DreadHead HQ Dread Head - Lock Peppa Mega Tightener

Works very well. If you are a white person with dreadlocks you can use this shortly after washing your hair to tighten everything back up while palmrolling. It works pretty well but I absolutely recommend just adding this on to what you do with your hair instead of using it as any type of replacement for your routine.It is also very good while starting your dreads. Just don't use too much or you'll run out quick.When buying this please remember that even though it looks like a salt or pepper shaker, it does not go directly on your hair, shake it onto a flat surface or onto your hands and rub it into your hair, otherwise it will be very messy and ineffective.I used this and a crochet needle for my hair and my dreadlocks locked within 6 months.

This is basically talcum powder that helps make hair dry before starting dreads with backcombing

This product is awesome. I've only had dreads in for 2 months so they didnt resemble dreads as much as they did curly bed head hair. After this it made them look so much more like dreads. I'm so happy with it. With this powder I put some in a little bowl, dipper a couple fingertips in and rubbed the roots and down the whole shaft, using as much as I felt necessary. I worked it in by teasing, and twisting and rubbing.

People are skeptical of this product, without knowing the first thing about the ingredients or about hair. You have to understand exactly how the lay of your cuticles effect the locking process, and how ingredients in this product that are the same as the ingredients in some anti-parasitic and pesticides work before you can shoot it down.On a microscopic layer, there may or may not be little layers lifted up on a single individual hair that look a bit like shingles lifting up on a roof. Those are your cuticles. People with kinky African texture hair usually have cuticles that are slightly lifted. Lifted cuticles tend to cling to the cuticles of other neighboring hairs. With the lifted cuticle layer combined with the tight coils characteristic of this hair type, the hair tends to hug itself more efficiently, making African kinky textured hair lock up more quickly.Others may have cuticles that lay flat on a microscopic layer. People with straight hair textures such as those with Asian or European background that tend to have a gloss to their hair often have smooth unlifted cuticles. You'll know if you're this type if you have the kind of hair that just slips right back loose when you try to braid it or attempt styles with hold to it. This is the type that is difficult to dreadlock, and it is this hair type that this product is aimed at.This is where lock peppa comes in. The main ingredient is silica. Silica is nontoxic. It is a fine power which, on a microscopic scale, is very abrasive. It is used in some pesticides and antiparisitic applications because, on a microscopic level, it shreds up the insect's exoskeleton, and dries the insect out. It is a bit safer than most chemical/poisonous pesticide, because it doesn't work the same way. The main issue with silica is not breathing it in, because it might irritate the lungs. It is also noteworthy that it's abrasive action is widely used in toothpaste, which helps scrape the crap off your teeth. So it's definitely not the demon that people want to make it out to be.My best guess is that the main ingredient in Lock Peppa, silica, helps aid in locking by scratching up the cuticle layer of the hair on a microscopic level, which then helps the hairs to grip each other more, the same as if they did if you had naturally lifted cuticles.My main concern with silica is whether it washes out of the dreadlocks easily. I think it's not too much of a problem, provided you follow the manufacturers instructions about just putting a tiny dab on the finger and applying it to your locs this way.Being African American with a surprisingly recently discovered high amount of European DNA mixed in me (40%), I have hair that is very curly and EXTREMELY slippery. My hairs have a very high gloss to it, even when it's completely naked, and my cuticles lay very closed. Braids do not stay with me well. I started my locs with braids and found that I had to make them close to the size of my natural curl pattern, because it is the curl pattern that I had to rely on to help the process of locking along and the hairs hug each other, rather than the gripping at the cuticle layer typical of most afro-type hair. I used rubber bands or hair glue at the ends to keep my hair together while it locked. I have had locs for going on 4 years now. They once reached the small of my back, but I recently cut them to a chin length bob.I purchased this product because I wanted something to help the constantly unraveling that happened after I cut my hair. I want to keep it cut to this length, because besides the unraveling, I love my hair like this. Because silica is not water soluble, I feel uncomfortable putting it at the roots of my hair, but I am ok putting it at the ends, since eventually they will be clipped again anyway. I found that this stuff does add a grip to the hair, but it is not permanent as I had hoped. As soon as water rinses out the powder, it goes to being slippery once again. I was hoping for something a bit more permanent, but I do think it does fine for what I'm looking for. It might grip more and hold better if I loaded it up with this powder, but I don't want to have a white tint to my dark locs at the ends. I may switch back to hair glue again, but for now, I'll keep trying this.Since I am a woman not afraid to experiment, especially at the tip ends of my locs which will be eventually snipped off anyway, I did try a dab of toothpaste at the ends of my locs, since the ingredients with this and toothpaste is actually comparable. I found that the toothpaste also, even more efficiently, held the tips of my locs together, but cleanly washed out at shampoo time. So I think the makers of this product was definitely onto something with the use of the ingredients in this product.Definitely not snake oil!

LOVED this stuff! I used it to start my new dreads and add extensions. I was so frustrated at first because I couldn’t get my thin straight hair to lock easily. I used this and it was amazing how easy it was to get my locks going after. You need very little so I did my whole head and used not even half a bottle. I only needed it at my roots to get the initial lock going. I read other reviews and I can see how using to much would gum everything up. It’s meant to be lightly sprinkled I think. That’s what I did and it worked wonders! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