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anti itch spray?

Dread Maintenance

I always have a little spray bottle in my bathroom with rosemary/treatree/peppermint oil in it. It's about a 6-8oz bottle. Add a healthy squirt of jojoba oil. then 5-10 drops of the teatree and rosemary. about about 5 of the peppermint. fill the rest of the bottle up with water and shake well before using it. The peppermint is what is going to relieve most of the itching, but too much of it will burn and irritate your skin. All essential oils are pretty caustic to your skin. That's why you should always dilute them with either tons of water or jojoba/sweet almond oil.

brittle dreads

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Lavender is a natural anti-bacterial. If mold is growing, the Lavender should help kill it. The vinegar will help remove it.

If the Lavender doesn't work, a good long soak in water with the wax-b-gone and a healthy amount of clove oil should really help kill the mold/mildew and start removing the wax.

Remember, though, that the wax has been in there for years. Over that time, is got compressed, melted a bit in heat, and is now deep down inside your locks. 1 session will not get all of the wax out. This is an ongoing process, that can take months. Every time you wash your hair, use the wax-b-gone first. Soak them and work it into your locks. Then do your normal wash to remove what you can.

One wants to be two?

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Mine are 6 years old. I have one on the back right of my head that always tries to be 2. But as it grows and matures it still forms into 1. It may become a bit flatter than the others, but it'll still knot into 1 lock for the main part of the body.

Just leave it be. If it starts to hurt or pull tightly on your scalp, we can help you separate them, but until then, just don't worry about it

Not alot of dreads

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Take a look at mine. I have the same issue as you. So see what the new babies on top of my head look like. The new ones that grow will be a bit shorter, but they will eventually grow out and fill in the top of your head

A up, how we doin?

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It's not difficult. Drying really fat locks just takes some extra time. I have a few good tips on how to speed up this process. It just deals with wringing them out a few times in different intervals and then how to blow dry them if you need to.

A up, how we doin?

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Welcome. but there's no need to TnR the tips over and over. They should be loose. Loose tips helps the water drain out of them when you wash. And they are only a few months old, right? So the whole lock is going to loosen up and tighten and loosen and tighten over the next few months. Every time you reTnR them, you are setting the progress back to day 1. They won't actually mature if you keep making them babies again.

I can't tell from you picture, but if you are only redoing the tips, are you using rubber bands on them? If so, stop. Rubber bands restrict movement, cause weak spots, and can get sucked into your locks where they will break down and start to rot causing mold and mildew in your locks.

Good luck. We're all here to help and answer and questions you've got, and give any moral support you may need

Braiding?

Dreading Methods

If you left the braid in, they would eventually become locks. But not for a while because they would need to untangle themselves a bit first so they can start to knot. If that's what you are asking. But this would not be natural.

If you mean, would braiding help kink up your hair a bit, so when you took the braids out, they'd be more likely to form locks? In a way, yes. But not so much that it would speed up the process by more than a few days/weeks. They might be mature at 11 months instead of a year.

tapatalk for dreadlockssite beta testers needed

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Maybe not, but that link does hook me up with a site I may be interested in very soon

hard/soft water?

Dread Maintenance

You don't even really need to cool the tube down with anything. Get about 15-20 feet of tubing and paint it white. Then coil it so it is only about 3 feet long. Paint the hard water tank black. The black will absorb heat boiling the water. The white tube will reflect light cooling the water,

Just make sure that the hard water tank is a few inches above the distilled water tank

hard/soft water?

Dread Maintenance

Hard water means that there are hard minerals in your water. It's not bad for you. It just means that there in calcium, limestone, or other minerals floating around. Soft water is just more filtered. Many countries or parts of countries that have large mineral deposits have hard water. You can safely drink it without any heath side effects. But it tastes more metallic.

Those minerals keep certain soaps and cleaners from dissolving in the water. Boiling it is not enough, though. You need to pour off the pure water on top and use that. If you just boil it and then stir it up with your BS, you are reintroducing the minerals back into the water. You need to slowly pour off as much water as you can without remixing the minerals left at the bottom.

You could also distill your own water. Youtube has plenty of videos on how to make your owndistillery out of household items for cheap