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You bathe and you shampoo your hair. There’s absolutely no chance you could get head lice, right? Wrong. Head lice love a clean head of hair—it’s where they live. The good news is that it’s not the end of the world. Head lice aren’t particularly dangerous—they’re just really gross. You need to know how to kill head lice.