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Getting Rid of Lice Without Harsh Chemicals | The Pixie Garden Hair Podcast Ep. 03 · The Pixie Garden Hair Podcast

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  Welcome to the PC Garden Care Podcast.
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  I'm Jess here with licensed Cosmetologist,
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  Delina Markland.
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  Delina Lice.
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  Every parent dreads the email from school.
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  I hear you have a story about your own kids.
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  Oh, I do.
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  The school called all of my kids headlice at once
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  and I will be honest with you.
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  My very first instinct was to just cut it all off.
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  Shave it, start over, be done.
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  And then I looked at their faces and I saw pure terror.
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  These were little kids about to lose their hair
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  over something that is honestly so common and so fixable.
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  That was the moment it clicked for me.
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  I am a Cosmetologist.
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  Cutting off a child's hair is not a treatment.
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  It is a panic move.
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  I needed a real method that actually got rid of the lice
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  without traumatizing my kids or dousing their scalps in pesticides.
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  That search is exactly how I landed
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  on what I now stock and recommend.
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  And what is that?
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  The Lice Mama's ultimate lice treatment kit.
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  That is the honest answer and it is the one I hand to clients
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  because it works without the toxicity concerns
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  that come with the old pesticide shampoos.
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  Most parents run to the drug store, grab a permethring kit,
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  and end up doing it three times because lice
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  have built up resistance to those chemicals in a lot of areas.
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  The Lice Mama's kit does not have that problem
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  and I will explain exactly why.
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  So what is different about how it works?
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  It is a two step system and the science is the whole point.
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  Step one is a dimethicone oil.
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  Instead of poisoning the lice with a neurotoxin,
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  it physically coats them and blocks their ability
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  to regulate water.
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  So they suffocate.
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  That is a physical kill, not a chemical one,
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  which means lice cannot build resistance to it
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  the way they do with pesticides.
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  There are clinical studies on dimethicone
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  being essentially 100% ovicidal,
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  meaning it kills the eggs too, not just the live bugs.
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  A pharmacist named Sherry Torcos has cited exactly that.
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  Step two is an enzyme mousse and this is the part
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  that drugstore kits completely miss.
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  What does the enzyme mousse do?
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  Nits, the eggs, are glued to the hair shaft with a protein bond.
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  That glue is the reason you comb and comb and they will not budge.
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  The enzyme mousse dissolves that protein bond,
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  so the nits actually release.
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  Then you go through with the professional stainless steel
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  nit comb that comes in the kit.
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  T, idly space steel tines catch what plastic comb slide right past.
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  That combination, kill the bugs, dissolve the glue,
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  comb out the eggs is why this kit actually finishes the job
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  instead of leaving you to repeat it next week.
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  It comes with the comb then.
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  People do not have to source that separately.
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  Correct.
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  The professional steel nit comb is in the box.
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  That is intentional because the comb is the step most home treatments fail on.
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  The kit is nontoxic, it is kid safe,
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  and it was developed by the professional lice removal specialists at lice,
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  mamas.
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  I stock it specifically because parents in my chair needed something I could
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  recommend without any reservation.
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  If you want a gentle comb for daily detangling on a tender,
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  scratch scalp in between treatments,
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  the bamboo comb from my shop is nice for that,
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  but the kit is the actual treatment.
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  And the two week follow through everyone forgets?
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  That part still matters even with a great kit.
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  Lice eggs hatch on a cycle, so you do not treat once and walk away.
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  Follow the kit instructions,
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  recheck the head and comb again over the next couple of weeks.
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  Wash the bedding and recent hats in hot water and vacuum the couch.
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  Lice die within a day or two off a human head,
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  so you do not need to bag up the whole house.
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  And for any stubborn case or anything medical,
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  talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
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  Nontoxic resistance proof and it comes with the comb that actually finishes the job.
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  The lice mamas ultimate lice treatment kit is at thepixiegarden.com.
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  Thanks for listening to the Pixie Garden Hair Podcast.
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  [Music]