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Itch Itch Itch!!!

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

When you're working with essential oils, Make sure you use an applicator. Jojoba or sweat almond work. Jojoba is probably the best because it's good for your skin already. EO's are caustic to your skin by themselves. Because they are so concentrated, they can cause tons or irritation as well as allergic reactions. If you use an applicator, 1: your'll get more oil for your money because you are cutting down the concentration. 2: Because you are cutting the concentration, they'll be much much more gentle on your skin.

You can get a spray bottle and fill it about 1/4 with jojoba, 20 drop peppermint, 10 drop rosemary, 10 teatrea. fill the rest of the bottle with water. And just shake before each use.

Short hair, Twist n Rip??

Dreading Methods

Not a mistake at all. Twist and Rip is good for any length hair. With hair that short, though, it'll be some time before you see any real progress. I'd recommend TnR and then if you have some beads, put some them on a few. That will keep those ones sectioned away from the ones without beads. They will knot up a little faster that way.

Get yourself some Dr. Bronners or Dreadlockshampoo.com shampoo. Or you can go with the Baking soda/apple cider vinegar wash. Just keep washing to get your hair nice and ready, by stripping the oils away. Liquid is better for when you are starting out. Once they are mature, you can use a bar.

You might here people recommend a sea salt spray, but not how to use it. Do not EVER leave it on your hair for more than an hour. I spray my hair really well with it about an hour before I wash it. Then rinse it out really well. Then use soap to wash.

You should start a journal/timeline. I'd love to see your progress from short hair to locks to long locks.

4 months of natty dreads!

Introduce Yourself

Looking good. After coming them out, your hair was probably so much more kinky and ready to knot. I'm sure that made the process much easier and more smooth. Keep us posted.

Advice on natural method

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I could go the whole wax is evil way too, but really, It's not worth it. Pus it can sometimes come off like a "holier than thou" way.

So yeah there is a new wax remover soap from dreadlockshampoo.com. But you could get some anti bacterial dish soap and lots of hot water. Make a pot of water as a hot as you can handle and squirt a ton of the soap into it. Dip each lock in individually and with your hands work the soap into each lock for a few minutes each. When you dump out the water you'll see how nasty it looks. Just imagine that all that gunk was once in your hair.

Wash your hair afterwards to get the soap out. You will have to do the process before you wash every time. It can take weeks to months get get all the wax out. If even a little bit is left, it can cause mildew and mold in your hair. So even if you think it's all gone, do it a few more times to make sure.

Once all the wax is out, you'll realize that your hair was not that locked up in the first place. After 3 years, there might be some knotting, but no where near as much as you thought.

Like Tara said, the natural method is easy. Just stop combing or doing anything. Just wash and separate. If you need them to look tidy, tie them back or wear abandanna. But just so you know, tieing them back will slow the process down. So whenever you can, let them hang free.

Purkurr´s neglect method

Member Journals and Timelines

Yeah, how you sleep usually has a lot to do with it. Sleeping is great for forming new locks. People who sleep on their back find more growth and change on the back of their head. same with each side. maybe try sleeping on the other side (if you can) to even it out. I know it can be hard. I personally, can't sleep on my right side. Makes me kind of nauseous. That could have something to do with why my most mature ones are on my left and why they seem thicker there, too

Purkurr´s neglect method

Member Journals and Timelines

It has been a while. How goes it? And your hair is looking great

dreadlocks falling out??

General Questions

Do you always have your hair tied back like that? Or at least pretty often?

I have been having the exact same issue with the one lock dead center on my forehead hairline. You can even see it in one of my videos. I make a point to point it out. It's not so prominent in the video, because I recently twisted some hair to try to thicken it up at the root, but to no avail. Since then I have pretty much stopped tieing them back. If I have to, I do it so loosely that they can fall out of the knot easily. I think that it come from when they are tied back that the locks in the very front get pulled a little tighter than others and, bit by bit, hairs get pulled out. You don't really notice it until your root is so thin, like yours is.

I recommend tieing it to the lock closest to it, and for a little while stop pulling your hair back. That means, no hats, bandannas, hair ties. None of it. Just let that one recover and flop around as it pleases. In time it will retangle with the hairs around it and the root will thicken up on it's own

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Help! Save My Dreads

Yeah, if you can get them out, do it. But if not, don't worry so much. I did the interlocking thing more than once and have never lost a lock due to it yet. And that was 5 years ago. What weakened my locks was when I tied a knot in one. Otherwise they are strong as ever. Maybe not as much as if I didn't interlock, but I haven't had any problems

Your locks look fine. I think you're worrying a little more than you need to about one little mistake. That's the beauty of locks. They do tend to fix themselves and take care of themselves.

Being a dready vegetarian :P

Dreads and Diets

I get that there are many different types of vegetarians, but really, I consider it meat if it was once alive and had flesh. That includes all animals. If there's a type of vegge for people who eat fish but not chicken or chicken but not fish etc... why isn't there a type for ones who eat, say, groundhogs, but no other type of meat? are groundhogs red or white meat? Does it matter for thedefinition? That's my issue with people still calling themselves vegetarians but do eat meat.

Do I really care? No. Do I take offense and want to tell them they are wrong? No. It's just my opinion, and why I won't eat any type of animal until I learn to hunt them for myself

Being a dready vegetarian :P

Dreads and Diets

Thanks Heaven. I would never have thought to look up the USDA's ruling on hormones in chickens.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/fact_sheets/chicken_from_farm_to_table/ind...

I'm with Eagle on this one. I make stir-fry almost every other day. I make huge portions that it can last me for 3 meals. Sometimes I through it on top of pasta, but more often than not, I use a brown rice.

1 package of seitan

1 or 2 bell peppers

10 or so Shitake mushrooms

half an onion, 1jalapeno

2 gloves garlic

a little ginger

1 can of chunk pineapple (I put it on almost everything)

1/2 to 1 jar of Korma or Curry depending on my mood or consistency preference.

I haven't gotten around to making my own curry paste because I can't get myself to break yogurt. It creeps me out that I'd have to heat it up. I know it'd be safe. I am just overly cautious about my food. I worked in a kitchen for years. I know what goes on back there.

I've got my own spiritual reasons for not eating meat. So I've found that this works for me.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, does eat meat, so I find myself spending a little extra time in the kitchen cooking because I have to cook for her and me. Most of the time she'll just use my stir fry and pick around the seitan and cut up her chicken and use that as herproteinin it