Dread Clening for EXTREEM Ick?

Ok, my man is talking about getting dreads. He is planing on a natural lather free cleansing routine. As a gal with no dreds who gose days without shampoo, and even then use sulfate free, a non-shampoo that doesn't lather won't bother me most days, as long as he isn't smelly.

My concern is not most days. My concern is what needs to happen if someone pukes in his hair, or the rancid trash bag explodes, or plumbing goes terribly wrong. Since I will also be around the dreds in question, I am willing to lend a hand, but how can we BOTH be sure to get the really nasty bio-hazard sort of messes out of dreads when life goes pear shaped? Since he will be around my niece and nephew, at times, these kinds of disturbingly gross things getting in his hair are not paranoia, they are likely, so I would like to know how to handle them BEFORE they happen.

 

The Answer Tis Simple, Don't Associate With People

Who Throw Up On Other People....

Problem Solved...:2thumbsup:



Cheers Glen.

 

Tell that to a 5 year old and see what happens after he forces birthday cake on too full of a stomach while his sis is running a muck. By that point, you can't even scold him properly cause he's too little to know better and already miserable.

Kids will be kids, puke and all. I am not even a mother and I have been puked on by kids.

Also, stupid drunks turn up in the strangest places all day long. surprise flu and food poisoning can also hit any time. I have had days I had to clean MY puke out of my hair, and in time his dreads will be in his own spitting range.

Things happen. Planning ahead take the frustration down a notch.

 

Deep clean the dreadlocks.

 

What do I need for that? And how can I be sure to get all the way into the dread? I worry that they will get like the kitchen sponge when it gets to old. Should I expect more than one rinse?

 

Baking soda and apple cider vinegar with a few essential oils is AMAZING. All you have to do is soak the dreads in the solution and just wring them out a couple of times. As long as you properly dry dreadlocks they won't smell mildewed like an old sponge.

 

Unless you're squeezing the dreads as soon as they get puked on, the puke won't be going down to the core. Washing should do the trick.

Guess I'm lucky enough that I've never had a single problem like that.

 

So soak and rinse, sniff, and repeat if necessary?

How can you be sure the germs are good and dead?

Though thanks for the tip on mildew prevention. I'm allergic to mold and mildew, but I have a perfectly good ionic hair dryer.

 

Soak the dreads in gasoline and set them on fire

 

yeh the best thing is the baking soda, apple cider vinegar deal. stuff is magical

 

Why cider vinegar? I get acid+base, but why that acid over others? I would think the higher pigmentation may leave more residue than a vinegar that's more highly refined.

And if it's simply because ACV is more natural, you may want to check your sources on baking soda.

 

id doesnt leave residue trust me. do u have an alternative?

 

It's the Mother of Vinegar in ACV that gives it an edge over the other vinegars.

I think you're being overly concerned about residue. No need to be that picky over vinegars.

 

Ok, so for cleaning, vinegar is vinegar. For cooking, malt, rice, cider and so on matter.

As far as I can tell, mother of vinegar dose the same thing as filtered vinegar, except the bacteria that cause the fermentation are still active and it's slimy. how dose this help me prevent residue, exactly? eating it like yogurt, I can kind of understand, but topically or as a cleaner, it seems kind of, well, slimy.

 

ive never dealt with slimy vinegar. u must be gettin some weird shit.

 

If mother of vinegar is left to grow, it becomes a slimy organic substance that gets filtered out of the vinegar, and in some cases used in cooking. It also contains the bacteria needed to convert starch to vineger, so if you make your own vineger from scratch, it's your starter. However, if you make wine or beer from scratch, it's the same bacteria that will ruin you batch.

And my step dad makes a wicked wonderful mead, so I have to know a bit about microbes for lending a hand. The right organism in the right place makes sweet alchoholic nector that sips like koolaid, hits like whiskey, and is unmistakably honey. The wrong organism is a waist of supplies and makes us sad.

Since I don't aim to make vinegar on purpose and mother of vinegar seems to get used the same way as distilled vinegar for the most part, I don't know that I need the mother, but a good champagne yeast will make the family happy.

 

I don't understand why you would mix baking soda and vinegar, why not just the vinegar. baking soda and vinegar neutralize each other

 

They also create bubbles, like peroxide or soap lather. The acid/base reaction causes a difrent effect than a base or an acid alone, both in cooking and cleaning. Oxygenation can help with killing microbes. Acid based cleaners help by breaking down minerals that can feed organism i.e if nothing can stick to the surface, nothing can grow on the surface, as well as a stron acid can break down protein and grease. Base cleaners simply break down oils and proteins but only break down organic matter.

And if your base or acid is too strong, it will make a chemical burn because both will break down the protein that holds your skin together. In theory, the baking soda and vineger wash is ph balanced so it won't break down the protein the hair is made of. indavidualy in a 2 step, the basic soda opens the hair shaft and strips off the oil, then the vineger neutralizes it in the rinse and closes the hair shaft the same way Sodium Laural Sulfate shampo and company partnered conditioner work in modern hair care.

In reality, if you don't have the mix just right, you are being no more gentle to your hair than when using a professional peroxide based bleach. In the context of cleaning out a bio-hazard, screw gentle, but residue is important.

 

yeh ur not supposed to mix them, bs, then acv.

 

That makes a stronger base and acid if your water ratio is off. and if you don't mix them before it gose on the hair, what do you think happens when you get to step 2?

And if a rinse took all the baking soda out and controled tangling is the target of dreads, why do you need the vinegar at all? I understand if the ick has gotten to the scalp that ph ballance can complicate skin health, but if the dread that's dirty is some distance away, is the vinegar really necessary?