Locks and Washing

[cclark1]

Today I was in Whole Food looking for an all natural conditioner. The salesperson had natural hair (like mine) and I asked her what she used. She said that she was grow locks and so she just used her bodies own natural oils??? So I guess that means that she DOESN'T wash her hair. To me that sounds very unusual. Can anyone clarify this for me.

 

[spacetygrss]

Ummm, she probably meant that she doesn't use conditioner. I've had locks and I washed my hair weekly. However, I RARELY used creamy conditioner because it's hard to get out of locks. I would just wash and then put a little oil on my hands and run my fingers through my hair. There are also herbal rinses that are used to condition the hair.

 

[natstar]

When I had locs I washed them with some aveda clove shampoo & conditioner- the products were deep brown in color to avoid white build up. I never heard of not washing locs erplexed

 

[JustKiya]

There is a concept of cleaning hair called Water Only. It's interesting to consider, but it has some solid reasoning behind it.

I never thought it would work well on kinky hair..... but on locs, it actually might. Hrmm. Interesting.

She might also be going for free form locks - but even still, I'm pretty sure those are usually washed - just not conditioned.