it was unfortunate i had to research these products in the first place, but my three year old came home scratching one day and lo and behold... EW!!!!! After a few days of using the crappy, painful plastic combs that come with lice removal kits, I was sent this way by a forum thread of moms who'd dealt with this before. My eyes were kind of swimming, actually, as there are a million and one different brands of these combs, all of which look pretty much the same. So, since we could only douse our heads in chemicals once every seven days, i went to war with a lot of natural solutions - and one of them included similar ingredients to Fairy Tales spray, and I think that's why I went ahead and chose this comb (that and, well, the name... the name...) It's also why I only gave it 4 out of five stars - because I really just can't see the difference between this and other combs that look just like it, other than the packaging. Turns out, covering our heads in coconut oil and a variety of essential oils worked better than the nastiest chemicals you could buy at the drug store, and made me feel a lot safer about having to treat my three year old for this issue. She looked ridiculously cute in a shower cap, too. And when the comb arrived, I was happy at the ease with which it slipped through my daughter's poor, abused hair in a way that awful, stupid plastic comb never could, and how much gunk it picked up out of there. Then, I took it to MY hair. Friends, I have hair to the middle of my back. It is thick with large corkscrew curls. Suffice it to say, combing it for nits with that little plastic comb from the kit was about as possible as getting an elephant to sit in a church pew. This comb was FAR, FAR easier to work with. I also noticed something else - I had a bit of dandruff after the lice chemical treatment. My scalp reacted terribly to the stuff and flaked quite a bit in my obsessive treatment process (first chemicals, then a natural treatment on both of us EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A WEEK, because this is the first time in 40 years I have ever encountered lice) - so, I actually used this comb to do a quick dandruff removal fix on my way out the door and it worked wonderfully for that, too. Who knew...
