Thank you.
thanks for this site, have been fighting headlice with my granddaughters for 2 wks, the commercial lice shampoo does not work, i’m defintely doing the vinager rinse and the tea tree oil and lavendar in shampoo, any other advice out there from other parents is greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for all the great information. I just discovered we had a head lice infestation. I tried an OTC shampoo last week and clearly still have a problem. I am going to try the olive oil and vinegar. I am concerned with so many comments about the ongoing problems people have had. I much prefer the natural remedies to harsh chemicals. Thanks very much for your help.
When I was a child, my mother used to do a vinegar rinse. I played outside A LOT! At the time I didn’t know why she did the vinegar rinse. I do not recall ever having head lice as a child. She used it as a preventative measure.
thank you fo all info i found here. but let me complete with our story. school start, one day my daughter had fever. no school, time with mommy. me! peting her hair to calm her down, BUGS!!!!! crawling all over her hair!
INTERNET!!! Nix for three weeks, combing, nothing.
INTERNET again. I put all info togheter:
- vaseline for 8 hours (overnight) plenty in the hair, shower cap
(cap full whith dead lice)
- wash with baby oil, plenty, to take it off hair
- four times wash with dishwasher
- shampoo
- blow dry
- warm vinegar, 5%, 30 mins
- rinse
- hair still oily, eggs sliding easile down
- comb
- add baking powderr to take the oil off
- eggs DRIED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- wash the hair again
BINGO! we are clean.
keep the vinegar in the bathroom!
ps. a little chimistry from school…
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Thank you all for the advice. Found head lice on my 4 year old on Monday night…treated with over the counter stuff and combed out. OK for about a day, and they were back. Mayonnaise in the hair for 5 hours and got rid of what we thought was most of it! ONE sucker lived through the 5 hours… I combed her and checked her again today, and she looked pretty clean, my hair dresser checked too…ONE live sucker! Picked up the RID kit…and just combed through…nothing seems to be alive, and just finished dousing her with apple cider vinegar…hoping this does the trick!
Thanks for this site/message board. I’ll be doing the vinegar treatment today!
Thank you so much for this site you have created. you ‘ve had soo many people that have visited your site because this is soo common and a pain in the ***!!! i followed your steps. i am on day 3 and almost completely egg/nit free for my daughter. ive been leaving olive oil over night onher scalp to help soothe the irritation and it has worked. i will wash her hair with vinegar for next couple of days, on day 7 i will do both oilive oil then vinegar again. thank you so much for offering this free and helpful information it is so appreciated. i have e maile dmy friends to have your site on their favorites!
Well I hope I am not jumping the gun here but my results seem to be fantastic!!!!!!!!!! Not without the help of this site. Thank you to all with your posts and info. I slept with my mixture of vinger and miracle whip (since I don’t have mayo) and I didn’t rinse it out untill 3pm today. Now I will still do some treatments maybe with the TTO in my shampoo to prevent it however I have checked my daughter and she seems to be clear of lice and also my hair feels super smooth and clean. I only hope that the tingles I felt here and there today were from pure paranoia because I sure thru a fit when I found out I had it, crying and running thru my house taking things to the laundry room and so worried that it would be the death of me to get rid of and worst of all cut my daughters beautiful long hair. If it is gone or it isn’t I just want to thank this site for the helpful tips and I will be sure to keep all these ingrediants in home at all times as I am now sooooo worried that since my daughter started all day school that this may be a reocurrance. Also I just wanted to add that I believe since I found my daughters hat and gloves in the lost and found at her school I am sure that is where it came from and I am eager to consult with her school staff to try to prevent this and let them know about this site and other ways they could help to prevent this happening in any way possible. Thanks to everyone again. One parent helping another, I am so thankful.
