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look into the dreadockshampoo bars. but just not the teatree one

heres the sage sweetgrass and cedar 1 as an example

ingredients: saponified oils of organic coconut oil, organic unrefined first press extra virgin olive oil, organic castor bean oil, beer, kaolin clay and organic essential oils.

now i'm not 100% sure that rosemary isnt included in the last "and essential oils"

but i am checking on that now

meanwhile the 'naked' bars about as minimalisticc as it gets, was made for someone who had an alergy to just about all plant based soap ingredients.

Ingredients: saponified oils of organic coconut oil, organic unrefined first press extra virgin olive oil, organic castor bean oil, beer, and china white clay

theres no essential oils at all

have you looked into having your dog treated with homeopathics?

You could do what I'm doing right now; I wash my hair with green tea and rosemary, just make a very strong tea, let it cool down, add some sea salt and rinse your hair with that. Then rinse off with cool water. You could also first use saltwater, then rinse with the tea and just leave that in. Soaking could be a good idea for a deep cleanse. The soap you mentioned doesn't seem too bad though, might be worth a try Though I don't know about soap, oils are alright from what I've read so far, but soap might get into your dreads?

I'd definitely leave your hair alone, let it recover, it might take a while but it's worth it Listen to Soaring Eagle, he has a squirrel on his head, all the great sages do.

i dont think all contain rosemary only the teatree rosemary, which theres a liquid and a bar

my cat reacted to the nag champa like my dreads were catnip! rolling in them  in a state of bliss

The liquid is supposed to be better for loose hair but bars better for mature dreads. As yours are already kind of dreads you probably don't need the liquid.

while shippings high its flat rate so you can get 5 or 6 bars  for same shipping fees so most gt a years supply at a time

as for faith in nature  sulphates are generaly to be avoided

it also has alotta citrics, which would make it too acidic i would think, which would be conditioning and potentialy softens the hair through partial dissolvment like acv does.

ofcourse crochet will only make more and more frizz.. the more broken hairs there are the more lil ends can pop out

GET USED TO LOOSE HAIRS AND FRIZZ

you were lied to when you were told there shouldnt be any! in fact having them is normal healthy and looks best!

lets look at some comparisons

so since these are nice and clean each dread has a soft fuzz covering it (when crochetted they can feel rough not soft the broken hairs making them feel ke brillo) also

have hair (and a squirrel) on my head

now salons will make you think this mane f healthy hairs unacceptable and you should have no loose hairs

this obsession with avoiding loose hairs in some cases (crochet) causes 100 times more, making you a slave to constant crochet

or interlocking/retwisting causes balding

here you see both  notice the guy whos doing the crocheting

his dreads are excessivly  fuzzy from all the broken hairs

stiffness is also a issue with crochet that tends to last along time

now heres a few things

1 aloe will smpooth the frizz temporarily.. but, its a conditioner that will prolounge the frizziness ..in the long term making it more frizzy.

frizz is normal just accept it notice the above photos the frizz wasn't as easy to see till i added a larger version.. point is  hat you inspect your hair much closer then othrs  do  LITTLE FRIZZ CAN ONLY BE SEEN BY YOU WHEN YOU LOOK CLOSELY

stop looking in the mirror altogether

use shadows instead if a dreads sticking up weird  you'll see it in your shadow .. what more do you need to know?

depending on the stiffness  you might want to conditon and loosen an d ..in fact increase frizz for the time being

once they are loose soft and flexible  using the liquid instead of bar will help  thm dread (as aposed to being woven) ..you may always have more frizz then sommeone who never crochetted

but just stop looking at frizz as being a bad thing it simply means thy are clean, clean dreads look softer, more cuddly

obsession with loose hairs is what led to this total lack of loose hairs

compare that to someone early on whos more loose hair then dread but still looks beautiful and healthy

yo see how loose hairs actualy make the whole look softer more healthy more natural?

Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about the frizz with crocheted dreads. The crochet hook actually snaps all of the hairs in multiple places so you dread is actually lots of small pieces of broken hair that are all trapped together so they can't go anywhere. What happens is as the hair loosens (it should be loose not tight as crocheted dreads are) the broken hairs then poke out of the dread which is what causes the frizz. If you had dreaded by any other way than crochet you wouldn't get that frizz because all of the hairs would still be full length.

All you can really do is just leave them alone and eventually over time the dreads will loosen up enough that the small frizzy hairs will get sucked in.

Or you can do what I did with my crochet dreads and comb them all out.

As for the shampoo I have no idea going from the ingredients list but all I can tell you is I used DreadsUK shampoo and then swithced to Dollylocks shampoo becasue I didn't want to pay to get the Dreadlockshampoo shipped from the US. Eventually I gave in and went for it and the difference was noticable after the first wash. Honestly it really is worth it and I personally wouldn't use any other shampoo now. It might be worth seeing if anyone else in the UK is thinking of ordering some nd then split the cost of the shipping.