Welcome to the community Jessica. You certainly came to the right place to learn all about growing and keeping dreadlocks healthy and happy. The dreaducation section at the top of the site is a great place to start. You will learn tips and methods. All you need to begin is stop brushing. Neglect / Free Form is the best choice, then the twist and rip method, However you begin, let your hair separate into natural sections first, this takes a couple of weeks to happen from not brushing and washing them with dread shampoo or the baking soda wash & apple cider vinegar rinse. Use the search bar near the top left to key in words to search on a certain topic. Have any questions after, feel free to ask us, we are all here to help, all of us. Here is a map of your water type, soft water allows you to use many dread shampoos and bars on the market, with hard water, there is a very limited choice, as many leave behind a residue when used with hard water. Enjoy your new beginnings when you start...peace
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07/16/13 11:34:08PM @jessica-wilson2:
Hi and thank you. Im in Houston so we have moderately hard water i guess? Please excuse any errors, Im learning to use this app. I wash with Burts Bees grapfruit shampoo, is that ok? Also, i bleach my roots. Any tips for that? Im here to learn! Some of my 34 locks have begun to loosen. Help? And thank you for the welcomes! More to come as I learn app.
Welcome. If you're only palm rolling sporadically, don't bother. It doesn't actually help create lasting knots. it's just something for your hands to do. Take up a craft instead. Or play music (my favorite past time). if you palm roll enough to see progress, it's too much, and severely destroys your locks. The risk isn't worth it.
So what are you washing with? Like Barrellady said, with locks, you need to be more careful about what you wash with. Hard water is the bane of most locks, because many people love Dr. Bronners. but it's a castile soap, and castile soaps don't work well in hard water
Welcome to the community and to the best site on the web for dreadlocks and all the right information you will ever need to know. No need to do any palm rolling, it really only temporarily does something and does cause future damage to dreads. All you really need to do is keep them clean and separate the sections when they try to join onto each other. Out of curiosity, what is the good smelly stuff you use on yours?
Here is a map of the states, if you have soft water, you can use any type of dread shampoo or bar, but with hard water, many of those do not work properly and slowly leave behind a residue build up. If you need a fantastic product that works in hard water, all water types in fact, go to www.dreadlockshampoo.com
vickies stuff is amazing to use, smells fantastic and all natural....enjoy the rest of your journey, and share a pic of your dreads too....peace
welcome the elastics were a bad idea and dont bother palm rolling it does nothing but can cause permnenant harm
theres absolutely no reason to ever palm roll
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07/16/13 11:34:08PM @jessica-wilson2:
Hi and thank you. Im in Houston so we have moderately hard water i guess? Please excuse any errors, Im learning to use this app. I wash with Burts Bees grapfruit shampoo, is that ok? Also, i bleach my roots. Any tips for that? Im here to learn! Some of my 34 locks have begun to loosen. Help? And thank you for the welcomes! More to come as I learn app.
Welcome. If you're only palm rolling sporadically, don't bother. It doesn't actually help create lasting knots. it's just something for your hands to do. Take up a craft instead. Or play music (my favorite past time). if you palm roll enough to see progress, it's too much, and severely destroys your locks. The risk isn't worth it.
So what are you washing with? Like Barrellady said, with locks, you need to be more careful about what you wash with. Hard water is the bane of most locks, because many people love Dr. Bronners. but it's a castile soap, and castile soaps don't work well in hard water
Welcome to the community and to the best site on the web for dreadlocks and all the right information you will ever need to know. No need to do any palm rolling, it really only temporarily does something and does cause future damage to dreads. All you really need to do is keep them clean and separate the sections when they try to join onto each other. Out of curiosity, what is the good smelly stuff you use on yours?
Here is a map of the states, if you have soft water, you can use any type of dread shampoo or bar, but with hard water, many of those do not work properly and slowly leave behind a residue build up. If you need a fantastic product that works in hard water, all water types in fact, go to www.dreadlockshampoo.com
vickies stuff is amazing to use, smells fantastic and all natural....enjoy the rest of your journey, and share a pic of your dreads too....peace
Welcome. When you're done reading the dreaducation page, check out the timeline forums to see what the first few weeks/months will look like.
