Can swimming in saltwater everyday be damaging?
General Questions
Thanks to all of you! This helps a lot! Justin, I am insanely jealous of you being a scuba instructor, that sounds like a dream job. Thanks again!!
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Can swimming in saltwater everyday be damaging?
General Questions
I've had my dreads for about 2 and a half months. I'm moving to a little island in Spain in September and I'll be hopefully swimming once if not twice a day in the sea. My dreads will be about 6 months old then and my question is that will swimming in saltwater every day be damaging to my dreads? I know saltwater is really good to speed up the locking process but will swimming so frequently be actually counter-productive or damaging?
updated by @miriam: 01/13/15 09:52:01PM
Help! Do I need to start over?
Help! Save My Dreads
'm 5 weeks into my dread journey. I did the twist and rip method and palm rolled a bit at thebeginningbut not anymore because I want them to develop loops and zig zags and all that funky stuff. I wash them with baking soda and water 2 a week and I sometimes do a sea salt spray. I crocheted them with a 0.5mm crotchet needle about 2 weeks ago to tighten them up. I started at the root and did about half of each of my dreads and I wasn't rough with them at all. At first they were really tight afterwards and after a couple days they were looser and flimsier than they were before I hadcrochetedthem. I read somewhere thatimproperuse of crotchet needles can result in permanent damage. I'm really scared that I will have to comb them out and re-do them. They seem very dry and loose. Please help! Thanks.
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