Iappreciatethe concern but I doubt it will give me cancer, really. Cause you know, somehow everything gives you cancer these days. Any pill these days have some writing on it telling us it will perhaps kill us by some chance so.. I just don't know, man. I'll just use it and see what happens.. it's just hair
If I die, I won't blame anyone.
Oh god I dunno if I'm going to take you guys word for that to be completely honest. I'm going to use that shampoo none the less and see what happens. It can't be that bad.
I just bought a soapbar from Lush made out of completely organic stuff and it was recommended by people over at dreadlocktruth.
Ok cool. I just did a deep clean with baking soda and some other stuff suggested at another forum. I'm having it in my hair right now and I can feel the crap just oozing out of my dreads. The water was all "dirty" of the shampoo as well.
I'll be buying proper soapbars tomorrow too!
I've had my dreads for about 3 months and I refused to wash my dreads because I was extremely scared of it getting untangled so I waited a really long time before washing. A few days ago I washed my hair with soap that's for allergic people,recommendedby a friend that has 12 year old dreadlocks.
After showering and drying the dreads, they felt gooey inside and my roommate said that it's possibly because it's still sort of wet inside so I blowdryed my hair to really get it dry before going to bed. The next day they were still feeling weird and I was starting to worry. Later that day I ripped a dread open to see if there's anything inside and I find these small white dots all over the place and when I touched it, it felt really slimy.
Is this resedue from the shampoo or is it something else? I'm freaked that it'd be mold or something but my hair doesn't smell bad at all.
Here's the ingredients in the shampoo by the way:
Aqua, sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Citric Acid, Behenoyl PG-Trimonium Chloride, Hexlene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Benzoate, Sorbic Acid.
That doesn't sound very natural to me but it claims to be 0% Perfume/Colorants/Parabens and my friend uses it and he has awesome dreadlocks. Why isn't this working for me?
What should I do? How do I get this shit out of my hair!?
As for resectioning. Should I just rip them apart from each other? I've had a few where the dread kind of split at the root so I tore them apart, ended up being quite small dreads. But I left them small and my thoughts were to leave them and let them congo to bigger dreads eventually. Is this correct or am I crazy?
How many dreads are too few? I started with like 28 and I think I have well over 30 now after splitting so many.
Over a week in now. I took a shower today and my dreads look like crap. I also started feeling sections that had like 2 dreaded roots being seperated so to me it felt like the best thing to do is to untangle these two and let them dread on their own.
I also used to have rubberbands in my hair to keep themseparatedand easier to maintain. I took them out, took a shower andseparatedthese sections from each other. Now my hair is really messy at the back of my head with craploads of loose hairs and small baby dreads and I fear that my hair will end being a big knotted lump at the back.
So my question to you is; should I be worried?
See? It looks completely horrid.
Trust me, I do have patience, I'm just worried that I'm doing things wrong and my dreads will end up cut and in the trash.
