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Hey everyone! I'm a total noob to the dread world!

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i started with hair as 2-3 inches... It took me a long time to see the first knot [the first real knot i saw at the end of the sixth month, now i'm at 9.5 months], but after the first knot lots of them started popping on my head, and all of the hair on the back of my head are dreaded [shrinking like crazy, now i have some dreads that are 1 inch]... Only now some sections of the side of my hair started dreading [but most of them doesn't have any knots]...

You can start now. Maybe it will take a long time to dread, but i can assure you that in the end you will love it! Stop playing with your hair, it slows your progress, and your hands have natural oils... if you mess too much with your hair, the oils will get on your hair and this isn't good.

buy the locking up liquid shampoo from www.dreadlockshampoo.com it makes your hair and scalp a bit dry [not so much, it don't give you itches] and it really help your hair to dread.

Separate when needed [by my experience, i can tell you that starting with short hair you will have to be more aware about your sections, and shorter the hair, easier for them sticking at each other by the tips]

just be patient, gentle and love your hair and embrace your journey.

Hope my english make sense [ i'm learning by myself]

Managing Curly Dreads

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the curls add character to dreads...

i would love if my dreads stay curly forever.

All of my formed dreads are so curly that now you can't notice them looking at my hair, but i love all of them

Anyone who never separated?

Dread Maintenance

i tried that... and i got fat sections that were driving me crazy... i had to rip a lot of dreads, and i broke lots of hair too, after 5 months without separating.

And i just had undone lots of progress because i didn't separated before... now i'm separating EVERYDAY [as my hair tangles fast] but things are going good... I plant to combine dreads in the near future after they are all formed [but now i prefer THIN dreads]

updated by @diego-f: 07/26/15 12:26:37PM

A Good Baking Soda/ ACV Recipe?

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i think that you should discover for yourself. None of the recipes here worked for me.

To clean my head i have to use an great quantity of baking soda. 80 grams of baking soda to 1 liter of water.

Less than this will leave dandruff and dead skin on my hair.

Natural progress

Member Journals and Timelines

looks a bit like my hair [but your hair is far more longer than mine]... i'll follow your journey!

Doing good!

Is it okay to use vegan shampoo?

General Questions

I have to use BIG QUANTITIES of baking soda, and i have hard water... Well i use 80g of baking soda in every wash [if i use less the dandruff will still be on my hair]... yeah i have to buy everytime to wash... but i can look into other options... In dollars the price i pay of an 80 gram packet is something like $2,00...

but if i buy an 25 KILOGRAMS of baking soda it will be cheap, something like $13 and it will last forever... maybe i'll buy it!

Thanks SE, i'll try buying the giant pack of bs!
soaring eagle said:

looks way too conditioning to me

how can you not aford baking sosa thats the cheapest thingthee is t wash with plesase dont tell me you buy a tiny box everytime u wash get a big box rthe bo=igger the better dont you know when u vuy small 1/2 the price is packaging costs? if you buy say a pound at a time its 1/2 proce per oz 5 pounds 1/10th (not accurate just making a point) u can buy it in bulk and its incrediv=bly cheap that way

Is it okay to use vegan shampoo?

General Questions

Well i can't afford to buy BS every time i wash my hair, nor can i afford to pay more than 10 times the price of the dreadlockshampoo.com bars [yeah, if i try to import them to my country the final price will be something like $80 dollars, on our local currency, R$160 for just one bar]

I recently found a brand of vegan poo here, that says that they are completely natural, free of SLS, RESIDUE FREE [yeah, residue free and not anti-residue] and i want to know if the ingredients are ok, and if i should dilute the poo in water in a container, like i do with bs/acv?

Jojoba 100% Vegetal Shampoo ingredients:

jojoba oil, Sweet Almond Oil, organic palm kernel oil, rice oil, ylan ylan oil

Jaborandi and Olive 100% Vegetal Shampoo ingredients:
Pilocarpus microphyllus oil, organic palm kernel oil, olive, castor beans, Natural Glycolic Extract of Jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus), salvia essential oil, rosemary essential oil, cedar essential oil

It is okay to buy them? The site say they are free of SLS, and aromatizants, and conservants, they are 100% natural.

Thank you!

updated by @diego-f: 01/13/15 09:43:07PM

Natural Dreadlock Progression From 5-6 Inches Of Hair - A Dready Timeline - By Castaway Jesus

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oh man they are looking longer and amazing!

Natural Dreadlock Progression From 5-6 Inches Of Hair - A Dready Timeline - By Castaway Jesus

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Really amazing!

Preventing my scalp issue

Dread Maintenance

i had this for 6 months... i think it's called psoriasis... ti was worse on my hairline...

it was annoying, but i got rid of that this month, on the sixth month, after 3 washes with spike lavender, and rosemary essential oil