What is Keratin Care? How To?
Keratin care is a type of hair care that allows us to repair our dried and damaged hair and also straightens the hair.
In this article, we will share how to do keratin care for our hair at home and information about keratin care.
What is Keratin Care?
Keratin care is a type of hair care that restores the moisture and health of hair that has lost its health, has become dry and damaged due to factors such as dyeing, hair lightening processes, high temperatures and sea water.
Keratin care, when applied with heat, straightens the wavy and curly structure in the hair strands and provides permanent straightness.
People with thick, frizzy and curly hair can have permanently straight hair by having keratin treatment.
What Does Keratin Care Do and What Are Its Benefits?
Keratin treatment moisturizes our hair, makes it easier to comb and gives it a straighter appearance. Keratin not only cares for our hair, but also has many contributions.
For example, if you are a working person and have to blow dry your hair almost every day, you can save time by doing a keratin treatment.
If you have extremely frizzy hair, you can get rid of the frizz you don’t like with keratin care.
If your hair is extremely damaged and dry, you will have more vibrant and shiny hair after applying keratin care.
Who Should and Shouldn’t Get Keratin Treatment?
Who Should Have It Done?
- Those whose hair is dry and damaged.
- Those who constantly have their hair treated.
- People who constantly blow dry.
- Those who have hair that is frizzy and difficult to comb.
- Those who want to have straight hair.
Who Should Not Have It Done?
- Those who have healthy hair.
- Those with thin and dull hair.
How to Perform Keratin Care?
Keratin care goes through certain stages. Follow these steps carefully and diligently, one by one. If you follow all the applications very carefully, you can also do the keratin treatment that professional hairdressers do.
While reading this article, if you want to learn about the keratin brands used by hairdressers and their effects, I will leave a link below;
Now how to take keratin care for your hair? We explain it step by step under headings.
1. Preparation
Before starting keratin care, we need some equipment. These equipment are:
- Keratin care product
- Stamp
- Paintbrush
- Shish (thin) comb
- Hair dryer
- Pliers
- Glove
- straightener
- Towel
- Purifying shampoo
Wash your hair with purifying shampoo. For it to show its full effect, wash it twice and wait for your second wash for approximately 5-10 minutes.
Purifying shampoo plays an important role in locking the keratin applied externally into our hair by opening the scale layers in the hair pores.
Do not apply any conditioner or hair care product after washing your hair. Comb your hair with a detangling brush and remove excess water from your hair with a towel.
2. Remove Excess Moisture from Hair
Do not apply any conditioner or hair care product after washing your hair. Comb your hair with a detangling brush and remove excess water from your hair with a towel.
3. Applying Keratin to Hair
Put the keratin product you have purchased for your hair in a non-metal bowl and apply the things listed below to your hair step by step.
- Separate your hair into four parts using a comb.
- To start applying, separate a thin pinch from the nape of your neck.
- Gather the remaining hair on top using forceps.
- Apply keratin with a brush to the middle and tip parts of the bottom, leaving 1 centimeter from the bottom.
- Comb from root to tip using a fine comb.
- And apply this process to all your hair.
4. Leave in Hair
After applying the keratin completely to your hair, you need to wait approximately 30 minutes. During this 30 minutes, the keratin treatment we applied will slowly begin to penetrate into our hair, whose scale layer is open.
5. Drying
After the waiting period of 30 minutes is over, we can dry our hair, but we want to give you a tip here; Since there is product in the hair, it will be heavier and dry more slowly.
To ensure that your hair dries earlier, you can dry your hair more easily if you scrape off the excess keratin with a comb and wipe it on a napkin before starting the drying process.
After drying your hair with a blow dryer so that there is no moisture left, you can blow dry it with a blow dryer brush for straightening purposes.
6. Locking Keratin in Hair with Heat
After the drying process is completed, we now come to the final stage, which is to lock the keratin we applied with the straightener into the hair.
We have listed below what you need to do at this stage.
- Activate the hair straightener. (230 Degrees)
- Separate the hair into 4-5 parts using a comb.
- Fasten each separated piece with pliers.
- Separate a thin pinch from the nape of the neck.
- Heat the section you separated from root to tip with a straightener 3-4 times.
- Apply this process to all your hair.
Things to Consider After Keratin Treatment
After keratin care, there are some tips you should pay attention to. Here are the things you should pay attention to after keratin care;
- After applying keratin treatment, you should not wash your hair for 3 days.
- You should not collect your hair with tools such as buckles or elastics to avoid leaving marks.
- The first time you wash your hair, you should rinse your hair intensively with water and then wash it with sulfate-free shampoo.
- After the keratin treatment, you should dry your hair from top to bottom so that there is no moisture left.
- You can dye your hair 15 days after keratin treatment.
FAQ About Keratin Care
Can I Go to the Pool or the Sea After Keratin Treatment?
After keratin treatment, you should protect your hair with something like a swim cap when going into the pool or the sea. Chlorinated and salty water can cause the keratin in our hair to dissolve and flow earlier.
Which Shampoos Should I Use After Keratin Treatment?
After keratin care, you should use sulfate-free and salt-free shampoos. Salt and sulfate may cause the keratin in the hair to dissolve earlier and make the treatment last shorter.
What are the Harms of Keratin Care?
Keratin care contains formaldehyde, which can harm our health if inhaled excessively during application. When performing keratin care, be careful to do it in an open environment.
If you apply more heat to your hair than necessary during keratin treatment and heat application with a straightener, you may damage your hair. It is not possible to apply the product at a high level for every hair.
For example; While applying keratin to highlighted and thin hair; We should adjust the temperature so that it does not exceed 180 degrees, and we should not go over the separated strands with a straightener more than 2 times.
Difference Between Keratin Treatment and Keratin Botox
The difference between keratin care and keratin botox is that keratin care gives a straightening effect to the hair, keratin botox is applied for care and moisturizing.
While keratin straightening is used for thick and frizzy hair, keratin botox care is applied for thin and dull hair.
Keratin Care Price
The average prices of sets sold for keratin care are between 150-350$, and the average price of keratin care you will receive from professionals in hairdressing salons is between 200-500$ TL.
Conclusion
In this article, we gave professional information about keratin care and its production. If you would like to make a keratin straightener at home, you can apply your own hair care at home according to the information on our page.
