Essential Oils and Aromatherapy for Lice

Essential Oils and Aromatherapy for Lice

 

School’s starting soon, which means kids in contact with other kids! It also means a higher possibility that your child may come in contact with – ick! – lice. These little buggers don’t carry disease, nor does it mean that anyone is “unclean” if they have them. But they can be a huge pain to deal with!

Simple, Safe, Natural Recipe Gets Rid of Lice

Common drugstore lice remedies are often chock full of potentially harmful chemicals that we don’t want anywhere near our own bodies – much less putting our precious children in contact with them. Fortunately, there are safe home remedies that can help rid your child (or anyone) of lice, naturally, using essential oils and aromatherapy for lice.*

Essential Oil Conditioner

4 drops tea tree
4 drops thyme
2 drops lavender
2 drops geranium
½ cup coconut oil

Mix ingredients together. You will need a good quality nit comb to get rid of lice as well as their eggs.

Every day, wet comb with the lice comb using the essential oil lice treatment. The essential oils work to stun and kill the lice so they don’t crawl around.* It also makes your combing efforts more effective. The conditioning coconut and essential oil blend loosens the eggs that are stuck on hair shafts and on the scalp.* Take the hair, one segment at a time, and apply the mixture close to the scalp, then thoroughly comb that segment. Repeat. Do this once a day until lice are gone.

Tea Tree Oil Spray Also Kills Lice

In addition to wet combing, you can use a small spray bottle with diluted tea tree oil to kill lice.* Spray it on the hair close to the scalp. If you want to do more of the conditioner, you can massage throughout the hair and cover hair with a disposable cap for thirty minutes before shampooing and rinsing well.

Congrats on keeping those chemicals away — and also getting rid of lice!*

*This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any disease.