Forum Activity for @island-mamma

Hello all

Introduce Yourself

Hi Vixie, welcome to the site and to dreadiness.SE I so get you. I love my hair, aside from that one weekend where I tripped out and brushed the top of my head HA! Other than that its been great, slow and I am glad for the slowness, I love how wild my hair looks.

Oh Jonny Boy, might I ask for something?

Dread Products

mmm gotta love crude oil products on your body...

Help! I do not think my hair is dreading

Dreading Methods

How long has it been?I agree tight twists might inhibit dreading same with gels and products.

scabs on my head.

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

I wash in the shower, so two cups of water with baking soda, over my already wet hair is plenty, you really should try something different if its leaving scabs. Mama Harrison said:

thanks for the response--that wouldn't even get 1/4 of my hair damp though. the scabs have gone away now--so--i will try something different next wash Island Mamma said:

Hmmm seems like a lot to me. Of water and BS. I use two table spoons of BS in 2 cups of water. I have a ton of hair too. Its to my waist and hella thick and curly. Maybe try using my ratio???

Mama Harrison said:

1 cup in a 2 gallon vinegar jug with EO--I have a TON of hair--I wash 1x a week--sometimes 2x a week if I have been outside or swimming a lot.

Island Mamma said:

How much do you use, how do you use it and how often?

scabs on my head.

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

Hmmm seems like a lot to me. Of water and BS. I use two table spoons of BS in 2 cups of water. I have a ton of hair too. Its to my waist and hella thick and curly. Maybe try using my ratio??? Mama Harrison said:

1 cup in a 2 gallon vinegar jug with EO--I have a TON of hair--I wash 1x a week--sometimes 2x a week if I have been outside or swimming a lot.

Island Mamma said:

How much do you use, how do you use it and how often?

scabs on my head.

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

How much do you use, how do you use it and how often?

peppermint sea salt spray

Dread Maintenance

I add 6-10 drops of Peppermint oil to 2 table spoons of baking soda in about 2 cups of water and pour it over my scalp and hair in the shower and let it soak in while I wash. I have gotten it in my eyes a few times you have to be careful but you learn to avoid that eventually Works like a charm for me, I have a healthy scalp now. I had dandruff and scalp issues before dreading even and it works better than head and shoulders ever did. Joe muir said:

i do have dry scalp ever since I got dreads. I have dandruff and itchies and was hopeing it would help as well as smell good. I also have tea tree.

peppermint sea salt spray

Dread Maintenance

Peppermint is a remedy or medicine as SE mentioned, used for dandruff and scalp issues as well as a powerful decongestant, great as a rub on sore muscles and awesome to take internally in tea form for digestive issues, much like rosemary just WAY stronger.If you use it as a scent use very little like 2 drops with 10 drops orange oil in a glass fine mist spray bottle. Spray on a light mist on your hair not scalp. (Orange can burn your skin in the sun thats why on hair only)Peppermint is an age old favorite for foods too, look at candy canes and after dinner mint and chocolate mint, people love it

Scalp smelling unclean

Dread Maintenance

Humans have a real aversion to anything human these days, thank giant corps who pay billions of dollars to brainwash society to buy there chemical products!You likely smell normal, its just that society doesn't know what hat normal is.My scalp smells different now that I am chem free but not bad.

2 weeks + 2 days, all natural

Dreading Methods

Hey you're a dready! Imagine that :DPSI love the light around you in the first pic