She was so sure olive oil would do it -- honestly, she's only 40 years old, you'd think she'd listen to her mother, wouldn't you? 
But anyway, that's what the Organic Mommies in her circle swear by. They also told her she only had to bag the pillows and blankets for 2 weeks instead of a month.
The 11 year old has really thick long hair, and after awhile she had to admit this was not working, and discovered, as she was combing away, that he had hundreds and hundreds of lice. Ew. So she set to work with one of the more powerful over the counter cures and killed them dead.
After the first go-round with my daughter and her brother, when I almost went blind searching for nits, I resorted to treating the kids as soon as I got a note from the school that someone in their classroom had lice. Bagged all the stuff that couldn't be washed. Did this repeatedly until they left grade school and outgrew the habits that make grade-schoolers so susceptible to sharing bugs.
I wonder, though, if Vick's Vapo-Rub would work as well as Campho-Phenique? It doesn't have phenol, but it does have camphor.
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