middle-aged newbie dreadhead
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thought i'd add a couple of things that i've been doing that seem to be helping me.
i used to shake my hair out after a wash but since my hair is super soft it was actually undoing progress especially in the first 4-5 months. now i just squeeze out what water i can and then wrap it in a hair towel (kind of like a shamwow but made for hair).
i no longer wash my hair in the shower now. i was feeling like i couldn't really get to my scalp with it hanging down my back so on wash days i just go use my kids bathtub and shower sprayer and hang my head upside down over the bath tub and wash it that way. i'm able to scrub my scalp easier and i find that i can rinse it much better than when it was clinging to my back in the shower. i also wash it in the morning instead of evening which gives it the entire day to dry which it probably doesn't need because my hair is thin but i don't want to take any chances with getting mold.
sometimes on the in between days i use salt water to dry it a bit and make it more prone to knotting. i was just mixing it up in a spray bottle and spraying it on but i would end up with salt residue on my walls and bathroom counter from the over spray. yuck. since finding out that the ocean is 3.5% salt i was able to do a more accurate mixture and now i just make a jug of it. i wet my hair first and then just pour it over my hair while standing with my head over the bathtub again. i squeeze out the excess and then sit outside in the sun and read a book while it dries. its really helping to give my soft hair more grip which i hope will increase the knotting in the near future. the salt doesn't irritate my scalp at all.
i know i'm not that far into my journey and i'm still learning myself but i thought some of you guys might find some of my methods helpful to you, too
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updated by @heather: 07/11/15 09:30:53AM