Posts made in September, 2009
Shampooing Your Dreads
For natural dreads there are products you can buy that are specially made for shampooing your dreadlocks. Generally these are gentle, no detangling shampoos. Meaning don’t buy anything that has intense moisturizers in them because this will cause your dreads, real or not to unravel. For natural dreadlock maintenance, care and cleaning I recommend Knotty Boy or DreadHead. When washing your natural dreads you would basically repeat the same process as you would wash non-dreaded hair, except no running your fingers through it. J Now, synthetic dreads are a little different. You want to avoid getting your dreads soaked as much as possible, especially if there is soap...
Read MoreSwimming with Dread Extensions
Is it bad for to go into a swimming pool with natural dreadlocks or synthetic dread extensions? There are many misconceptions about dreadlocks in general, such as; dreads are smelly, they make your scalp flaky. Or the most popular, you can’t wash your hair when you have dreads. This is not true, whether you have natural or synthetic dreads, there is no reason you aren’t able to keep healthy clean hair! Also a huge misconception about dread extensions is that you cannot get them wet at all. You want to try and get your fake dreads wet as little as possible. However, it’s understood that people like to swim and everyone enjoys washing their hair, so I make my dreads...
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