Forum Activity for @heather

Is there a such thing as the "wrong" Dr. Bronners soap??

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

one of the girls on the board adds a little dr. bronners to her baking soda mix. you might try that. i can't use bronners either because of hard water. leaves my hair feeling like slime. yuck.

dreads in hats and other things

Dread Accessories

for me a hat doesn't seem to do anything but that could just be my hair type. i still wear it off and on though. glad it's working for you.

Beads

Introduce Yourself

go to etsy.com and search for dreadlocks beads. thats where i bought some recently. great prices, too.

Loose hair!

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

unfortunately it sounds pretty normal to me. use beads to hold sections together with the loose hair. they'll tighten back up as they mature.

So I've Been Thinking

Dread Maintenance

i've heard using distilled water would work but i'm too cheap to buy a bunch of bottle water just so i can use dr. bronners. i like the organic shampoo i'm using and it rinses just fine with our hard water.

Help!

Dreading Methods

you could always sew the loose hairs into the dread using a large tapestry needle.

Rachel Guthrie said:

I agree, ^. Mine haven't yet gotten to the 'come undone' stage.

But I will confess, I guiltily crocheted a few loose hairs in, but only because I did them myself and missed a bunch of long hairs :P
Other than that, no maintenance here.

Help!

Dreading Methods

the best is whichever method you feel comfortable with. just stay away from wax.

beads. loops. bumps. applications of the like.

Dread Accessories

i'm curious about this too. i have 5 sections that dreaded from the bottom up and sucked in the ends and created a big zig zaging section on the ends. i'm really hoping in the coming month it will fix itself but if not then i'd like to find a way to round them out so i don't have these flat paddle looking dreads right in the front. they're kind of pulling in a weird way too.

Natural and T&R started 12th Jan 2011

Introduce Yourself

pretty! i like how your hair curls at the bottom of the t&r. cool:)

Lightening hair with lemon juice?

General Questions

if i'm not mistaken, its not the heat that causes the lemon juice to lighten your hair but the uv rays. i know the product sun-in works with a hair dryer because it has a mild peroxide in it.