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I Can Loosen, How Do I Eliminate Head Lice?Question by Elle (Ventura, CA) on 11/27/2006
Replied by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand)
You don't need a lice shampoo. The reason why these are not effective is that they generate better sales. If it is cured in one bottle, they can only sell one bottle. If it takes about 10 bottles to cure it, they can sell 10 bottles, but you need plenty of promotion and advertising to keep the sales up. One funny story running around decades ago was a company that wanted to try to make a lice shampoo that only kill the lice, but not the eggs. Of course they want to find a way to make sure the eggs get delayed hatching! Whether that story was true or not, the researcher I talked to was getting well paid to find the solution! I was very stupid guy and cannot do that except just kill it, which by company standards I think is child's play.
I remember talking to one owner who makes a lot of money on furniture and he mentioned to maximize profit, he made sure that these furniture were engineered to breakdown right after the warranty period.
It is not just furniture we are now talking about, but one light bulb company made a light bulb that lasts almost forever. The company went out of business for nearly a century. One light bulb, last I heard was still shining after 80 years!
Apparently those who do buy them, will never come and buy another one, and since they were happy with that, they didn't tell their friends to buy them either. So the company was closed and now we are stuck with light bulbs that you keep buying them over and over again.
Replied by Lois (Fayetteville, Arkansas) on 05/10/2013
Replied by Mary (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) on 05/12/2013
Anyhoo, sorry about the run on but I cannot use peroxide on my hair as it bleaches it and I am a brunnett. Sigh!
Thanks for any input!!
Replied by Joy (Battleground, Wash) on 05/12/2013
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