How often do you wash your dreads?

My hair is pretty freakin' oily, and without dreads I need to wash daily. With my dreads, can I wash daily?

 

Sometimes I do....i try to make it stretch at least every other day though

 

and what is your favorite product to use ^^^ ?
i have no clue what to do, or use for that matter..

 

After removing my first set of dreads I was tired of washing them every. single. day my hair was that oily. You could always wean your hair off being washed so much. Start washing it every two days for a week. Then the following week every third day and so on. I wash my hair once a week

 

I just throw up a little in my mouth! I really really dislike you LordAshendale. That is horrible

 

seriously! Thank God thats gone!

 

Yeah really! Im mentally scarred now

 

it took me a couple of hours to recover from that one! eeeewww.

 

twice a week cuz the itchyness comes after 3-4 days without washing 8)

 

Out of morbid curiosity what was it??

 

I wash mine once a week, generally use Dr Bronners 12:1 then the following week I will Dr bronners it then deep clense to follow! That makes em' feel good!
Peace of the Grove /|\
Alex

 

if you can stop stripping your hair, it should be less oily within a month. its something the body naturally does after a while. i used to wash every morning like you but now they just get wet and scrubbed in the morning, no shampoo. i use dr b's on my hair once or twice a week, depending if i am feeling icky.

 

Wait, what happened? What did I miss? also thanks everyone for all the great info. This site is soooo helpful. I just finished my dreads last night and have lots of hope for them! they seem a little puffy though.... But I'm guessing that usual.

As for Dr. Bronner's.... Is This the kind you use? it doesn't specify it's use so I'm unsure which is which.

 

I wanted to know what happened too

Yea i use the Rose liquid soap. It works for me and my partner pretty well and smells great too.

 

I would like to know what i could do with my bottles as i know you can refill them but i'm from the UK and don't think there's any shops in this country let alone locally that sell it. I could recycle them but if there's an option i could sent them back for them to reuse them i'd sooner do that.

 

Oh you guys...you dont wanna know...it was a very disturbing and graphic picture...there were body parts, blood, and other bodily fluids.......bwahhhhh. Im not sure if it was a joke, a shock factor thing, or if the guy who posted it is a serious serial killer....it was bad.

 

yep. I use the lavendar bar soap. Its yummish.

 

wow, people are very strange. I wonder how that person benefited from that. Awesome, I think I'm going for the almond soap... yummy.

 

almond smells amazing
as for refilling ..look into loca health food stores and specidficaly co-ops co oips are generaly the most conceise so are mosdt likely to have az refilling station

 

Personally washing it once a week is pushing it for me. I like a minimum of a week and sometimes 2 before washing. The more you wash and remove the oils the more your head will produce to counter act this. Before I dreaded my hair I couldnt go a full day without hating my hair because it was so oily. I stopped washing regularly and stopped brushing(obviously) and after about 6 months the oil totally stabilized.