Dry little dreadies
Dread Maintenance
i looked up her website. all those soaps sound wonderful. a little pricey so i'll have to wait a bit but i'm definitely going to order one or two soon. thanks:)
well, if your coming out to cali then your definitely going to need something to wash with because the water here will leave more build up in your hair than any shampoo would. i think the whole build up thing is a little over hyped anyway. maybe a natural shampoo bar or even a dr.bronners bar? at least they're easy to travel with.
Dorothy said:i wash my hair 1-3 times a week, just water in the shower. the occasional acv/baking soda rinse. but lately ive been trying to soak my dreads once a week with essential oils and vinegar and plain old hot water to really get em clean. they re so thick that i gotta soak and squeeze and repeat process to get inside em. but i only got a month to get them the healthiest i can before i travel. otherwise, id prally be doin a soak 1 every mo. i like bronners but am super paranoid about soap buildup.
Heather said
what do you wash with and how often?s
Dorothy said:its going to take a lot of neglect for that to happen. and it wont. dont worry, be happy!!!
i wash my hair 1-3 times a week, just water in the shower. the occasional acv/baking soda rinse. but lately ive been trying to soak my dreads once a week with essential oils and vinegar and plain old hot water to really get em clean. they re so thick that i gotta soak and squeeze and repeat process to get inside em. but i only got a month to get them the healthiest i can before i travel. otherwise, id prally be doin a soak 1 every mo. i like bronners but am super paranoid about soap buildup.
Heather said
what do you wash with and how often?s
Dorothy said:its going to take a lot of neglect for that to happen. and it wont. dont worry, be happy!!!
its going to take a lot of neglect for that to happen. and it wont. dont worry, be happy!!!
your hair is very beautiful. looks curly too. your curls and waves will work wonders if you let em. no more backcombing!! ive got tons of loose baby hairs and curls that will probably never dread. dont worry so much about them.
Heather said:okay. i'll try that. thanks dorothy!
Dorothy said:no mirror! thats one of the reasons i started dreading. i hated spending precious moments of my life looking into one so that i may be 'presentable'. yup, do it all by feel lady. if you stop fussin with your hair and let it rat up and do its thing, youll start to feel locs forming in their own sections. when you got those going, you just help the hair-made sections along by separating them from other sections. if you cant feel a loc (formed or forming), dont separate.
no mirror! thats one of the reasons i started dreading. i hated spending precious moments of my life looking into one so that i may be 'presentable'. yup, do it all by feel lady. if you stop fussin with your hair and let it rat up and do its thing, youll start to feel locs forming in their own sections. when you got those going, you just help the hair-made sections along by separating them from other sections. if you cant feel a loc (formed or forming), dont separate.
are you separating in front of a mirror? if so, i suggest stopping.
every time i separated, it was unconscious. id find my hands moving over the newly formed locs that were pulling on each other and my scalp. and this didnt happen often, even in the beginning. but i dont got a zillion dreads either...
your hair and body will tell you when and where to separate. trust your gut.
I do my best to only separate after a shower, when my hair has had a chance to dry a teeny bit. The hair is weaker when it's wet, so it makes it easier to separate (gently, of course!). I've also still got a lot of loose hair from separating. I've been taking some of it and doing a little t&r to keep things in order.
I'm a month and three weeks in, though. You're a lot farther along than me! :P