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Dread Maintenance

a hair dryer and paper towel only gets a lil oiut if wayt too much was used and only from the surface while melting it into the core

JavaLizard said:

Wow, I do think I said hair dryer and paper towels too, but I like to get stuck on one point and just ignore the rest, so I understand.

For me, pictures are added, poor dread got chopped, I used a blow dryer, paper towels and hot water... did not use dread or knotty, I was simply referring to the instructions on their website, but you know I said hot water so that's just gotta be my stance.
Rustdust said:

DreadheadHQ wax has two types of wax in it,

Beeswax is oily or greasy heat-sensitive substance, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are INSOLUBLE IN WATER.When cold it is brittle at ordinary temperatures it is tenacious; its fracture is dry and granular.

The other type of wax is Microcrystalline wax and is a type of wax produced by de-oiling petrolatum, as part of the petroleum refining process and again is INSOLUBLE IN WATER.

Beeswax has melting point range of 62 to 64 C (144 to 147 F) and then it becomes viscous or a low viscosity liquid.

Microcrystalline wax has a melt point of 140-175 F (60 - 80 oC) and then it becomes viscous a low viscosity liquid.

So if you think hot water removes WAX then think again ... or I will see ya in the burns unit at your local hospital.

JavaLizard said:

Your math is pretty bad, to wax a dread 24" long you would need 14g for the first waxing. Now they highly suggest not using more, but one could use less

Now lets talk wax, just pure wax. We make candles at home and I know one thing about it, if you want it gone, one must use heat, and lots of it. Dealing with theory, if one puts minimal wax in, heats it, blots it, heats again and uses very hot water, wax will come out. Now the bigger question is, " who would want to go through that much?"

But when talking dreads we are talking genetics, environments etc.. Your hair dreaded quickly, then there are guys on here with 1 year plus still with no dreads. What is fairness would be to meet up with these other guys and do some dread examination. By human factor, many people damage their hair, but is the human error the reason for methods being bad? Bleach and Ammonia make an excellent gopher chaser, so does pumping a hole full of propane...but human error can take these risky things and kill ya!

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dude your proving yourself an idiot

the lock docta looks interesting? jonny cleand videos are informative? he contradicts himself every other sentence

the lock docta can literaly turn a dread to powder its a felting needle that breaks every hair it touckhes into tiny peices then mashes them together into a felt

a felt can be pulled apasrt with fingers easily

on the lock docta page it says "poke with care too much poking can cause the dread to break, but dont worrt, poke too much and all you got to do is poke some more to reatach it

tratach? by a shredded weakened mangled joint where no hairs intact longer then 1/4 inch?

yea why do u believe the lies

the products were tested 'theres 5 thousand victims of the products here

only an idiot would expect better results

(and yes my math was corect why the tantrum?)

JavaLizard said:

SE here is a fair, WTF?!

First I never said I was pro wax, and to assume a person has 24" of backcombed hair, hell, they would be the world most patient and pain tolerant person. I simply said your math is off, you don't have to get all "mathematician" , I just don't get you, your brashness for just a phrase. Yep you are right my dreads will never harden I will have wax til I die they will... oh wait I can barely poke anything in mine, damn shame. So what I did is cut off part of my dread and here are the results. No wax, hardest little bugger to undo. Got the old crochet hook I was given, and went to town, my skin on my finger... it a broke, the hairs, didn't. Also is included is the end still attached to my head. Bottom line is I AM NOT PRO WAX, yeah the stuff is hard to get out, but don't just bash the wax, don't forget the person(s) putting it on.

And as for scalding your hair, never said to do that, just sharing what their instructions say. For me three days after I had wax in I got a hair dryer , paper towels , washed three times. It wasn't dreadhead, or knottyboy, I can't speak on those other than their instructions. And theoretically.

Why do I believe such lies? Sorry forgot you are the guru of product testing and development. Again realm of speaking not endorsing. Theirs is thinner, has a different tip and smaller hook, and they a got such a nice love-u-ly videeeooos. But seriously the product...dreaddocta(?), looks fairly interesting. And my toothbrush is freaking inventive as all get out! I got it a cool little Japanese drug store, it tells me where I missed, and transforms and cleans itself. But no really it is different, and sometimes slight variations make a huge difference, people can believe that in the theory of evolution.

