Nowadays, there is medicine for just about everything. On the plus side, many age-old ailments are being treated, or at the very least their symptoms can be treated, as to not bother them anymore. However, bacteria and other nasty critters have a bad habit of adapting to modern medicine, especially if it is used incorrectly or in insufficient doses. Head lice have certainly been around as long as there have been humans, but recent advances in medicine brought about a variety of treatments that got rid of them. Unfortunately, head lice can from time to time adapt to these medicines, and then it is time to turn to alternative, natural head lice removal techniques.

Keeping The Chemicals Off

Beyond being a surefire way of treating head lice, natural head lice removal also keeps all of the chemicals found in medicine off of your head. Most of them are harmless, but at least one (lindane found in the medicine Kwell) is known to be toxic, especially to children and seniors. Natural head lice removal is also cheaper than buying medicine, but first you should know some techniques to remove head lice without the use of medicine.

The easiest way to naturally remove head lice is to warm up a towel in your dryer for 20-30 minutes. Wrap the warm towel around your head, and the heat should be sufficient to kill both the lice and their eggs, ending the infestation in a matter of minutes. This is by far the easiest and cheapest method for removing head lice, but it does leave a bit of a window open for some nits (lice eggs) to survive if you're not careful. Therefore, consider an alternative method for natural head lice removal like olive oil. Massage olive oil into the scalp and let it sit there for a few minutes before washing out. Olive oil doesn't poison the lice like medicine or dry them out like a warm towel. Instead, olive oil smothers them so they can't breathe (be warned that water will not affect lice in this way), but it doesn't take care of any of the nits. If you do use olive oil, you'll also need to perform head lice egg removal.

While you'll also want to perform head lice egg removal if you use a warm towel, you'll need to with olive oil to ensure that none of them hatch. If they do, then all of your efforts to get rid of them will have been for nothing. As you can see, there are several easy and cheap methods for natural head lice removal, and they don't involve rubbing toxic chemicals into your scalp. As always, you'll need to check for nits every few days for a couple of weeks to make sure that none survived, but you would need to do that as well if you used medicine.