What is a keratin treatment and what it does to hair?
The world of hair care is filled with new tricks, techniques, and trends for keeping your hair as beautiful and healthy as possible. It might be difficult to choose the best one. For example, you may have seen the products on the shelves with “Keratin” on the label. You may have also heard that many hair stylists recommend using the keratin treatment.
What is Keratin?
We can simply say that keratin is a naturally occurring fibrous structural protein that can be found on the skin, hair, and nails. Keratin works as the structural support in these body parts, and it also functions as the repair of acids. Everything that the skin does for protecting your skin is because of the keratinized cells.
Your 60-90% of hair is also made up of the keratin proteins. These proteins can also be used as healing agents. However, improper care of the hair can destroy the keratin.
Things like chemicals, heat, improper techniques and low-quality water can also destroy the keratin. Keratin treatments make hair more manageable, particularly for thick or frizzy hair. Those who frequently use heat styling tools can experience quicker drying of hair. Thus, keratin treatment also helps promote healthier hair by reducing the need for heat styling, resulting in stronger, less prone to breakage, potentially giving the appearance of faster hair growth.
Fortunately, there are a few steps to refresh the keratin in your hair that might have been lost in the past few days!
Advantages of the keratin treatment on hair:
Improves strength and elasticity
As mentioned above, keratin treatment helps fill the gaps caused by hair damage and protects the hair from brittleness and damage.
The keratin treatment will help the hair fight against everyday factors such as hairstyling, heated styling tools, and other causes of hair damage.
Smooth and straighter texture
The keratin treatment will give a smooth and straighter texture to the hair. It is the key to the professional treatment. For relaxing, neutralizing, and conditioning your hair into a straighter texture, keratin strengthening procedures are designed.
Sun exposure, hair dye and chemical treatments all delete hair’s natural condition, leading the weak parts to hair damage. Keratin treatments support these damaged areas, resulting in smoother hair shafts and a noticeable improvement in hair texture, resulting in silkier and shinier looks. You can use the keratin oil in the final step which can help you in recovering and holding the treatment.
Added UV protection
Keratin protein plays a great role in protecting hair from the sun’s harmful rays. The sun can cause different types of hair issues and also damage to beautiful looks.
UV protection should be considered mainly in the summer season when you go out. Keratin treatment is very helpful for protecting your hair from the sun’s rays.
Restore moisture and shine
Moisture retention of your hair will be decreased when the exterior cuticle of the hair is compromised. Your hair will be more suitable to retain moisture by repairing the integrity of the cuticle.
The keratin treatment will help to restore the moisture of the hair and makes it more shiny and brighter than before.
How does it work?
A hair stylist applies the product of keratin hair-straightening in your hair and uses the heat devices of a flat iron to make it straight. The process might take up to 90 minutes or longer than that, depending on the length of your hair.
The keratin products of the salon include the keratin complex smoothing therapy by Global Keratin Complex, Coppola, Brazilian Keratin Treatment, La-Brasilian treatment, Brazilian Hair Straightening, and the Brazilian Blowout.
After the treatment, you can just forget about the frizzy hair and walk out in the moist or light rain. Your hair will not change.
