3 Easy at home Loc maintenance routines (No Tools)

Why do loctician always say to palm roll?

Today I wanted to bring you some dreadlock education. This is a video for anybody wanting to know how to take care of their dreadlocks/locs at home. No product, and no interlocking!
I chose to bring you 3 major points, (separating / root rubbing / and palm rolling (both damp and dry)) that when combined can get you through any stage of your journey. Weather you chose all natural, back combing and palm rolling, crochet locs, or professionally maintained, these three things will help keep your dreadlocks separated and growing healthy, with just our hands.
This is easy, and low effort maintenance with a great impact, that once you have practiced will only take a little time, and will keep your locs growing growing healthy and beautiful. Locticians aren’t necessary for locs.
Friends are very helpful, and so are locticians.
And yes, I venture to say… Unless you understand, and know how to use a crochet hook, that you don’t try to learn on your locs or anyone else’s until you do.
Which is also where professional locticians and dreadlock artists come in to play.
As well as loctician courses and crochet at home courses can be of help.
There are so many ways to have your journey, and any way you choose is perfectly beautiful.
In this educational tutorial, I cover…
1) how to separate your locs in one or two minutes, and never have to rip apart dreadlocks that are growing together.
2) how to get your loose hair under control with an easy way of getting your new growth wrapped around your base of your locs to prepare for a root rubbing technique. This gets all of your hairs together in each separated base and matted into the (otherwise grown out) base of your dreadlocks. Growing healthy and strong.

Which brings us to
3) palm rolling.
Both wet and dry, and the science of hair behind what is happening when water is in the equation. And why it is so important to palm roll your dreadlocks both ways.
Frictions when dry palm rolling will create softened and tamed hairs down the length of your locs.
When damp palm rolling is creating a “broken hydrogen bond” in the hair, and then reforming that bond as it dries into place. Much like a “wet set” with curlers over night. Helps to form your dreadlocks over time.

I hope this helps all of you deadheads out there looking for good solid information.
And even more so, I hope this sparks some thoughts inside of you hairdressers and dreadlock artists/locticians out there about what’s happening in the science of the hair and why we tell our clients the things we do.

If you have questions, or specific things you want to see content on… or ideas you want to talk about, I’m always open for discussions. Please feel free to comment and I’ll keep bringing you videos of my knowledge.

Thanks for watching

Music: Last Summer
Musician: @iksonmusic