I want to thank everyone that posted about the mayo and ACV treatment from the bottom of my heart! God damn, i think its f*%king working! I have spent probably around $500 on lice treatments (if not more) and NOTHING seemed to work. I just tried the mayo and ACV and they were ALL DEAD! Even with the toxic treatments, i would still be combing out half dead lice but not this time. I will treat again in 3 days and then 3 days after that. And will also be spraying their hair each school day with the tea tree oil water. But i now have hope. Thank you so much
If you want to get rid of lice, treat with vinegar (may need several treatments) (the acids dissolve the egg lining and helps kill the eggs)… then mayo or cooking oil (may need several treatments) (the oils suffocate the adults and helps kill them)… wash and dry (on high heat) all bedding and toys that have fibers, even your bedding (even if you do not think that you have it) because your children do climb on your bedding, or a nit attached hair can be stuck on you, and get there at some point during the day … thoroughly clean and sanitize under, around and on the beds (might need to buy bedding spray) but as a parent you know to do this each week … Thoroughly clean in, on, around, under your couches & chairs (get in thouse cracks and crevices) … if you often have your kids friends at your home, check their hair (take them home so that their parents may treat their hair or call and get permission) … ALWAYS call around to their friends and inform the parents about the situation … keeping everyone informed is always best … this helps break it down … tell them to start the chain of calls (its more than likely a BIGGER problem than you think … Call family and inform them … Do not Keep this problem to yourself (because its too embarrassing or whatever) … Call the school … they need to be informed and check all the kids … its their responsibility to notify all parents and do checks … removal is easy and prevention is easier …
Sadly my 6 year old Granddaughter has been coming home from school with head lice. someone told me once about the vinger treatment and now I keep a gallon of vinger at all times.it’s great for cutting the glue that holds the nits and she doesn’t seam to mind it.I keep a spray bottle of it around and every once in a while we comb with it even with no lice visible, it makes her hair shine also.
I have 3 girls and they have all been infested with head lice. It has been a battle for me for about 5 months now. My tow little ones don’t have as much hair and have been manageable but my older daughter has the hair of all 3 of us put together and has been the greatest challenge. I’ve used hair shampoos, washed everything out in hot water daily and spent many evenings removing nits. The problem is still there and i am glad to finally know what will kills the nits! We are on vacation right now and will take the extra time to completely get rid of these horrible bugs. Thanks for all your comments. Very useful information.
While it is true that just a white egg means its a dead nit, they can stick to your hair for a LONG time, and if you ever plan on getting a hair cut, REMOVE THEM, or else the hairdressers legally cannot cut your hair.
Hi, when I was younger my 2 younger sister’s and I al got head lice. My mom tried the RID treatment and it did not work for our hair, so my mom covered our whole head with a think conditioner and made sure that it was on kinda thick, enough to cover the scalp and all the hair. Then she got a plastic bag, without holes, and put our hair on the top of our head and cover just our hair with the bag and tied it so that there was no air to get in the bag and we wore that for about 10 he’s or overnight. We found out that it suffocates all the lice, adult and the nits.
Wowsers! I used red wine vinegar. It worked really well, the best part is that my daughters thick blonde hair was so easy to comb through for once. Best detangler ever, also her natural colour came back to life 2 fold almost as if it had been bleached and the first thing i noticed, it had cleansed her scalp. Put vinegar in spray bottle, soak hair and massage through, wait ten mins and wash out. comb through. Then used fat mayo, also comb through. Wash out with tea tree oil mixed with shampoo. No conditioner. I’ll use Robi electric comb pro tomorow to be sure. Cheers headlicecentre.
My 5 year old daughter was treated for headlice Saturday. Her head was COMPLETELY covered, it looked like parmasean cheese was sprinkled on her hair. I did not pay any attention to the white speks I saw periodically, we switched shampoo because of dandruff so I thought nothing of lice. I have never had lice and I wasnt educated on it either. Once my mother told me it was lice, I googled it. Checked her head and sure enough, LICE! I did a store bought treatment (RID) right away. I cleaned EVERYTHING cleanable, BUT the nits hatched the next day. I googled all night Saturday and Sunday and found this website. I did the olive oil Tuesday night, the aftermath was incredible. The treatment didnt even allow us to comb out that many nits/nimphs. It is Wednesday night and I have done the Apple Cyder Vinegar. It worked WAY better than the RID as well. Continuing with the Olive Oil & Vinegar for the next month. I hope this goes away FOR GOOD, so my babygirl can go back to school. Thank you Headlicecenter.com and those who posted your comments/experience!
My daughter got lice from school over 3 times and used the Nix cream rinse didn’t work either did that plastic blue comb….I used vinegar and vegetable oil and combed it out with a metal lice comb…and her hair is sooooo clean now ..
We are currently on round 2 of head lice for the 2nd month. We use a spray bottle of store brand mouth cover with shower cap 2 hrs. Then rinse. While head is still wet, spray with another bottle white vinager cover with another shower cap for 2 hours. Then rinse. Then while still wet, use coconut conditioner for 15 mins (uncovered) then comb out and leave hair dry either air or preferred blow dryer. Make sure to throw out each shower cap though. Worked for my husband, me, and now my teen. Just waiting for youngest to get it again. Good luck everyone.
