dread wax dangers dreadwax maybe deadly
I have always wondered about the added flammability caused by dread wax use. Today a test was done to determine just how much of a fire hazard dreadwax really was.
Yesterday a member who had used dread wax and had to start over as most dreadwax users end up having to do, was frustrated while trying to start a campfire with wet green wood.
I recomemded he try a thin layer of dread wax on the wood then light the dreadwax coated wood.
The results:
the wet green wood burst into flames easily burning hot burning long.
most of you are already aware of
The dangers of dread wax in dreads
- dread wax glues hair together to look more dreaded then it is while drastically slowing or preventing actual dreading by preventing movement needed for knot formation.
- dreadwax is hydrophobic which means it resists all efforts to remove it through washing and has been known to leave nasty wax buildup even after 10 years of repeated washings.
- dread wax makes dreads stiff and sticky and gross it is the number 1 cause of dreads being cut.
- dreadwax traps dirt and moisture and may cause mold mildew dread rot pimples and breakouts clogged pores ruined pillows clothes and furniture.
the dangers of dreadwax to health
Fire hazard:
- dread wax like hairspray increases the flammability of dreadlocks, dreadlocks are usually very hard to catch on fire like wet wood. Hair itself will flare up very easily but without any flammable products will extinguish itself very quickly without much harm. Dreadlocks (without dread wax) are hard to light even if they come in direct contact with large fires, hair compacted is more like wood and hard to light, if you shave wood into hairlike fibres (esentialy paper) will ignite easily. Dread wax added to the dreadlocks makes it ignite easier, burn hotter and longer.
- dreadwax burns not as a solid or liquid but as a gas, in a candle (not referring to waxed dread here) the wick is lit but hardly burns it provides the heat needed to turn wax to liquid, and to gas, the gas keeps the flame burning hour after hour. In a dreadlock the entire dread is a wick that will burn far hotter far faster then the string in a candle this can cause rapid heating of the wax within the dread to the point of boiling (by this time the brain will be boiling as well and you will be experiencing a very painful death) at the point where wax boils the wick, or dread is no longer needed as the wax itself will burst into a massive flame with no wick needed. If water is thrown on a fire that consists of boiling wax a huge fireball will shoot 6 feet in the air, outdoors this isnt an issue indoors it will spread across the ceiling possibly igniting nearby curtains. as well as tiny flame balls splatter in all directions.
As far as i am aware no deaths gave been attributed to dread wax use (i havent bothered to check admittedly) but it is perfectly clear that it does indeed pressent a clear danger to the user
remember micheal jackson and how just the heat of a light ignighted his hairsprayd hair?
how many dreadheads smoke?
or hang out by fires?
a wax free dread will not burn easily if anything the outter fuzz wil burn off
but a waxed dread?\
if wet green wood can be lit with a match
why not a dread
food for thought b4 u create yourself some candles (literaly)
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updated by @soaring-eagle: 10/02/21 01:45:37AM