Welcome to the site Stephanie. I've a good tip for drying your locks: Use a towel the same color as your own hair, that way lint won't be noticed...Use a micro fiber towel (like a Shamwow) to soak the excess water out of your locks, takes hours of drying time away. Peace
WELCOME TO DREADLOCKSSITE AND HAPPY CONTINUED DREADING LOL PEACE AND LOVE UR METHODS ARE GOOD GOOD JOB i also started mine in september 2012 sweet im loving them so far love at first dread!!! haha heres my timeline ill check ur stuff and pics out wen available http://www.dreadlockssite.com/forum/topics/timeline-3
Oh, I forgot to mention. I use the soaps from dreadlockshampoo.com. I've used Dr. Bronners, and I'v used the BS/ACV wash. But for the past few months I've only used the dreadlocksmapoo soaps. They are outstanding. They work in hard and soft water. and they leave your hair feeling light, bouncy, and super clean
Ok, I'm not sure about everything, but 2 come to mind. if you have hard water, the castile soap is no good. it won't wash out well. It leave residues.
And most important, NEVER use lemon or lime juice. Even if they are diluted. Both juices are citric acid. While citric acid isn't strong on the scale of acids, it is more than strong enough to get soaked into the hair shaft and begin to break it down from the inside out. When you hear or have heard of people using lemon juice to lighten their hair, that lightening is how the damage shows up. It can severely weaken your hair, making it more brittle. The glycerin will condition it so it doesn't feel as brittle, but it won't fix the damage.
Heather could help you more with the other ingredients
Welcome. What's in the shampoo you make? Just curious. Heather will be able to help make sure it doesn't have anything that would leave a residue or have too many conditioners.
It's great you don't crochet anymore. Only felting is worse than crocheting. Not even wax is worse. Because you did do it to start, they will need about 6 months to recover. In that time, they will get frizzier. But don't worry. That is perfectly normal. Crocheting just does enough damage to cause those broken hairs to pop back out. They will eventually gt sucked back into the lock
Welcome. But trash the idea of the crochet method if you want to have healthy locks for years.
Crocheting is the second worst thing that can be done to locks. Felting is the only thing worse. Wax is even better for your locks. You can scrub wax out with plenty of detergent and time.
All crocheting does is rips your hair into smaller and smaller pieces. With every pass of the hook, you rips about 100 hairs into small pieces. The outcome is that the hair at the tips of your locks is no longer attached to your scalp. Instead it is attached to other broken hairs, attached to other broken hairs, etc... until finally it attaches to hair that is attached to your scalp. Over time, this weakens your locks by about 70%. A swift tug can actually snap off your locks in random places, even at the root, leaving a bald spot.
Also, crocheting over tightens your locks and makes them stiff and hard. The most mature locks are never stiff and hard. They should be soft and spongy.
Check out the dreaducation page and tool recover pages
Welcome to the site Stephanie. I've a good tip for drying your locks: Use a towel the same color as your own hair, that way lint won't be noticed...Use a micro fiber towel (like a Shamwow) to soak the excess water out of your locks, takes hours of drying time away.
Peace
WELCOME TO DREADLOCKSSITE AND HAPPY CONTINUED DREADING LOL PEACE AND LOVE UR METHODS ARE GOOD
GOOD JOB i also started mine in september 2012 sweet 
im loving them so far love at first dread!!! haha heres my timeline ill check ur stuff and pics out wen available 
http://www.dreadlockssite.com/forum/topics/timeline-3 
Welcome and Happy Dreading.
Always, Hippie Love
Oh, I forgot to mention. I use the soaps from dreadlockshampoo.com. I've used Dr. Bronners, and I'v used the BS/ACV wash. But for the past few months I've only used the dreadlocksmapoo soaps. They are outstanding. They work in hard and soft water. and they leave your hair feeling light, bouncy, and super clean
Ok, I'm not sure about everything, but 2 come to mind. if you have hard water, the castile soap is no good. it won't wash out well. It leave residues.
And most important, NEVER use lemon or lime juice. Even if they are diluted. Both juices are citric acid. While citric acid isn't strong on the scale of acids, it is more than strong enough to get soaked into the hair shaft and begin to break it down from the inside out. When you hear or have heard of people using lemon juice to lighten their hair, that lightening is how the damage shows up. It can severely weaken your hair, making it more brittle. The glycerin will condition it so it doesn't feel as brittle, but it won't fix the damage.
Heather could help you more with the other ingredients
welcome glad u only ccrocheted once thats very very bad for them
they are 6 months old so should just now be mostly recovered and starting to dread right
Welcome. What's in the shampoo you make? Just curious. Heather will be able to help make sure it doesn't have anything that would leave a residue or have too many conditioners.
It's great you don't crochet anymore. Only felting is worse than crocheting. Not even wax is worse. Because you did do it to start, they will need about 6 months to recover. In that time, they will get frizzier. But don't worry. That is perfectly normal. Crocheting just does enough damage to cause those broken hairs to pop back out. They will eventually gt sucked back into the lock
Welcome and Happy Dreading.
Always, Hippie Love
welcome lose interest in the crochet method thats 1 of the absolue worse
it does extreme permenant damage it takes 6 months after doing it once to see any dreading at all
they are stiff scratchy unconfortable
its just dread abuse
Welcome. But trash the idea of the crochet method if you want to have healthy locks for years.
Crocheting is the second worst thing that can be done to locks. Felting is the only thing worse. Wax is even better for your locks. You can scrub wax out with plenty of detergent and time.
All crocheting does is rips your hair into smaller and smaller pieces. With every pass of the hook, you rips about 100 hairs into small pieces. The outcome is that the hair at the tips of your locks is no longer attached to your scalp. Instead it is attached to other broken hairs, attached to other broken hairs, etc... until finally it attaches to hair that is attached to your scalp. Over time, this weakens your locks by about 70%. A swift tug can actually snap off your locks in random places, even at the root, leaving a bald spot.
Also, crocheting over tightens your locks and makes them stiff and hard. The most mature locks are never stiff and hard. They should be soft and spongy.
Check out the dreaducation page and tool recover pages