Bug's Dreadline (aka plee for moral support) UPDATE 7/10/13: 1 YEAR PIC & VID - pic in first post.
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Thanks! The pic was on my four month mark, the 9th of every month. so now I'm over 4 and a half. Some of the dreads are starting to actually dread up above the crazy whirls. My niece and i went i named about 5 of them lol. i still have a lot of loos silky hair yet and the new job is gonna slow down my progress i think.
Also i was still get that dirty unwashed smell at my roots and scalp only a day or two in. I think a lot of it is we use a wood furnace and dad likes to load it up before bed so the house is hot at night and i probably end up sweating a bit in my sleep (i also have two wiener dogs that sleep on the bed with me and they are definitely furry four-legged furnaces!!)
I have came up with a solution, it's not ideal but it seems to work. I only wash my hair once a week with this natural soap i bought locally. it has Shea butter in which i know isn't great but for once a week it doesn't seem to harm anything and it has a great pine smell to it i love. on the rest of the days i have mixed up my essential oils (tea tree, rosemary, citronella) in with my sea salt spray. i wet down my hair int he shower, spray that on, put ti up in a clip, finishing shower, then rise it out give my scalp and good scratching with my nails to get rid of the white gunk build up i get. i know the hard water is probably alto fo my problem.
the BS doesn't seem to work, just left my hair feeling like it had a film on it, and would actually harden right out of the shower. the straight sea salt/rise daily and soap once a week seems to be working to keep my hair clean and soft, with little to no build up or smell. And i have a tiny bottle of just water and oils I'll mist over my hair in in the morning to freshen it up. I'm sure it's slowing down the loose hairs from locking up, but the daily salt baths hasn't undone anything so i'll just figure on more of a year and half timeline versus a year. so far so good. *fingers crossed*
~Bug