Five Steps to healthy locs
Now that we know how important the proper dreadlock maintenance routine is to your hair, let’s look at the simple steps that you can take today to allow your locks to reach their full potential.
- EasyDreadlock Maintenance tips and techniques for caring for your beautiful dreadlocks.
Wash: Use a residue-free product to clean your locks. This will help you to reduce lint in your hair. If you need to know how to remove lint build up in your dreadlocks, read the article here. The frequency with which you wash your locks will depend on your lifestyle. If you’re more active than most, then you’ll need to consider washing your hair more often to reduce the build-up that sweat can produce on your scalp. If you’re less active, your dreadlock maintenance routine shouldn’t have to include washing your hair more than weekly.
Tone: This is an often skipped part of everyone’s hair care routine, whether we’re talking about dreadlock maintenance or any another hair style. Unfortunate to say the least, because toning (or gently messaging your scalp) for a few minutes not only feels great but helps release natural oils from your sebaceous glands. It also helps reduce dry scalp issues.
Condition: Much debated in the dreadlocks community, conditioning your hair restores your locks from the root and can correct surface damage. If you are really worried about conditioner prolonging the locking process or undoing your locks, then only use it on tips.
Groom: There are a few ways to groom your locks in order to promote the locking process with the hair closest to the roots. You can latch-hook, custom loc tool, palm roll or root rub. Or you can let nature take its course and use the freeform technique.
Style: This is the part that everyone loves about dreads. The hair style is so full of character that they look great even when you do nothing.
Can It Get Any Easier Than This?
There are several tips that will make dreadlock maintenance even easier.
First, use the right hair care supplies. These range from products like shampoos, conditioners, waxes (or wax alternatives) and accessories like latch-hooks, loc tool, rat-tail combs, hair dryers, towels and hair accessories like beads. Having these supplies on hand will make all the difference.
Secondly, learn from professional dreadlock stylists. Also known as locticians, these specialized hair stylists know what they are talking about when it comes to taking good care of dreadlocks.
Once you’ve got the grooming part down pat, try not to go overboard. That leads to the last tip: stop playing with your hair so much. No matter what you do, new growth will show up at the roots and make your hair look less ‘maintained’.
This is big concern for lock wearers in the corporate world and particular social circles, but know that constant grooming can retard the locking process or leave you with thin locks that are overly stressed out (which is what we’re trying to avoid in the first place).
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