Fleas (Fleas in hair)

Believe it or not, it is actually quite possible for fleas to jump on your hair as well. Especially if your environment is highly infested, or in case you are sleeping with your pet (if you have one). That is why it is of high importance that you should treat your surroundings too, because even if you eliminate them from your hair, the new wave of fleas will stike right back at you.

For this treatment, you will need:

• 1 tablespoon of baking soda
• spray bottle (a brand-new one since there might be chemical leftovers if the bottle originally belonged to a cleaning agent)
• 2 cups of clean, warm water
• plastic bag or a shower cap
• flea/lice comb

Mix them together and shake the mixture well. You should spray your hair with this baking soda-water mixture thoroughly, avoiding your eyes. Rub the mixture into your hair and cover it with a plastic bag or a shower cap in case you have one with you. The effect should take around 15 minutes before the fleas along with their eggs get successfully affected.

Before combing through the dead bodies of the fleas and their eggs, make sure to rinse your hair properly with warm running water. When combing through your hair, start from the roots sliding towards the ends, which will help exctract the remains of the fleas effectively. Repeat the rinsing once again or after every combing step. It should solve the problem.

Yet another useful side of the apple cider vinegar. This method usually goes hand in hand with washing your hair with a baking soda or a lemon-scented dish soap, and combing your hair after your rinse it. But you can go with this method even without applying these two previously mentioned methods.

It is thanks to the acidic nature of the vinegar, which allows this method to stand on its own.

In order to succeed in forcing the fleas to vanish from your hair, first you will need to:

• wash it, or rather rinse it with a warm jet of water
• you can comb your hair as well, with a fine-toothed comb,starting from the roots and finishing at the ends
• then, you should apply some apple cider vinegar to your hair and let it soak under a shower cap or a plastic bag, for approximately 15 minutes

Even in this method, combing your hair plays a major part in a successful outcome of the process. Therefore, you are to:

• comb your hair before covering it with cap

By carefully combing your hair from the top to the ends, you are equally spreading the vinegar throughout your hairs and by doing so, gradually changing the acidity of your hair and the scalp. This step makes it difficult for the fleas to persist, since the nature of their environment is changing and they are pushed out of their balance, and ultimately choked by the cap which traps them inside the improvised gas chamber.

It might sound strange, but it helps a lot. A lemon-scented dish soap can effectively do harm to the fleas lost in your hair. But you should avoid washing your hair with dishwashing detergent instead, since it is much stronger chemical and can therefore trigger an allergic reaction, or skin irritation.

You should apply a handful of soap to your hair and rub it thoroughly, as though you were washing your hair with your regular shampoo. There is no need to keep it on your hair for too long. Simply rinse your hair with warm water and for the better effect, you might as well use a  fine-toothed, starting from the roots and ending at the ends. Combing should be repeated at least one more time before resting assured the pests have been eliminated properly.