Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

If you are looking up this product please accept my condolences. If you or anyone in your family have lice you need this comb. Period. I've got over a year and a half of unwanted experience in the lice department. Lots of mistakes but I finally got it right. Here is how I got finally got rid of the lice. You can stop after this one word: Combing. In the past I used brand name and generic Rid. Rid gives you a false sense that the bugs and nit eggs are dead, retreat in 10 days and all will be good. Not true. I will not use Rid ever again, save your money. The key to lice is combing, not the product. I will use Cetaphil or another easy to wash out substance if we ever get lice again. I normally lean towards natural products but when it comes to lice my thought is "KILL-KILL-KILL!" so pesticides is what I did. Come to learn the hard way after a long time, the pesticides do not work. You may think they work but they don't. The key to the whole lice thing is combing. You can use an array of products but, I'll shout it from the mountain top, the key is combing. Upon discovery of lice is to make the live crawling bugs immobile so you can comb them out. If I'm already dealing with bugs I don't want to deal with kids and greasy hair so I will probably not use a greasy product although if it's 9:30pm when I find them and I'm low on Cetaphil, you can bet I will dump mayonnaise on their heads. My kids don't want to go to school with knowing they had lice and now have greasy hair. Lice was very embarrassing for all of us. While combing I dunked the metal tines into boiling hot water in a bowl after every single pass through a tiny section of hair. This part took forever and I had to change the water frequently and use a toothbrush every so often to OCD get the eggs out from between the metal tines but the comb is the answer, this is what actually works. This comb does not pull the hair out. It passes easily through the hair but captures eggs with the tines. I even did my own hair easily. The kids did not complain at all while I combed. I'd always used the one that came with the kits which you should just throw them away. Since it's easier to use this comb it's also faster which makes everyone happy. After combing out the bugs, I combed our hair daily using a homemade Tea Tree Oil and water spray, dunking the comb back in boiling water after every pass until I found no eggs in the water for 3 days in a row, then I repeated it again every few days for a month! This may sound obsessive but if you know what we have been through I was OVER getting lice. It gets easier as you do this so it becomes less time consuming. I could do my long hair daughter, son and myself with shoulder length hair in about :30-:35 minutes. Lice is a problem you have to stay on top of. Do not treat and think you got them all. You haven't. I went the complete lifecycle which can be 30 or so days. You want to get rid of the live bugs currently laying eggs and get rid of the eggs attached to the hair shaft before they hatch. If you miss eggs and they hatch, it's ok you have 10 days (I erred from 7-12 days) to get the bug before they mature and begin to lay eggs. This is why the retreat is around 10 days after the first treatment. Make sense? How do you get rid of the bugs and eggs? Once again: Combing. It's not the products you put on the hair, it's the combing, combing combing. I made my mistake by stopping at the 10 day retreat trusting the product and the cheap plastic comb worked. I ordered this comb with Prime and received it on day 3 after I had combed each day with the plastic comb. I was amazed by the amount of live nits (the black ones, not the already hatched ones) this comb pulled out. I wish someone had told me about this comb the very first time we got lice. It's hard preventing lice but this comb makes it much easier getting rid of them. My backstory: We got lice near the end of 2nd grade. We, meaning my daughter got it and passed it to little brother and to me. My husband uses a sticky hair product so, of course, he was lucky enough to never get them during this whole terrible experience. I used Rid everytime to kill the lice and the plastic cheap comb to get the nits out. The cheap plastic comb pulls hair out, kids get upset, get very angry, it hurts them and doesn't get all the nits. I bought a metal comb in a kit but it pulled worse than the plastic one. 10 days later I would repeat the Rid, do another comb through and called it a successful eradication......until 4-6 weeks later when we would have another outbreak. I am a full time working mom so it seems that I blink and weeks go by. I didn't put 2 & 2 together to realize we were never actually getting 100% clear of them. I think I'm pretty on top of things but I wish I had one spot to go to find out all this information on lice. Websites are either trying to sell me an expensive product or it's either the natural way to smother them with mayo or Cetaphil and then there is the bad mom who use pesticides (you know which one I fell into). After multiple infestations I didn't care about natural, I just want them dead so I stayed with pesticides and my cheap comb. I read about lice being resistant to pesticide but I didn't think that would be us until I found live bugs still after treatment so that is very true, it happened to us. The reviews on this comb actually offered me the most advice in one spot. From September to April this school year we battled lice. In November, after 2 outbreaks, we took the kids to the ladies who get rid of lice as their job. That treatment and the 10 day follow up was $400ish. End of December we had another outbreak although they were declared lice free from the people I paid money too. January, March and April we got lice again. It didn't dawn on me to keep track of the lifecycle timeline (I don't have time to anyway!) so I didn't realize that I was not breaking the lifecycle with completely getting rid of all the eggs. I kept blaming other kids in the class. I was OVER all this in April when I found them at 9:30pm when we were already way past bedtime on a school night. After I poured a big glass of wine, I got the iPad, put on Netflix, go again with my pesticide Rid routine while husband washes all the sheets, quarantines stuffed animals, pillows, etc. The next morning I found live bugs in their hair. The pesticide didn't work! That brought me to this comb. There had to be something better. I followed everything I explained, using an essential oil blend of Tea Tree, geranium, lavender mix in water in a spray bottle. They get sprayed every morning now with the essential oil. Thanks for reading my long review, it's more of a what worked for me and it starts with this comb. I also think the oil blend spray will help deter them.