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An approximate one-second exposure to 160 F water will result in third degree burns.1 Where the water is 130 F, an approximate half-minute exposure will result in third degree burns.2 This is the reason that the Consumer Product Safety Commission suggests that water heaters be set to a maximum temperature of 120 F, even though an approximate ten minute expsoure to water heated to this temperature can result in third degree burns

yea you need dangerously hot water to get wax =out

its really amazing they havemt been sued yet

A safe temperature for hot water is 110 F, which exposure to results in third degree burns in approximately ten hours.3 Even though this is a 'relatively-safe' temperature, exposure to water set at 110 F is painful; the human pain threshold is around 106-108 F.

Rustdust said:

DreadheadHQ wax has two types of wax in it,

Beeswax is oily or greasy heat-sensitive substance, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are INSOLUBLE IN WATER.When cold it is brittle at ordinary temperatures it is tenacious; its fracture is dry and granular.

The other type of wax is Microcrystalline wax and is a type of wax produced by de-oiling petrolatum, as part of the petroleum refining process and again is INSOLUBLE IN WATER.

Beeswax has melting point range of 62 to 64 C (144 to 147 F) and then it becomes viscous or a low viscosity liquid.

Microcrystalline wax has a melt point of 140-175 F (60 - 80 oC) and then it becomes viscous a low viscosity liquid.

So if you think hot water removes WAX then think again ... or I will see ya in the burns unit at your local hospital.

JavaLizard said:

Your math is pretty bad, to wax a dread 24" long you would need 14g for the first waxing. Now they highly suggest not using more, but one could use less

Now lets talk wax, just pure wax. We make candles at home and I know one thing about it, if you want it gone, one must use heat, and lots of it. Dealing with theory, if one puts minimal wax in, heats it, blots it, heats again and uses very hot water, wax will come out. Now the bigger question is, " who would want to go through that much?"

But when talking dreads we are talking genetics, environments etc.. Your hair dreaded quickly, then there are guys on here with 1 year plus still with no dreads. What is fairness would be to meet up with these other guys and do some dread examination. By human factor, many people damage their hair, but is the human error the reason for methods being bad? Bleach and Ammonia make an excellent gopher chaser, so does pumping a hole full of propane...but human error can take these risky things and kill ya!

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oh and your maths actualy off your saying 14 g for 1 dread

so times 40 dreads ..thats 500 g 560 actually 450 is a pound

theres 4 oz per jar

16 oz per pound

like i said 4 jars per single applicatuon

now jony claimed my math was wrong becaus a 1 inch dread has a 4 inch base (lies) and would mean only 8 dreads per head

see how you have to use weird math to make sence of jonnys overwaxing thoeries?

JavaLizard said:

Your math is pretty bad, to wax a dread 24" long you would need 14g for the first waxing. Now they highly suggest not using more, but one could use less

Now lets talk wax, just pure wax. We make candles at home and I know one thing about it, if you want it gone, one must use heat, and lots of it. Dealing with theory, if one puts minimal wax in, heats it, blots it, heats again and uses very hot water, wax will come out. Now the bigger question is, " who would want to go through that much?"

But when talking dreads we are talking genetics, environments etc.. Your hair dreaded quickly, then there are guys on here with 1 year plus still with no dreads. What is fairness would be to meet up with these other guys and do some dread examination. By human factor, many people damage their hair, but is the human error the reason for methods being bad? Bleach and Ammonia make an excellent gopher chaser, so does pumping a hole full of propane...but human error can take these risky things and kill ya!

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dreadheads needle does less harm...on the way out but just as much on the way in..

a needle ..sewing needle with no hook at all will break hairs when pushed through a dread (maybe a 1 day old backcombed dread might..and im saying just theoreticly not guaranteed..have enough space to alow it to pass through without breaking too many hairs

instead of believing clown logic go back to school rake some science coarses use real logic

maybe ill ask a mathematician friend to calculate how many hairs will actualy be broken

and the thing is after the 1st use they are absolutely waty too tight to alow a even remotely safe 2nd yse

im thinking the wax in your dreads is seeping into your brain and affecting your ability to think clearly

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yes it breaks hairs hairs not stronger then steel dreadheahq's needles no better then any other why do you believe such lies?