How are you starting?
welcome how are u starting./
Welcome to the community Jessica. You certainly came to the right place to learn all about growing and keeping dreadlocks healthy and happy. The dreaducation section at the top of the site is a great place to start. You will learn tips and methods. All you need to begin is stop brushing. Neglect / Free Form is the best choice, then the twist and rip method, However you begin, let your hair separate into natural sections first, this takes a couple of weeks to happen from not brushing and washing them with dread shampoo or the baking soda wash & apple cider vinegar rinse. Use the search bar near the top left to key in words to search on a certain topic. Have any questions after, feel free to ask us, we are all here to help, all of us. Here is a map of your water type, soft water allows you to use many dread shampoos and bars on the market, with hard water, there is a very limited choice, as many leave behind a residue when used with hard water. Enjoy your new beginnings when you start...peace
Hi and thank you. Im in Houston so we have moderately hard water i guess? Please excuse any errors, Im learning to use this app. I wash with Burts Bees grapfruit shampoo, is that ok? Also, i bleach my roots. Any tips for that? Im here to learn! Some of my 34 locks have begun to loosen. Help? And thank you for the welcomes! More to come as I learn app.
Welcome. If you're only palm rolling sporadically, don't bother. It doesn't actually help create lasting knots. it's just something for your hands to do. Take up a craft instead. Or play music (my favorite past time). if you palm roll enough to see progress, it's too much, and severely destroys your locks. The risk isn't worth it.
So what are you washing with? Like Barrellady said, with locks, you need to be more careful about what you wash with. Hard water is the bane of most locks, because many people love Dr. Bronners. but it's a castile soap, and castile soaps don't work well in hard water
Welcome to the community and to the best site on the web for dreadlocks and all the right information you will ever need to know. No need to do any palm rolling, it really only temporarily does something and does cause future damage to dreads. All you really need to do is keep them clean and separate the sections when they try to join onto each other. Out of curiosity, what is the good smelly stuff you use on yours?
Here is a map of the states, if you have soft water, you can use any type of dread shampoo or bar, but with hard water, many of those do not work properly and slowly leave behind a residue build up. If you need a fantastic product that works in hard water, all water types in fact, go to www.dreadlockshampoo.com
vickies stuff is amazing to use, smells fantastic and all natural....enjoy the rest of your journey, and share a pic of your dreads too....peace
welcome the elastics were a bad idea and dont bother palm rolling it does nothing but can cause permnenant harm
theres absolutely no reason to ever palm roll
Hi and thank you. Im in Houston so we have moderately hard water i guess? Please excuse any errors, Im learning to use this app. I wash with Burts Bees grapfruit shampoo, is that ok? Also, i bleach my roots. Any tips for that? Im here to learn! Some of my 34 locks have begun to loosen. Help? And thank you for the welcomes! More to come as I learn app.
Welcome. If you're only palm rolling sporadically, don't bother. It doesn't actually help create lasting knots. it's just something for your hands to do. Take up a craft instead. Or play music (my favorite past time). if you palm roll enough to see progress, it's too much, and severely destroys your locks. The risk isn't worth it.
So what are you washing with? Like Barrellady said, with locks, you need to be more careful about what you wash with. Hard water is the bane of most locks, because many people love Dr. Bronners. but it's a castile soap, and castile soaps don't work well in hard water
Welcome to the community and to the best site on the web for dreadlocks and all the right information you will ever need to know. No need to do any palm rolling, it really only temporarily does something and does cause future damage to dreads. All you really need to do is keep them clean and separate the sections when they try to join onto each other. Out of curiosity, what is the good smelly stuff you use on yours?
Here is a map of the states, if you have soft water, you can use any type of dread shampoo or bar, but with hard water, many of those do not work properly and slowly leave behind a residue build up. If you need a fantastic product that works in hard water, all water types in fact, go to www.dreadlockshampoo.com
vickies stuff is amazing to use, smells fantastic and all natural....enjoy the rest of your journey, and share a pic of your dreads too....peace