I have tried every commercial product to rid my daughter of nits over the past three months, and seriously I am at the end of my tether because nothing was working. She has thick, dry hair and I couldn’t seem to get all the eggs out! Even repeatedly combing each strand, and those eggs would stay glued to the hair. One night I honestly felt like crying after spending about eight hours treating her over a week. So today I sprayed white vinegar onto her hair, dipping the metal nit comb into a jug of boiling water and HEAPS of eggs came out. I then used a commercial treatment to kill the adults and remaining eggs. I will repeat this until she is clear. Interestingly no-one else in the family is infected.
Friends who are hairdressers say that lice infestation is very common this year, and many families are struggling to get rid of them.
(READ BOTTOM, MOST IMPORTANT)So I tried what one of the people on here suggested which used most home remedies for head lice.
INTERNET again. I put all info togheter:
- vaseline for 8 hours (overnight) plenty in the hair, shower cap
(cap full whith dead lice)
- wash with baby oil, plenty, to take it off hair
- four times wash with dishwasher
- shampoo
- blow dry
- warm vinegar, 5%, 30 mins
- rinse
- hair still oily, eggs sliding easile down
- comb
- add baking powderr to take the oil off
- eggs DRIED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- wash the hair again
I was just occasionally finding a few nits and anytime I had someone check me, so I decided to try this, so it would help possibly combining most remedies. Seemed like a good idea. I have long thick hair and put the vaseline in my hair, for 5 hours went use dish soap to get it out and spend about 2 hours shampooing my hair trying to get enough out so I could blow dry it. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BABY OIL ON HAND! I tried baking powder and shampooing my hair about 20 times with dish soap and still had tons left in. I was only able to get it out by putting BABY OIL on and shampooing my hair about 3 times after that. Just wanted to give that warning out.
i think the COMBING THOROUGHLY WITH FINE NIT COMB is what gets them out. no matter how much you put on or in your hair wether it be vinegar or brought shampoos / treatments etc, the combing out of the eggs is vital! gotta get those suckers out!!!! and if you kids go to school and keep getting them WRITE A FORMAL LETTER TO THE SCHOOL and tell them that there is a major outbreak, or go directly to the parents if you know which kid it is! NITS SUCK! and its such a had thing to get rid of!
What a nightmare! This is the second time in 3 months my daughter has come home with it. I completely agree the over the counter stuff does NOT work! Not to mention is so bad for the child. I did a combination of salt, olive oil and dawn dishsoap. Let it sit on for 30 min or so, rinse it out with water and comb, comb, comb. The olive oil will suffocate the adult louse and nymphs. The salt I was told dehydrates the egg shell, and dawn is a degreaser, so it helps loosen the glue and makes for easy comb outs. Use a metal lice comb, plastic ones are useless. I did this yesterday and it was scary how many came out. I’m going to do the vinegar today. And thanks for the tea tree and lavendar oil suggestion!
I read somewhere to use Listerine to kill head lice, so when my step daughter came home yesterday from her moms infested with them I grabbed our generic brand and soaked her head. Works better than anything I have ever found, and it’s cheap. All I have to do now is the vinegar treatment.
My daughter came home from a four day stay over with a friend and comes home with head lice. The man made products do not work. I did the rid treatment and combed and she still had live bugs. I went and bought olive oil, had her sleep in it. We still had live bugs but they combed out pretty easily. I went back and bought the Quit Nits which has Quarria oil in it and also a spray that has eucalyptus oil that prevents it from coming back. I had used this before but it is very expensive. I have learned that tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil in the shampoo helps but the nearest health food store to get these is over an hour away, with gas prices it would have added up to the $25 I spent on the Quit Nits. I’m content with my choice but I will be using the vinegar to make sure I rid all the nits. Thank You for all the input on this site. I will be passing on this information to the people we contracted it from since they think if you color your hair it rids it which it does not. Make sure you sweep the beds and put all the linens in washer on hot. Pillows and stuffed animals can be put in the dryer on high heat for 30 min. The live louse has to eat every hour or it becomes weak, within 24 hours they will die, but the pesty little nits can hatch so be sure to get them all…
I found that if you use vinegar ( soak hair in it and wrap In shower cap and leave for an hour) wash it out then using mayo or coconut oil ( douse in hair use shower cap and wait One hour) rinse then using shampoo cover hair and brush out with lice comb it works great! Simply use the treatment 7 days later. If needed do 3 rd treatment.
Thanks for all the advice, likewise weve spent so much money on lice meds for wks now on my daughter and she still has them!im gonna try the vinegar treatment tonight..we did the tea tree oil in the past and it honestly didnt work for us but coconut shampoo did the trick for the school year..
