Slummy Mummy - A question of nits

Nits be gone! © Vosene Kids

Nits.

Yuk.

They’re the bane of every parent’s life. Everyone dreads that letter home from school - ‘someone in the class has nits, please check your child’s hair thoroughly.’ Someone has nits. You feel immediately like everyone’s pointing at you, even though the whole class had exactly the same letter. It makes me itchy just thinking about it.

Not being terribly good at washing my children frequently, I used to think I’d escape nits - they do love clean hair after all, so we are told again and again. I soon learnt though that this is just a line to make parents feel better about themselves, and that not washing Belle’s hair for a week at a time definitely wasn’t enough of a precaution.

We’ve struggled a lot in the past with nits and lice. As a family, we all have very fine hair, so the combs just don’t seem to do the trick - most combs don’t have teeth narrow enough to catch the eggs, and there was always a lot of combing but very little in the way of results. The usual lotions and potions never seemed to have much effect either, the nits having evolved over the last ten or so years into super-beasts, able to withstand even the harshest of chemicals.

Scratchy © Photodisc

Fortunately, we don’t have nits at the moment, and quite frankly I want to keep it that way. So when Vosene asked if I wanted to try their new nit-busting prevention pack I leapt at the chance. Like a louse leaping greedily between heads in a playgroup.

Vosene’s new range is designed as a prevention rather than a cure, and if I were a head louse, the pungent pong of tea tree alone would be enough to make me think twice before making the jump. We’ve been trying out the 3-in-1 conditioning shampoo and the leave-in spray. Both contain Tea Tree oil and Lemon Eucalyptus and are designed to repel the nits in the first place rather than kill any already there.

So what can I say about them? Well, they encouraged Belle to actually ask to have a bath, just so she could try them out, so that has to be a good thing. We’ve been using it for a week now, and we definitely don’t have nits (I checked), and Belle’s hair is lovely and shiny. She’s even taken to blow drying it every night with a big round brush.

I have noticed myself scratching my head as I’ve been writing this, but that purely psychological. Surely...

You can try out Vosene Kids shampoo for yourself by visiting the nitwatch area of their website. There are 1,000 free samples up for grabs every week.

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By Jo Middleton

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