Time will not repair the damage wax caused. You need to gt it out. Normal washing wont do it. You need to get hot water and dawn dish soap. The water should be as hot as you can stand it. Fill a pot or bowl with the water and add a ton of the soap. Dip each lock in the water for a few minutes each and rub them and work the wax out. Hot water helps bring the wax back to a melting point and will make it easier to work it's way out.
Unfortunately, just doing this once will not get all the wax out. You will need to do it over and over again for weeks at the least and months at the longest. It's really hard to tell if all of it is out. So even if you think it is, do it for a while longer to make sure. It will loosen up your locks a lot, but it's worth it to get all the product out.
There are good explanations under the dreaducation tab up top.
As for crocheting. DON'T DO IT! All a crochet does is breaks up your hair into smaller pieces of hair. it weakens each lock up to 30%. Not to mention that you will end up have so many loose frizzy hairs that it will drive you nuts. And then you'll just try to control them more with more crocheting. In the end you won't have long strands of hair tangled into a lock, you'll have a bunch of tiny broken hairs that you can only hope and pray don't break off in the middle of a dreadlock.
I unfortunately used to use dreadhead's wax and after finding this site several months ago I finally threw it away and have been letting my dreaddiez go all natural. I'm hoping to repair the damage that's been done to them by the products i used to use and occasional crocheting. I've really been debating on starting them over naturally or waiting and hoping time will repair them. I love this site--it's too addictive, can't believe i'm just now joining it. 
