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Heather
@heather
07/06/11 10:01:22PM
1,291 posts

Washing dread tams


Dread Products

if its wool than you will definitely need to hand wash using cold water only and very gently. lay it flat to dry. never dry wool anything in a dryer unless you want it to fit a toddler afterwards. if its acrylic than you can machine wash and dry. acrylic is pretty durable.
Heather
@heather
07/06/11 10:15:56PM
1,291 posts

sleeping in a tam / frizzies / big hair


Dread Accessories

poor girl with all that thick, beautiful hair:) i wish i had your problem. lol:) i wouldn't put your tam on wet hair but if you want to sea spray it, let it dry and then put the tam on you should be fine. i would hate to see mold growing in that beautiful hair:)
Heather
@heather
07/03/11 03:49:19PM
1,291 posts

Feel Like Giving Up...Please HELP!


Help! Save My Dreads

its definitely the dr. bronners. you most likely have hard water and castile soaps won't rinse out and will leave you with a sticky residue no matter how much you dilute it. definitely get aclarifying shampoo. suave, neutrogena,prell. any of those will do. my personal favorite is desert essence lemon tea tree shampoo for oily hair. its a natural shampoo that's easy to find in most health food stores.
Heather
@heather
07/08/11 01:23:51AM
1,291 posts

Painful scalp


Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

yours sound exactly like what mine are doing. they're rotating 360 degrees as they knot closer to my scalp and one side is always tighter which causes a lot of pulling and pain. i'm hoping they'll work themselves out soon.

taye said:

I have had that same issue on the top of my head. on one of my dreads the root knotted up weird for a little while. It tightened up on one side before the other. Which caused the weight of the dread to pull on the knotted part and not be distributed equally. It became pretty sore. I kept my hair pulled up for a few days to keep any weight off of it. I slept with it flipped over on the other side. It quickly fixed itself.

I have a couple of dreads on top that twist around 360 degrees as the roots lock up. I do not twist them, they do it on their own. I had tried keeping them untwisted when this happened. So now i just let them twist all they want. It has never happened since.

It could also be a little pimple on your scalp. Those can be painful. If this is the case, put a little tea tree on the sore part.

Heather
@heather
06/30/11 01:05:30PM
1,291 posts

Thinking of dreading, yet unsure.


Introduce Yourself

i have soft, fine hair too. it took a lot of time for my hair to start to knot naturally. i'm happy with how its finally doing it but knowing what i know now with how my hair hates to knot i probably would've t&r my hair after it naturally sectioned itself a couple months in. t&r is the least damaging of the starter methods and probably the easiest to remove if you have second thoughts. you put it in using your hands and you can undo it using your hands too. no comb or harsh tools required. maybe do a couple and see how you like it. if it's not for you then just unravel them and move on:)
Heather
@heather
06/29/11 03:02:24AM
1,291 posts

Nooo! Dreads Causing a break out!


Introduce Yourself

tell your friend to get a bottle of witch hazel and add 30 - 40 drops of tea tree oil to it. shake and apply using a cotton ball. my son uses it twice a day after a gentle cleaning and his face completely cleared up. i use it sometimes too. its refreshing when your feeling sweaty and yucky. make sure to shake it before use each time.

Steph said:
I told a friend about tea tree oil yesterday. Apparently the company that makes her acne medication stopped production for awhile due to a recall and she's struggling. Later, when someone else at my house got scratched by my cat, I offered them a bandaid and everyone said, "what, you don't have some magic herb to put on it?!?!" LOL
Heather
@heather
06/29/11 01:42:08AM
1,291 posts

Nooo! Dreads Causing a break out!


Introduce Yourself

you can wash your face with baking soda and water. pour some baking soda in your hand and add water until you have a paste. if you have any tea tree oil, add a couple drops of that too. wet your face and then wash your face with the bs paste. don't scrub too hard though of you could irritate your skin and cause more breakouts. rinse really well.

don't do it too often or you'll dry out your skin. try to keep your hair off of your face during the day using a headband or sleeve from a tshirt. sweat and oils from your hair can cause breakouts.

Heather
@heather
06/30/11 03:52:53AM
1,291 posts

what. the. hell.


General Talk

lol! that would be awesome!

Jesus Freed My Soul!! said:
We all need to post a warning on youtube. Hey, do you think I could put in a bigger hook and use it to make a super fast tam? lol
Heather
@heather
06/28/11 02:55:24PM
1,291 posts

what. the. hell.


General Talk

i would think you would end up with a thousand stabs into your hand from using this tool. so crazy.
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