Locksteady Tropical Dreadlock Tightening Gel 4oz

This stuff is great. It's a clear, thin gel that you can apply a very small amount to each dreadlock or, (as I do), run your coated fingers lightly through your locks 1-2 times while they're damp, and then palm roll a wee bit. They feel a bit sticky until they're dry, so I hit them with some low heat from the blow dryer to accelerate the drying. USE SPARINGLY. This product keeps loose hair from escaping the dreadlock and encourages new growth and frizz to stay with their friends and not mingle too much. There is no scent to this when it's dry, and used in the correct amount on my (curly, Caucasian) hair, it's neither drying nor oily. It's perfect, my dreadlocks are so happy with this and they get their fix once a week :)

I purchased this item to help get my sons new dreads to form. His hair wasn't very long and he didn't want to wait for his hair to go out. He has a combination of fine and course straight hair. I used the thin gel to start the locks. It does get flaky and hard if you mess with it too much, but since I was using it at the start, I just spritzed his hair with water and continued to work on it. It was fine. After I was all done, he left it for a couple of days and then washed it out and dried it well. The flakes were gone and the hair was soft. Every few days we would work the small hairs back in, apply the gel and palm roll. The gel worked perfectly and helped keep his dreads neat. -1 star for the flaking but other than that, this gel was awesome. Too bad my son ended up cutting all his dreads off a few months later. I don't think he realized it was going to take as much work as it did to get them started.

Being new to dreads I wasn't really sure what to expect. I have thin caucasian kinda wavy hair that isn't ideal to dread and this worked wonders. It really helped to tame my frizzy brand new dreads and keep them kinda organized where I could let them begin to dread together without looking like a birds nest was made on my head. It also did not leave any residue in my hair - it all washed out really well with a 50/50 mix of apple cider vinegar and water. I did order the knotty boy wax to try to get the hairs at the end of each dread to form up and roll into the dreads but that was a TERRIBLE mistake - I highly recommend against. Just stick with this gel and aloe vera for quick touch ups and you will be good to go!

This product was extremely sticky on my fingers and made it very hard to actually twist my hair. My fingers were sticking to everything. Once it finally dried, there was white build up in my locs and it made my hair very hard and crunchy. I bought this product specifically to avoid product build up. I read on another site that this tightening gel wouldn't do that, but I guess not. Would not buy again.

well at first i was really disappointed because i paid for this expecting a dread wax like other knottyboy waxes.so i opened it up twisted off the cap and was really surprised when i touched it but whatever i put it on a spot thats nothing close toa dread (my dreads are a year old basically fully matured except problem places)and twisted and ripped and it was undone it probably 15 minutes.so it definitely not like the wax. but then i realized that it wasnt for that (about 5 minutes ago) and applied about a 2 quarter size amount on all of mydreads at once and it dried SUPER FAST and it smells AMAZING!!and after they dry they look nice and i can see how over time this could work. but not for little dreadies :Pso now im buying wax!

Shipped quickly, good price. Product SMELLS AMAZING, and it's slippery consistency makes it super easy to get off your hands (don't even need to wash it off). It does a great job of getting those fuzzies in place, as well as help knot up your incoming roots. I use it on my real hair dreads and my synthetic dreads, works well on both! I would recommend to anyone.

This gel works so well. I love using the stuff it keeps my dreads really nice and neat and together. The only thing I have a problem with is the residue it leaves on your hair.

When I first opened it I was a little worried because it looked watery. I was wondering how is this going to hold my hair. I applied it on dry hair. I used it to twist my roots as I was styling my hair. All my stray hairs are nicely tucked and tighten in my hair style. It actually worked better than I thought. As it dried my hair texture became a little rough as if it was in urgent need of moisturizer. But I sprayed a little oil on my scalp and hair and it was cool. When my hair was completely dry, the hair style tightens more. Over all a good product and I would use it again. Not many locing gels get all the little crazy hairs like this one