These essential oils can help you prevent infestation and eliminate lice and slow.
Are lice back in your child’s head? Have you seen some slow? Don’t panic. With some good essential oils and oil (to suffocate them), it will be quickly from the past.
Lavender essential oil: the most recommended
True lavender essential oil is the most suitable against lice. “It is a really effective essential oil against lice thanks to its Linalol content which is parasiticide. Lavandin essential oil is also but it is less dosed in active ingredients” Céline Touati, naturopath and nutritherapist tells us.
► Dilute 5 drops of lavender essential oil in thick vegetable oil, olive oil type or coconut oil. Impregnate with wick the hair with this mixture and leave to be placed overnight, or at least an hour, ideally under a bath hat or stretch film. Remove the hat and pass the lice comb to remove any parasites present. Then make a classic or anti -lice shampoo. To be renewed 8 to 15 days later, while the nits give lice.
► Another option: prepare an anti-lounge lotion by putting in olive oil 5 drops of lavender essential oil and 5 drops of rosemary essential oil in Verbénone. To let put at least an hour on the hair.
Tea Tree, lemon, clove essential oil: in addition
Tea tree essential oil (Tea Tree) has antibacterial and antiparasitic virtues, such as Lavender, lemon, cloves and ylang-ylang. You can compose an anti-lounge shampoo with these oils by incorporating 5 drops of each in 250 ml of neutral shampoo.
What essential oils to avoid lice?
In prevention of lice, essential oils of choice are the HE of lavender and lavandin. They are used pure in this case. “Divide 2 to 5 drops of these essential oils at the hair behind the ears and at the nape of the neck” advises Céline Touati. To be carried out every day during lice epidemics at school.
Essential oils to get rid of lice are used diluted in vegetable oil or neutral shampoo. On the other hand, in prevention, you can put them pure (not diluted) on the temples, the edge of the ears and the neck, at the rate of 3 to 5 drops. These are areas deprived by lice since they are warmer than the others.
Contraindications: not before 7 years old
As a precautionary principle, essential oils should not be used in children under the age of 7, pregnant and lactating women. However, the essential oil of true lavender and that of rosemary in Verbénone are suitable for children from the age of 3 years. Lavandin essential oil contains camphor and should not be employed in children under the age of 7. Also be careful if you have allergic terrain. In any case, test an essential oil on a small skin area (wrist, hollow of the elbow) before using it. For a child, you can wait 24 hours to see if a skin reaction appears.
Thanks to Céline Touati, naturopath and nutritherapist in Courbevoie.
