Re: Head lice

Guy King <guy.king@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

from Lisa <lisa_curry@xxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

Neem oil is said to be pretty effective against them, so I've heard. I
know a couple of peeps who swear by it. And not being an essential oil,
it's considered quite safe to use neat, TAAW.

There's a bit of thing that doesn't cut roses in there.

????

Non-sequitur.

I can't see what "being an essential oil" has to do with safety.
Eucalyptus oil, for example, is toxic if ingested, and some other oils
can sensitise the skin to UV.

All essential oils, in their tiny little extremely zbarlous bottles, are
toxic when ingested. (The dose is of course significant: you won't get adverse
effects from a fraction of, say, a drop of "commercial" grade peppermint oil,
but a drop of the real stuff? Even peppermint? Whoa, don't.)

Most essential oils are also strong allergenics, if applied to the skin
undiluted. UV, shrug, that's a minor inconvenience if you now have to avoid
all and any lavender, or tea tree, or citrus products, cos you've applied
them neat (= undiluted) to your skin for a few weeks or months, and are now
rabidly allergic to them.

Of course, most of what the great unwashed masses get is prediluted, either with
alcohol (or other evaporating more or less nontoxic solvents) or with fatty
oils.

In other words, carry on, nothing to see here.

Oh, and I'd like a show of hands: anybody here know of an aromatherapist who's
still working full-time as an aromatherapist five years down the line? No? I'm
not surprised. Trouble is, essential oils are solvents, and constant exposure
will do your liver in much like constant exposure to alcohol (or glue, or
gasoline, or hairdresser's chemicals, or a host of other solvents) does.

Hetta (Peppermint and eucalyptus and so on candies are extremely diluted. They
contain almost as little essential oil as the leaf that oil was extracted from.)

--
Henriette Kress, AHG Helsinki, Finland
Henriette's herbal homepage: http://www.henriettesherbal.com
.

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