How to Shampoo Dreadlocks

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Let's talk about shampooing now. Shampooing is important but, you do want to be kind of gentle when you are just starting out and you want to use your dread soap and any kind, any kind is good but, the main thing is that it need to be something that doesn't leave a residue in your hair because that is what gunks them up and get them gross and can keep them from locking up. So you get your soap and you get your hair wet. Get them all wet and then... when you are applying shampoo you're mainly getting it on your scalp. So you put you apply it to your scalp and what you are going to do is you want to use the palms of your hands to go in and in a clockwise fashion or I suppose you could do counterclockwise I don't know if it would matter but, the same way each time. You just want to make it lather and just kind of rub your scalp like this, and that actually helps your dreads lock up too. So you just want to do that all over and make sure you get the sides and do that. Now if your if your scalp's not clean the soap won't lather, so you will know when you've gotten your scalp clean enough, when your soap is lathering. So you want to do that for a while, and some dread soaps have tea tree oil and other products in them, and so you want to leave it in for a few minutes, and then you want to rinse it out. You want to make sure you rinse really well. Actually, when you are washing out your scalp, washing over your dreadlocks cleans them off. I do like to work a little bit of soap into the dreads just to keep them clean, and to get any smells like smoke, or you know other things that they may have absorbed - because they do absorb smells - like, a lot. Especially smoke smell. So if you are around smoky places, cigarette smoke, or any place that has fire, where there is a lot of it, it would get into your hair and stink. So, just kind of work it in like you would in a sponge and make sure you just rinse really, really well. That is really important, to get all the product out of your hair, and that is basically it. After you shampoo you want to make sure that you put your hair up in a towel, especially when your dreads get longer, for at least 20 minutes. If you don't, they would stay wet and they could get smelly and moldy, so that is important.

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