Transform Your Look with Lavender's Lokks Extensions

Wash no more than once a week with color safe shampoo and cool water, no conditioner. Shampoo your scalp, no need to wash the length of the dread. Massage gently in between the braids and rinse really, really well. Do not condition.

A dreadlocks night cap is recommended, especially for synthetic dreadlocks installed on loose hair.

Chlorine causes the color to fade from wool dreadlocks, so I do not recommend swimming with them in. You can always tie them up and avoid submerging your head.  You can sit in the pool or hot-tub, though! 

When you have washed your dreads, it is super important that they dry thoroughly! After you have squeezed as much water as you can out of your dreads, wrap a towel on your head for 30 to 60 minutes to try to pull the rest of the water out. Let them air dry.  Make sure your dreads are dry before you go to sleep or are tied up.

A refreshening spray can be a good solution! Just spray this on your scalp and it will calm down.

Wool dreadlocks will not damage your hair, if installed correctly. 

The only time where you should think about damage at all is when you go to remove the dreads, after weeks or possibly months of having them installed. You will see some hair loss. Rest assured, there is a reason behind this. Naturally, you lose about 100 strands of hair each day ~ everyone does. When you have these dreadlocks braided in, your hair still naturally falls out, the only difference is now they have nowhere to go. They become trapped in the braid that is holding your dreadlock in place. Needless to say, if you leave these dreadlocks installed for 2 months, you will end up combing out chunks of your hair. DON”T WORRY! This is natural. 

If your wool dreadlocks smell like vinegar when you receive them, that is because vinegar is used during the dying process.  If it bothers you, you can spray them with fabric freshener, put essential oils on them, or wash them with your choice of color safe shampoo in luke warm water.

I recommend finger combing through your dreadlocks at least once a day to keep them separated.  The wool fiber likes to lock together sometimes, especially if you have tied them up.

After getting your wool dreads wet, they will sometimes get lumpy.  After you have squeezed out as much water as you can, but before they are completely dry, start palm rolling each dreadlock from as close to your scalp as possible down to the end.  This should help work out any lumps and will also help work more water out.