What do you wash with?
Dread Maintenance
Hi Sting Rey, thanks alot for the advice. Actually, my dread was not so thick, it took 3 hours to get dry in Nigeria but in Germany it took only 30 mins cos it's so dry there but humid in Nigeria. Now, i have made it thicker by twisting 2 together and hold them with a hair clip just some weeks ago (I have tried this before, i think late last 2 years or early last year and it worked, it took a month for 2 strands to stick together at the roots), because it was breaking as a result of the hard water and dry climate, too harsh to the hair. So, from your advice, 4 times a week in a humid environment will not work lol. I will reduce it to 4 times a month in Africa but once a month in Germany.
Thank you.
Sting.Rey said:
Be very careful in drying your hair if your going to be washing that frequently. The thicker the dread the longer it will take to dry out all the hair strands within it, especially those in the center. The danger is that if you don't dry the centers out completely before the next wash you'll be setting up the perfect conditions for mildew to set in. Once that fungal infection sets in it is very hard to treat. This is the problem that some people have with dreads and leads to that awfully strong "wet dog" smell. This has given rise to some very unfavorable opinions that dreads are dirty, even to the completely false idea in the general population that dreadheads use dog feces in thier hair. Ridiculous I know, but I've heard it.