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"Everything I Used to Treat and Prevent the Spread of Lice While Living With 27 Other People"
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"Everything I Used to Treat and Prevent the Spread of Lice While Living With 27 Other People"
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READ FULL ARTICLELice is already a nuisance for many parents, but now over-the-counter treatments aren't working. Doctors discuss the best line of defense against lice.
WATCH SEGMENTSettle It For Good: Should You Worry? The New Mutant Super Lice Attacking Adults
WATCH SEGMENTATLANTA, Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In Atlanta, it seems everyone has a chance to express their personalities. Music, art, fashion, and culture intertwine to create an expressive and dynamic community unlike any...
READ FULL ARTICLESeattle’s upscale Madison Valley neighborhood, with its swanky shops, parks and cafés, might seem like a strange place for a head lice treatment salon ...
READ FULL ARTICLEIt used to be that you had to pour lots of poisonous chemicals onto your child’s head to get rid of the super-resilient bugs we call lice.
Buzz the doorbell at 227 E. 81st St. to enter a cozy salon with red leather chairs, state-of-the-art equipment and the soothing aroma of peppermint oil.
READ FULL ARTICLEHair salons are big business and in recent years, at least one type of salon is booming. Lice removal salons are popping up everywhere, with more than a dozen such salons now operating in the metro ...
READ FULL ARTICLENow that your kids are back to school, you have to think about lice...
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At least a couple times a month, 15-year-old Kennedy Koenig of Portland carefully inspects her hair and scalp in the mirror, looking for lice.
As students head back to school, parents are always bracing for bugs brought home by their kids. But it’s not the cold or flu they need to worry about – it’s a four letter word: lice.
VIEW VIDEOEven celeb kids get head lice and when they do, stars like Heidi Klum and Brooke Shields turn to the Hair Fairies for Lice-removal services and all-natural line of products...
View full articleEven supermodels aren't immune to head lice. Heidi Klum shares her experience with the "lice fairies."
VIEW VIDEO“We have serviced over 15 000 families, 2 million bugs and about 30 million eggs,” Maria Botham, founder and president of Hair Fairies.
VIEW VIDEO"Thanks to Maria Botham… L.A. parents need not suffer in silence. At Hair Fairies, a one-of-a-kind salon in West L.A., kids are debugged in a cheery environment featuring videos, Game Boys and a chair side manner designed to quell the stigma."
READ FULL ARTICLE“In recent years in the U.S., head lice have been developing resistance to the insecticides in over-the-counter treatments…
nit-picking services, where someone manually combs out the lice and their eggs, are another alternative that has been growing in popularity.”
“The company’s Midtown Manhattan salon opened in 2004, and Ms. Botham plans to open others in Seattle, Minneapolis
and Europe.”
“An estimated 12 million Americans get head lice each year, and experts say the lice are becoming more and more immune to over-the-counter and prescription shampoos. As a result, the business of nit-picking is on the rise.”
READ FULL ARTICLE“Professional nit-pickers… fighting on the front lines of an unrelenting affliction they call Super Lice.
VIEW VIDEO“It takes about three hour-long sessions… to do the job - with special herbal shampoos, conditioners and comb-outs.
Poster paints and Game Boys help kids from squirming while the job gets done.”
“When parents come in they’re usually a little frantic... part of the problem is that many of them have been given wrong information... One of our main jobs is to dispel the myths…” Claudia Alvarez, Hair Fairies manager, San Diego.”
READ FULL ARTICLE“There often is confusion as to how lice are spread, what they look like and how to treat them so they don’t return. That’s
why there are businesses like… Hair Fairies, a chain of lice-removal salons.”
“Hair Fairies has distinguished itself by using humor, a child-friendly environment and colorful packaging for its products
in an attempt to deflate the social stigma surrounding lice.”
“It’s a luxury service,” says Botham. “You don’t walk in and feel like you’re in a pediatrician’s office.”
Hair Fairies offering lice removal now at the Shops at Park Lane.
READ FULL ARTICLEClaudia Alvarez, manager at Hair Fairies in La Jolla (858-459-5423; hairfairies.com) told me that the best treatment was careful removal by hand and comb.
READ FULL ARTICLENothing sends a family into a fury like Pediculus humanus capitis–a.k.a. head lice.
READ FULL ARTICLEHair Fairies opened a new location in Fairfield, its seventh nationwide, on March 1.
READ FULL ARTICLE“Trying to avoid head lice is like trying to avoid catching the common cold,” says MariaBotham, president of Hair Fairies, a full-service, clinical salon…
READ FULL ARTICLESummer means letting your hair down, extra sleepovers, and summer camps. But recently I was reminded of the unfortunate reality ...
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