JavaLizard said:

SE the crochet needle has come a very long ways, you assume that hairs break each and every time. And for a needle to break hair every time it enters...really? Then people combing their hair or teasing it should break hair by the same logic. Our hair is quite strong. And depending on who does them and how yes lots of damage can be done. Dreadheadhq has a really nifty needle. It also is why are you doing it. Are you just grabbing a few hairs to pull in, once, or are you constantly grooming trying to get perfect locks every week.

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i was not doing the math ifyou want the actual math its in the jonny clean debate thread and its a hell of alot of wax

and whats your point?

people who used wax arent technicaly dreaded 10 years later

it prevents any new knotting after day 1 once its added..progress stops iy just hardens to trick you into thinking it helps

if you want proof look at the close ups of jonnet cleans 6 year old dreads in the same thread

they are looking like 1 day old backcombed hair just more compressed in wax

for that matter hows he got room to pull 1 dread entirely inside another dread?

they arent dreaded at all

look at your own dreads..they are still.. they have wax in them and wont dread properly till its removed

your only preventing not helping progress by believing the lies

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dreadhead recomends so little? really? by using thier math 24 inches of hair woyld need 4 jars 1st application and 2 more jars a week after that

thier removal instructions dont remove it at all

and they dont recomend a stop time they recomend a use less time but continued use forever

people have used 1/4 what they recomend...only one or 2 times and went through hell to remove it

JavaLizard said:

If you don't want crazy strays and you want to "tame" a little dreadballing is a possibility depending on your hair type, I know people who do it, I do something similar, not for maintenance but rather out of boredom, just playing with my hair find a few crazies and I just start rolling them up tight to the lock and they get sucked in eventually.

As far s dandruff I take a more personal approach. Just like poeple are like don't put anything on your dreads EVER, well stuff masks dandruff. Basically if you want to get rid of it, eat clean, drink water, take out breads and the like. You can rinse all you want but that will really only mask whats going on.

As far as rubberbands, SE has his view, I've never met anyone with braids, cornrows, etc who have had any of those problems. Back when I was 14 I did the whole Kris Kross look, rubber bands for weeks not a problem.

As far as wax, I'm not pro but I am instructional. DreadloackHQ instructs so little wax per length along with recommendations to remove, and give a recommended stop time as well, so they all have their take from hair style to spiritual to etc. But we are all different and have different tastes and expectations. There have been people whose hair didn't dread and got dreadrot going natural and with wax, so that argument can go on and on.

But there are some hair stylists who don't approve the shampoo suggested here because of the residue left behind after washing their kids hair with it. Lots of points of view.

One I'm still in the dark on, are the statistics of weakness of dreads from crocheting. Yes it is a thin piece of metal going in the dread, but if one crochets , then the dread is lightly rubbed and moved, the hair then, technically moves back and said hole is gone. But I digress:)

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but dandruff yea is often misdiagnosed theres auto imune things theres dry flakey scalp psoriasis dermatitis etc etc dozens of things get called dandruff that arent

rom a nutrition perspective flax seed oil (for us veggies) or fish oil (gagging evin thinking about how they extract oil from fishes) ..(actualy forget i mentioned that just go with flax) add a spoonful to your food or take in capsuls (i like it over rice but for awhile aded it to absolutely everything i ate)

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holes gone but broken hairs are nit and crochet makes it so incredibly tight theres no room to not tear up the hairs

in fact mines tight enough u cant firt a hair between any 2 hairs let alone something 10-50 times thickert yhen a hair (or more the tiniest hooks there are are many many times thicker then the space available ..between 2 hairs at the surface but jumble the hairs all up into a tight mass and for all practical purposes its a solid

theres no way possuible a hook can pass through without breaking at least 1/2 the hairs it passes by (or through)