HiI started dreads 1 1/2 months ago by backcombing and waxing using dreadhead stuff. I stopped waxing about 3 weeks ago after visiting this site. Some of my very fine, straight hair is nicely dreading but many are dreading at the tips, maybe 2 inches of dread, but are straight hair (undreaded) from there to the roots, like 6 inches. My question is will it still dread eventually? Are there things I can/should do to help it along? All I have been doing is washing with dreadhead shampoo every couple of days. I have to go back to work in about a month and would like it to look as far along as possible like then but I only care a little =)thanksSteve
updated by @steve-moore: 01/13/15 08:42:53PM
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@steve-moore
14 years ago
5 posts
@soaring-eagle
14 years ago
29,640 posts
yea get allll the wax out sleep on a wool sweater or wool pillowcase or sleep in a wool tamsea salt sprays or if u wasted money on the dreadhead accelerator thats just 2 cents worth of sea salt for 10 bucksif all the wax is out it will dread finewool helps alot
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@steve-moore
14 years ago
5 posts
I didnt wax much. Will it do any harm to just let the few that still have wax just wear out?So pretty much just keep washing with Dreahead soap as I have plenty, separate them after a shower, salt spray, and use some wool huh? If there is anything else please let me know. Thanks for the help so far!!
@naturalwomyn
14 years ago
849 posts
It will hinder the knotting if you have wax gluing your hair together still. Try doing the wax removal and I bet you'll see a noticeable difference. Clean, wax free hair really does dread faster! Many Blessings Steve Moore said:
I didnt wax much. Will it do any harm to just let the few that still have wax just wear out?
So pretty much just keep washing with Dreahead soap as I have plenty, separate them after a shower, salt spray, and use some wool huh? If there is anything else please let me know. Thanks for the help so far!!
Sure you can not remove it, but it's not gonna come out on it's own...and it will slow your progress..look, read this http://www.dreadlockssite.com/profiles/blogs/my-bald-conclusion-on-...
@soaring-eagle
14 years ago
29,640 posts
yea wax is almost impossible to remove its evil crap u gottas be agressive to remove itand dreadhead shampoo pretty much sux toou gotta use a while lot to do any good and it causes dandruff plus has sls which is linked to cancer and the american cancer society has started a campain to have it removed from all cosmetics and good ol jonny instead of complying (theress 3 or 4 other well known cancer groups against it too) jonny refused to remove it instead denies there is a linkhmm i wonder if a brain tumor would explain the way he talks
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@jeffree-vega
14 years ago
66 posts
that would explain why he's so full of contradiction and BS soaringeagle said:
yea wax is almost impossible to remove its evil crap u gottas be agressive to remove it
and dreadhead shampoo pretty much sux too
u gotta use a while lot to do any good and it causes dandruff plus has sls which is linked to cancer and the american cancer society has started a campain to have it removed from all cosmetics and good ol jonny instead of complying (theress 3 or 4 other well known cancer groups against it too) jonny refused to remove it instead denies there is a link
hmm i wonder if a brain tumor would explain the way he talks