What are you washing with?
Peppermint oil is great for relieving itchies. I have a little spray bottle with jojoba, Peppermint, and Either rosemary or teatree oils and water, in it for days I feel itchy. It works like a charm.
But changing up how and what you wash with may help too
I think so. If you really want to post, you will have to pay for it.
Would this cause all of the other shops that sell beads, and tams, and such, to have to pay as well?
No. When the are drying, you want them to be as loose as possible. That way all sides of them get air. When they are banded together in a ponytail or something, only 1 side gets air. They don't dry as fast, then, and can have the problem of growing mold. Just washing them and them loosening up a bit will help them round themselves out too
Every once in a while, take off your helmet, shake your head and shake up your locks. Then put your helmet back on. This should change the position of a few locks and help them round out. But Eagles right. They round out in time, but a few flat spots aren't anything to worry about. I made a video about not worrying about flat locks. I have a few
Ipreferredliquid soap when mine were babies, but you could use a bar. That site sell the same scents in liquid and bar form, though
You should just about never wash your hair itself with locks. There are specialcircumstances where you would have to, but during your normal wash, you don't wash your hair. You wash your scalp.
Just take the bar and scrub your scalp with it, in between each lock and around your hairline. It's awesome. Better than any massage you'd do with your fingers. Then you rinse it out, and it runs through your hair cleaning it
Even if you aren't into preaching, which most people aren't, it can come off like you are when you start saying that "locks are how everyone's hair naturally wants to be", or "Ifyou stop brushingyou'rehair, it will form locks". People don't want you to talk about them specifically. Keep it vague. Just talk about healthy locks. That you do wash them, how and how often. Maybe, MAYBE, bring up how long it takes, but that it is worth it. If they ask if you can speed it up, or why you don't speed it up, then explain how damaging products and maintenance are
Lots of people think that locks should look pristine and identical. That's not that case. Especially for natural ones. In fact, healthy locks need to have different shapes and sizes. There's no maintenance that they need other than washing and separating.
I ran into a similar situation a few weeks back. A girl I used to work with does hair styling on the side. She made a comment to me about how locks need no maintenance most of the time, but when they do, they need a lot. She though that once or twice a year locks needed to be cleaned up and have the roots tightened. I explained to her than any maintenance is damaging and that she shouldn't tell her clients that they needed to come back for "touch-ups". I hope it sank in. It seemed to. I think I'm one of the few people she knows with dreadlocks, let alone healthy ones. So I feel like it made a difference coming from me.
When you get into these situations, just be calm, and basic. Don't get preachy and don't go into any more detail than is absolutely necessary unless they ask more questions
The BS solution is meant to exfoliate your skin. if it's not strong enough it will start the process, but not finish it. Make the adjustments that Eagle mentioned and you should be fine.
Locks will always come undone a bit, or completely, when they are babies. It's not until you are afew months in that you see them stop untangling when you wash them
