Here’s an idea. According to a nurse from my health department, Lice have a predictable lifespan. If you clean only a few items, then put the other stuff in plastic trash bags, and quarantine them past the end of the lifespan of any nit that should hatch out, you have saved yourself a lot of work. you can also stick your stuff in a deep freeze for a few days. This should also kill any nits, and of course, any adult lice. As I recall, the life span of a louse is about 3 weeks. Leave your stuff in quarantine for a month or more, and you have saved yourself money, hard work, and exposure to toxic chemicals.
@rooeytoo Homeopathy has nothing to do with pink cream rinse that you get off the grocer shelf. There is a homeopathic remedy for head lice, and it maybe it is pink in color, but it is a specific product that you buy for the purpose (I’ve seen it online before).
I have used cream rinse for head lice, but to do so effectively, you have to put something in it that will kill the lice. Tea tree oil is very good for this, although for people with sensitive skin should think twice. I pour a half a small bottle of tea tree oil into a bottle of cream rinse, shake it really well. It should smell very strongly. Then work it thoroughly into the hair. Let it sit for at least 15 minutes, and wash out. As mentioned above, you must interrupt their life cycle. Two months ago, I caught them from my husband’s school. I did not super-clean (I did wash the sheets because they needed them anyway), but I washed with my tea-tree oil cream rinse on a weekly basis until I didn’t itch anymore.
My sister in law lived in England for years, and she said that’s how everyone there dealt with the little critters. She said that head lice was a huge problem there, but that if she used tea tree on the kids this way on a weekly basis, they never got them.