Santa Monica Head Lice Removal

Most Santa Monica families meet us the same way. A notice comes home from school, or a parent finds something while brushing hair before bed, and suddenly a Tuesday evening has a very different shape than it did an hour ago.

We treat head lice in your home. There is no drive, no waiting room, and no explaining to anyone why you are there. That has been the arrangement since Amy Goldreyer started The Hair Whisperers in 2007.

We already work this side of town

Santa Monica is a short drive for us, and we cover all of it: Ocean Park and Sunset Park in the south, the Pico district, Wilshire Montana, and the streets north of Montana Avenue. We work the surrounding neighborhoods just as often, so if the problem has already travelled to cousins in Venice or Brentwood, we can usually see everyone in the same stretch of time rather than across three separate appointments.

The whole household, not one child

We check every head in the house. This is the part families most often skip on their own, and it is the reason lice comes back. An adult can carry lice for weeks without much itching, and a sibling who has not complained yet is frequently already infested.

Because we charge by the hour rather than by the person, adding those extra checks costs very little. A parent who turns out to be clear takes a few minutes. The time on the bill is driven by hair length, hair thickness, and how established the infestation is.

What we actually do

Treatment is mechanical rather than chemical. We comb systematically with a proper lice comb, section by section, using a patented oil to loosen eggs from the hair shaft. Over the counter shampoos claim to kill everything on contact and routinely do not, particularly with the resistant strains now common in California. Combing removes what a shampoo leaves behind.

We schedule into the evening and on weekends, because the day a family discovers lice is rarely a day they can clear their calendar.

Every treatment carries a fourteen day guarantee.

Request a visit

Send us a message describing what you have found and how many people are in the house. We will tell you what the visit involves and roughly how long to set aside.