I’m sitting here with mayo and a shower cap on now. Going to the store tomorrow for the vinegar. Thank you for this site!
My kids have had it 3 times now and I have always used vinegar.. heard about it the first time they got it and my mom use to use it when I was younger but didnt think it actually worked but now that I have kids and use it I know it works GREAT and cleans the hair and scalp.. the shine after words is an AWW!!! I just pour straight vinegar on there heads towel wrap it and leave it for 20 min.s rinse and pull nits off hair cause combs leaves to many.. I would rather take the extra time and go through strand by strand and make sure I get them out of my kids head so they can get back to school.. ASAP. I got my daughter back to school in 1 DAY. SHe has long fine brown hair. I will repeat the treatment daily and checking of head daily just to make sure for a week or a fews days at least. IT ALWAYS WORKS AND VERY FAST AND THEN START THE CLEANING AFTER I KNOW THERE CLEAN. VACCUM EVERYTHING.. WASH EVERYTHING AND I EVEN MAP AND SWEET LIKE THE BATHROOM AND KITCHEN. With the cleaning included.. it usually takes me a week at the most to get the WHOLE infestation under control.. my kids have only missed at the most todays of school because of it!!! Thanks for the TTO in the shampoo.. to keep away tho!! VERY HELPFUL PAGE TO PARENTS!!!
I meant MOP AND SWEEP!! LOL THey have missed at the most two days of school because of it. and of course after you do the treatment..then comb and then head check and pull remaining.. MAKE SURE THEY DONT SLEEP OR SIT ON ANYTHING THAT HASNT BEEN VACCUMED OR CLEANED YET(VERY IMPORTANT CAUSE THEY WILL JUST GET IT BACK IF YOU DONT SANITIZE AND CLEAN AFTER YOU HAVE CLEANED THERE HEAD) !! HOPE YOU GUYS GET THIS! LOL SORRY SO SLOPPY
The absolute best way to get rid of lice is coating the head with mayo and covering with plastic. I try to make my kids leave it on for atleast 3 hours. Then after I shampoo it out of their hair, I cover it with vinegar and let that sit for 20 minutes. The dead lice just fall out and the nits glide right off the hair. Then I thoroughly clean the house and pack away stuff i cannot wash. Then I repeat 7 days later. Works every time! To prevent further infestation I make everyone use coconut shampoo conditioner and body wash. Whoever said vinegar doesn’t work on nits didn’t do it right. I have wasted time and money on Nix and Rid, and it is a joke! After I washed my daughters hair with it they were alive as could be.
I have 3 kids all in school. The best way I found to get rid of lice, is to soak hair in Original Listerine, or in my case, I used a generic Original flavor mouthwash equivalent to Listerine’s ingredients. Soak hair for 2 hours with shower cap on. Some 30 mins. will work, but lice can hold their respiratory systems for up to 2 hours, only appearing to be dead. So 2 hours as a safeguard minimum, better yet, overnight is better. Then rinse out well with warm water. Next, towel dry and soak hair with vinegar for about 1 hour with shower cap. Do NOT rinse out vinegar. Comb through with metal nit comb. The nits will no longer stick to hair and combs out easily. After combing, use a blow dryer to dry hair. The heat is also effective. Then I CAREFULLY use a hot flat iron as close to scalp as possible to kill off any missing nits. You can also use hose attachment to vacuum up the hatched lice. Vacuum everything you can at home. Lice can live without a host head for 6-26 hours waiting to find a host head to call home. I put all bedding, pillows, backpacks, hats, coats, stuffed animals on HIGH heat between 30 mins to 1 hour at a time. Brushes, combs, hair accessories get boiled for one minute and put in Ziplock bags in freezer overnight. Extreme high or low temps. helps kill them.
At 49 years of age, and my daughter at 15, I never expected we would be dealing with an infestation of lice. Like many others that have written, we started with an over the counter pesticide treatment. Another treatment, recommended by the school nurse was used as a follow-up treatment the following day. That was using cetaphil gentle cleanser. The final step in that treatment is a vinegar/water rinse, followed by coming. Yesterday, I came to realize I too had lice so I started with the cetaphil treatment followed up with a venegar rinse, however I used undiluted white vinegar and am now wearing a shower cap over my unrinsed hair. I really appreciate this site with all this information and people sharing their stories. It makes me feel not so alone when we have had to become so isolated from everyone, especially as it is Christmas break and I normally have lots of extra kids around. Thank you!
