dry hair out more?

Anything I can add into my Dr. Bronners solution to help dry my hair out more? Maybe a salt water spray after each shower?

It's naturally pretty greasy so I shower every day (every other day at most). My hair's curly but it still has a slippery/shiny texture to it. Here's some pics of my hair right now.. a day after I showered.





current favorite.. i wish they were all this tight:

 

many people say salt water does not help at all but some others say it does. I guess its worth a shot i mean worst case it does nothing. Heat can dry out hair mayb try blow drying it after each shower?

 

It definetly helped my hair. My hair is naturally very soft and straight/wavy. So I took a bunch of sea salt and put it in an empty spray bottle and added water. Shook it up, sprayed it on. I noticed a difference. I'll spray it on once in awhile and before bed. I sleep with a wool sweater on my pillow I find that helps too.

Unfortunetly no oceans are nearby for me to jump in

 

sounds good

I actually did that a lot in the beginning and i remember loving the texture it gave my hair.. forgot why I stopped. I'm also planning on taking a trip to a fabric store and buying some wool to make pillow cases out of.. hope it's not too pricey.

 

A hair dryer would help but I'd guess you need to make sure you don't hold it too close to avoid damaging the dreads.

 

Dr. Bronners is actually not a good match for all hair types. If it is making your hair greasy....or at least not helping with the grease factor then maybe your not diluting it properly? If you insist on the Bronners try using the bar soap instead of the bottle stuff. if it still doesnt work experiment with different soaps till you find one that helps and is good for your hair type. Bronners made my hair really greasy. I use Everclean antidandruff shampoo. Its an organic version of head and shoulders and I swear by it for dreadheads! Its awesome!

 

Showering every(other)day won't help. When your dreads become mature They'll take a day to dry naturally. You hair gets greasy so quickly because you wash it so often. Wash it less, and your hair will get used to not being washed so often, so it won't get greasy. I wash my dreads every 1-2 weeks, and I don't use shampoo. And my hair doesn't even get greasy.

 

+1...you gotta teach your hair to produce less oils. The best way to do this is to adapt to washing less and less...ie, if you wash every 2 days normally, try stretching it to 3, then 4, 5, etc. I also greatly prefer baking soda to Bronner's, especially since I have hard water and the combination leaves a filmy residue in my dreads. I wash every week - two weeks, btw.

 

we have very similar hair. At first I had the same problem but just forced myself to wait more between washes, first I washed them every 2 days, then every 3 days, now I wash them every 5-6 days. Trust me if you do that it will get better. Also I would try the baking soda solution as it dries the hair

 

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Why is this the first time I am hearing about this product!? I am actually in the midst of trying to adapt my scalp to only washing with water, but if my itchiness doesn't stop soon I might try that Everclean stuff. Am yet to find something that works. My Bronner's bar wasn't too great, so I just use it as body soap now.

 

I used a clensing shampoo that took out all the mositure in my hair when I first started my dreads. Some of my friends were hair stylist and said the build up of some shampoos put moisture and coat the hair with glosses and such to create a soft and conditioned hair so when you have a build up of too much mositure it causes hair to get heavy so they sell shampoos to get clense the hair to strip all the build up that you wash with like once a week or month. I bought a shampoo from neutragena and washed with that to take the mositure out and that helped big time. I'd say try to find something like that. P.s longest sentance ever.

 

Well I deff. like to shower every day or at least every other day.. so should I just run water over my hair those days and then use Dr. Bronners on the 3rd or 4th day? Or does that count as washing my hair still? Just a little confused on what's being recommended.

Thanks

 

Shower as often as you want.
Getting your hair wet on days that you don't wash it is fine. (eventually the locks will take longer to dry and you have to make sure they fully dry out before you get them wet again, but for the first year or so of neglect it's not an issue)
The recommendation is that you slowly increase the number of days between washes. This, along with washing with something that doesn't leave a lot of residue, will train/allow your scalp to produce less oils/become more balanced.
Also recommended is that you give baking soda a try. Just spoon or funnel some into a bottle, fill it up with water, give it a shake, bring it in the shower and pour it on your head, massage your scalp, rinse. Baking soda is basically salt anyways so it will help in the drying things out department as well.

 

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It really works wonders. I had horrible itchies and dandruff in the beginning too but havnt now in 2 1/2 years because of it! Awesome.

 

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cook up some coke with some bking soda and apply liberally

 

Go for some organic hair product so that you can get your hair soft and smooth....

 

go to the thrift shop and buy an oversized wool sweater, cut the arms off and sew. super cheap wool pillow case cover! plus its upcycling