How often is to often

[dustinanashley]

How often should you retwist your hair? I had dreads before an was getting them twisted every other week. Now I'm back at it again with growing them. I've read a couple of place where they say that you should retwist the once a month in the baby location stages. I'm so confused I like getting them done every other week but don't want to damage my hair. An one more thing I use pro-style gel is that also good to use?

[Dreadlocktruth]

Well, the advice we generally give people is to leave it alone once their dreads get put in so I guess the most common answer you'll get is to not re-twist at all, not use any product and just let your locks do their thing. Your hair type should knot up really fast, anyway.

[jxbx]

The fact is, hair will dread when left alone. At the very least, you will separate into smaller chunks unless you want one big hair mat.

T&R, backcombing, towel rubbing, etc, will accelerate the process up to a certain point. From that point, nature needs to takeover and allow dreads to "find themselves."

From my experience, after the initial T&R'ing of my whole head, I would only have to go and "re-T&R" the ends of some 3-4 times at the most afterwards.

As a rule of thumb, the less product in your hair the better. There's stuff that's suppose to help dreads along, sea water will do the same, but I have yet to use either to dread.