We soaked our hair in olive oil over night with syran wrap wrapped around our heads and combed it out with the nit comb the next morning. Dead lice came out. Shampooed and blew hair dry. Then we used 8oz of cetaphil cleaser, soaked the hair completely and brushed through. Then you blow dry the hair completely with the cetaphil still in the hair. It takes longer than usual to blow dry with the cleanser in the hair. We left that on all day and over night. The following morning we did the apple cider vinegar rinse…soaked hair completely and combed it with the nit comb again. Rinsed out the vinegar in the shower and then the following day did a double shampoo and conditioner. These are all the effective homeopathic treatments I have read about combined and it worked for us! Also, out hair is so soft, shinny, silky now too! Small bonus for all this torture. Just ordered fairy tails shampoo and conditioner and the rosemary repel leave in conditioner too. They are supposed to help prevent lice bc they have tea tree oil, rosemary, etc in it. Good luck.
I’ve been fighting lice for almost 6 months already! My daughter has super long, thick, curly hair! I bought over 100$ In treatment shampoo but they don’t seem to work! I used put a thick layer of mayonnaise on last night and put a plastic bag on. This morning DEAD lice! After rinsing The mayo out, I put some white vinegar all over her hair! I brushed the nots and started combing with the nit comb. Its amazing how easily they come out! this truly works! Thank you!
I really wish I would have came across this before I did the OTC treatments after doing research online abt the harmful side effects of those treatments I WILL NOT ever use them again. And I wish i had known to use the apple cider vinegar instead of white I bought tons of white at the store after my grandmother suggested using vinegar. Definitely doing the vinegar again, I’ve already done one wash with it on day 2 of trying rid my household of it, then we did olive oil on day 3 of it. But tomorrow is vinegar FOR SURE!
Wow! I am sooo extremely happy to find this site! Thank you to whoever had the idea to begin it and to everyone who has posted. My daughter started the winter off with dry, itchy scalp, like she does every winter. We started using her ‘winter’ shampoo, and didn’t give it much more thought. This has been a weird winter, so it wasn’t working as well so she was scratching more. I checked her hair and things looked fine. So we went on about our merry way. A few weeks back I ended up in the hospital and one day she was visiting me and she was in the bed snuggling with me and I saw some ‘stuff’ in her hair, but she had a stomach thing and said she had thrown up and probably didn’t get it all out. The next morning my hair is all itchy, but I chalk it up to icky hospitals. A couple days later when I’m home, after been scratching like mad, I hug her and to my horror see lots of creepy crawlies! The horrors! How did it get so bad? My son had a bit, as did I and my husband, but hers was terrible. I felt so bad because she must have had it a couple weeks for it to be so bad. The over the counter stuff was an absolute joke! I swear those bugs were laughing at us. I spent a fortune treating everyone, but hers had moved in and didn’t want to vacate the premises. Two hours of desperately trying to comb out nits with virtually no success and her in tears, I visited my friend Google and found this amazing site! Oh my gosh! Vinegar! I use vinegar for cleaning as I do everything all natural. I had no idea how wonderful it did for nits. An hour of combing and she was nit and bug free. When they first started coming out so fast it was like a huge weight was lifted and she kept wanting to see the full comb as I got cleaned it off and went back for more of those nasty eggs. The whole house is getting a good scrubbing and my skin feels like it’s crawling, but it worked. $80 for lice treatment for the whole family versus $3 for a gallon of vinegar! Ugh! I plan to keep checking daily until I’m sure everything is clear, but I feel so much better knowing there is a natural, cheap, and very effective treatment!
Well my daughter has head lice and I wish I would of know this before because I spend more than $100 dollars on other shampoo that said it will work. but sadly it didn’t. But then I saw this site. and it worked vinegar got rid of the nits ( eggs ).im so glad I found this site. So thank you.
My 3 year old’s babysitter informed me on a Friday evening when I went to pick her up that she had lice!! I rushed home and put her in the bath and I didn’t have shampoo for lice so I just put regular shampoo on her and grabbed a comb and combed out about at least 7 lice! Luckily I think they were small so it helped control some damage. Anyway that night I put some lice shampoo in her head (the box says 10 minutes but I left it on at least 30 mins) with a shower cap on her head. I once again gave her a bath and combed her hair like crazy and I only combed nits out. The next day I put vinegar in her hair for at least 45 mins with a shower cap. Then I melted coconut oil mixed in with some drops of tea tree oil and put it all over her hair (on top of the vinegar) for like at least 3 hours or more. I did all this Saturday and her lice were gone! She probably had less than 5 nits that day but it worked.