10 Ways on How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar to Get Rid of Lice

Lice is a type of macro-organism that can be seen with bare eyes, living on our head between the hairs. This tiny animals usually bring uncomfortable feeling around that area because they suck out our blood by biting our head first. Lice will make our head feel like itching and tickled once we found that there is lice on our head. And once we realized we have been carrying lice around, there comes the question on how could there be lice on our head? Here’s why:

Causes of Hair Lice

We are having a physical contact with someone who have already infected with lice – This can be intensely done when we are having a sleep over with them, sharing bed with them, and other possible activity that we do together at an intense time with those who are already had lice earlier because hair lice has a maximum hour of living outside the scalp are only for 48 hours.
We use clothes or another accessories that are infested by hair lice – such as hair ribbons, scarves, hats, jackets, blankets, sportswear, and any other type of clothes.
We use hair tools that are infested with hair lice – We may use it as a shared tools with another person who are already got hair lice, and unfortunately our comb, brush, or even towel, somehow still infested by lice. The lice will move place to our head when we use those tools to help us take care of our hair.
We live in a tropical area – Which often times makes us living in a warm (mostly hot) circumstances. This might be one of the natural reason of having hair lice because they like to live in a warm scalp condition.

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Apple Cider Vinegar Contents

Having those tiny but annoying enough living-things on our scalp, makes us feeling physical discomfort. We will try to seek for options to get rid of lice as soon as possible, from natural ways to a help from chemical fluids until it gone. We do several options just to make sure it gone faster, so it would feel better. And Apple Cider Vinegar is one of the choices we have in ‘natural ways’ group. Here are what Apple Cider Vinegar holds inside it that are good for our hair health:

High level of acidity to help us kill hair lice
Vitamin B1
Vitamin B2
Vinegar
Acetic Acid
Pectin
Magnesium, Chopper, Chloride, Phosphorus, Calcium, Potassium
Sodium
Vitamin A, B, C, and E

How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar to Get Rid of Lice

After knowing what’s inside Apple Cider Vinegar, here’s the time to finally know how to use apple cider vinegar to get rid of lice. And surprisingly this natural way comes up with an addition of another natural ingredients such as onions, garlics, aloe versa, soursop leaves, coconut oils, honey, and also milk.

Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) only:

Step by step:

Prepare the Apple Cider Vinegar and salty water sufficiently
Put it on a proper container (or bowl)
Add a little bit of salty water
Mix it up
Clean your hair with warm water
Rub the mixture onto your hair evenly, wait around 1 hour, and then wash it up with fresh water.

Tips: Do this at least 3 times a week to get a maximum result and your hair lice will all be gone. No more itchy-scalp!

Apple Cider Vinegar with Onions:

Step by step:

Prepare the ACV, onions, and honey in need
Puree the onions with blender or by ponded it
Put the onions puree and ACV onto the bowl and mix it with a little bit of honey
Wash your hair with warm water
Rub the mixture onto your hair evenly, wait around 1 hour, and then wash it up with fresh water.

Tips: You can do this minimum 3 times per week so then it will help you get rid of lice faster and feeling comfortable with healthy hair and scalp again!

Apple Cider Vinegar with Garlics:

Step by step:

Prepare the ACV and garlics
Mashed the garlics with a stone mortar
Put the ACV, mashed garlic onto the bowl and add a little water. Mix it well
Wash your hair with warm water
Rub the mixture onto your hair evenly, wait around 30 minutes, and then wash it up with fresh water.

Tips: Do this weekly at least 3 times per week. And it is suggested to wash your hair and scalp with shampoo again, right after you finish this ACV with Garlics natural treatment so then the strong odor from the garlics won’t stay for too long.

Apple Cider Vinegar with Soursop Leaf:

Step by step:

Prepare the ACV and around 7 leaves from soursop tree
Blend the soursop leaves with a help from blender
Put the ACV and the blended soursop leaves onto the bowl
Mix until it evenly mixed
Wash your hair with warm water
Rub the mixture onto your hair evenly, wait around 1 hour, and then wash it up with fresh water.

Tips: Do this treatment maximum 3 times a week. And if you are confused on where to find or purchase the soursop leaves, it can be found at nearest traditional market or supermarket. But if there isn’t any, buying it online can be the fastest solution!

Apple Cider Vinegar with Aloe Vera:

How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar to Get Rid of Lice:

Prepare the ACV and freshly cut aloe vera
Peel the aloe vera skin and take out only the transparent gel-like part, and crushed in until it turns into aloe vera puree
Put it onto the bowl, add some ACV, and mix it well
Clean your hair with warm water
Rub the mixture onto your hair evenly, wait around 1 hour, and then wash it up with fresh water.

Tips: Aloe vera puree could make your hair and scalp a little stink, so it is suggested to re-clear your hair again with your daily shampoo just to make sure it’s wholly cleaned. Also, it would be better if we could plant the aloe vera plats ourselves just in case we need to do this often, so then we would get fresh aloe vera just in time. And don’t forget to do this treatment min. 3 times a week.

Apple Cider Vinegar with Onions & Coconut Oils:

How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar to Get Rid of Lice:

Prepare the ACV, the coconut oils, honey/milk
Pour down the coconut oil into a bowl with a few honey or milk
Mix until it evenly mixed
Wash your hair with warm water
Rub the mixture onto your hair evenly, wait around 1 hour, and then wash it up with fresh water.

Tips: Do this treatment maximum 3 times a week. And it would be better if we use home-made coconut oil instead of buying it on store or online.

Another Tips to Eradicate Lice

Besides using Apple Cider Vinegar as our habit to fight against lice, fortunately there are other options to try during our treatment to get rid of this disadvantageous animals. And here are some of it:

Using shampoo that contains tea tree oil/yalng ylang/nerolidol inside it – Those compounds are suitable to minimize hair problems such as dandruff, psoriasis, and hair lice
Rub some olive oil and butter – this will blocked lice’s respiratory tract so they can’t breathe, hopefully will be run out of oxygen, and die. But don’t forget to wash your hair with proper shampoo afterwards.
After using our hair comb, dip it into a warm water – Just in case there left some lice between the small gap of comb, we destroy them by dipping it into hot water (around 55°C)
Using shampoo that especially designed to help us destroy hair lice faster such as shampoo containing piretrin, benzyl alcohol, malation, lindane, and so one. – But keep in mind that these type of shampoo need doctor’s prescription to use, and is safe for person above 6 years-old.

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After knowing several tips including how to use apple cider vinegar to get rid of lice, which one you dare to try first? Hopefully this information will help you to destroy lice living on your scalp and make you live more comfortable and confident. Say bye-bye to itchy scalp!