AND.....

they stay wet so long sometimes that they can get moldy before they dry. EEeeeeeewwww...... Just what I don't want is MOLD in my hair!! I have a couple of cowlicks and they're bad enough to deal with.

There was a skinny white guy who used to come into the bar where I bartended for a while years ago and he had dreads. Being curious about them, I asked about how you formed them, how you cared for them, what it was like to have them. He was great--told me lots about them. But he said he had do use a mold retardant on them because of the drying length time.