Keratin treatment is a procedure which smoothens and shines curly hair, using chemicals.  Its results can last up to six months. Keratin treatments have several versions, but your hair stylist can always advise you, and customize a blended formula, which will suit whatever you need.

 Another version could release some chemicals such as the formaldehyde, during heating. However, there are new versions such as Manhattan among others, which are free of formaldehyde.

  These treatment menus will always go into the hair follicles and inject keratin the porous areas, whether there is the formaldehyde or not. This is on a fundamental level. After the protein is inserted, your hair will slowly start appearing healthy and shiny.

1. Walking Through The Process

 Depending on the formulae that your hair stylist uses, is how long the keratin treatment process will take.  The amount for hair ion your head, and its texture will also determine how long the treatment takes. It tends to take longer for people with more hair though.

 However, it is not anywhere past four hours.  First, your stylist will wash your hair, then apply the treatment on your wet hair, and allow it to penetrate the scalp and the strands.  After which she will wait for about an hour, for best penetration, and the blow-dries the hair and apply the treatment on it.

 The last step will be flat ironing, which will still depend on your hair stylist, just to seal the treatment.

2. Is It Different From Chemical Treatment?

Keratin treatments are different from chemical treatments. For the keratin, the procedure is only temporary and will be easily washed off, after a few months, whereas the chemical treatments are permanent. Another difference is that their ingredients are totally different, chemicals relaxers just break the structure of hair, and restructures it, to make the hair straight, but weak.

The keratin treatments inject the porous parts of your hair with proteins so that your hair feels smooth. Therefore, the results brought by these two are totally different.

 The keratin treatment makes your hair stronger, while the chemical treatment weakens the hair.  The chemical treatment use ingredients such as the sodium peroxide, lithium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide and guanidine hydroxide to produce those results.

 A few months after the keratin treatment, your hair will be back to normal, and it is even advanced to redo the process.

3. Can You Do This At Home?

Of course, yes you can do this at home, watching a step by step tutorial. However, you should not expect the salon results.  Only make sure that you buy correct products and in an exact amount.  Not all treatments with the word operation contain the keratin.  All the hairs are made using the keratin proteins, and therefore you should be very precise. 

For better home results, you should confirm with the list of products required for the process, and ensure you have everything if not all the things need.  Make sure you buy the strained silicon, and conditioning treatments, because many smoothing treatments contain them.    Make sure they also provide the instructions on how to wash off, straighten and dry your hair.

 In case they do not have, you can use the standard conditioning products, which may not be a keratin product. But all in all, the results will not be as good as the spa results.  The keratin treatment is done by a specialist last longer, for about six months. But yours may last for a short time.

 Is It Safe?

 It is advised to avoid the formaldehyde producing keratin since there are those that do not contain it. Formaldehyde is a carcinogen, and some may react when exposed to heat. To always use the you can opt to use formaldehyde-free treatments, as they may not be very useful and long lasting like the formaldehyde, all least they are safe.

 The Bottom Line

 Finally, we now have a full understanding of the keratin treatment.  You can always prefer this to the chemical treatment and blow dry.   If you love coloring your hair, you can also use keratin treatments without any adverse effects. Here at Knockout Virgin Hair, we offer the best keratin treatments. Contact us today to order some.