About the Lice Shack Mississauga
Who We Are And What We Stand For.
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What's most important to me-is family. So, I decided to make our business a family-based affair. As we provide a service for an issue that affects mainly children, who are the most valued in the family dynamics, I feel strongly that the quality of service we provide to our valued clients and children, must be based on:
Warmth, comfort, kindness, family discussion, laughter, relax, education and ease.
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So after realizing that this is a very sacred and special process, I concluded that our clinic should be more like a home to help ease some of the stress on the family due to the deep-seated stigma of head lice and nits.
In addition, no one budgets for lice and nits removal, therefore our cost should be affordable. In a society where it's easy to fall in the trap of spending for quick ineffective fixes, I follow the Keep It Simple method, the best way to address head lice and nits removal. Our products are natural, safe, and easy to use.
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Much time was put into researching the facts of lice. We emphasize the importance of educating our clients about the truth of head lice and nits, in order to alleviate some of the stress/fears and to remove the age-old stigma caused by the confusion between human head lice and human body lice.
We at The Lice Shack do this because we care!
My Story
My name is Deborah and I come from the beautiful, tropical country of Guyana in South America. When I was little, I experienced and learned the process of staying lice-free because of my mother. Each morning, my mother would detangle my siblings' and I's hair, and use a fine-tooth comb to comb through while grooming us for school.
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When we arrived in Canada, many years ago, I thought we never had to worry about head lice ever again. One day, my younger sister was sent home from school due to head lice. From then onwards, I became the family resident head lice and nits remover. Luckily, the need for lice and nit pickings in the family was quite scarce. Life happened and I was looking for a change.
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One day one of my meditation friends, informed us that she was going to comb out for head lice with a friend. We laughed and joked about it, as I never realized the need for lice and nit pickers. Where I came from, we did that for free. Basically, we imitated the monkeys, each afternoon, friends and family would sit on steps behind each other and check heads for nits and lice.
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Nevertheless, I went home and thought about the lice and nit-picking and knew that I enjoyed doing it. Needless to say, after speaking with my friend, I spoke with a lady my friend referred me to and started to go to the client's home for head lice and nits removal in order to see if I would enjoy it. Well, I was hooked on the whole concept.
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In June of 2015, I opened The Lice Shack.