By now, you must have heard of keratin therapy or keratin treatments. You step out after styling your hair at the salon; your hair's smooth and cooperative, but sooner than you know it, humidity, heat and time itself undos the effort in just one swift moment. It would feel like your hair is working against you when frizz creeps in and the shine your hair once held is gone. This is where imbibing a keratin hair care using keratin therapy products comes in.
What Keratin Actually Does for Hair
Keratin isn't a foreign addition to your hair. It is naturally present in your hair, but may have depleted with time. Hair is largely made of keratin protein, and daily wear, from heat styling, chemical treatments and environmental stress, gradually breaks it down. This is where keratin treatment becomes essential. It is an infusion that restores hair, maybe not how it was formerly, but to a place that is manageable, healthy and polished.
When you use keratin therapy products, you're replenishing lost protein in your hair from within. Some people may choose to go for a keratin treatment service once in 3 months and their hair is smoother, sleeker and frizz-free. If you consistently battle frizzy, unruly hair or your hair has gone through chemical treatment, then using keratin products after a keratin treatment is what your hair needs.
What happens is relatable science: keratin goes deep into the hair fibre and smoothens the rough patches on your cuticle. After this is done, your hair sits better, lays flatter, feels softer and resists damage more easily. Surprisingly, all hair types, whether wavy, straight or curly can benefit from keratin therapy.
Keratin Hair Treatment: What to Expect
Keratin treatment isn't magical, neither is it a mystery. The principle is simple, but knowing what to expect at the salon or during your at-home keratin treatment session before you go (to the salon) or begin (at home) could be helpful. Although the experience may differ from salon to salon, the process is pretty much the same.
Essentially, your stylist would coat your hair in keratin using a keratin treatment kit and then seal it with heat. The process is a bit more elaborate than this though, but now you know what to expect. Keratin treatment can take up to 4 hours, which is very dependent on your hair texture, length, and how much damage control the keratin would be doing.
Before You Sit on That Salon Chair
Salon services are very professional and quality, and while that holds true, two truths can coexist. Many home users are finding keratin treatment at home experience easier and funnier too. Before you book a salon appointment, you would have to first:
Do an Initial Consultation With Your Stylist
Your stylist will assess your hair type and its condition and choose the right formula for you. GK Hair The Best Keratin Hair Treatment has made its way to numerous salon shelves today and for a personalised lived-in experience, you can trust it.
Wash Your Hair
Don't go to the salon for a keratin treatment with dirty or wet hair. Ensure to wash your hair days ahead of your keratin appointment. A clarifying wash using GK Hair pH Shampoo is a great place to start. It prepares your hair and opens the cuticle for the treatment you're about to have to penetrate deeply.
Consider an at Home Keratin Treatment
Not every great keratin experience happens in the salon. Someone may have a keratin therapy done in the salon and leave with bad results. It's really not about where it was done but who's doing it. A keratin treatment kit that's designed for home users can offer noticeable results that's almost not distinguishable from one done in the salon.
Keratin treatment products used in salons may last longer (up to several months) using higher concentration formulas, but at-home kits are best suited for frizz reduction and shine. They're also worthwhile for maintaining results in between salon visits.
Does Keratin Treatment Cause Hair Loss?
A number of people have been asking this question more recently. It's probably because they experienced hair loss during or after their keratin treatment. For one, the treatment itself doesn't cause hair loss. You're likely experiencing a keratin treatment hair loss because your hair went through excess heat during sealing.
One of the don'ts in hair care for keratin treated hair is to not overprocess already fragile hair. You should not do more than one keratin treatment within a month. That would be you overprocessing your hair with keratin. Instead, use keratin therapy products from the GK Hair Product Collection. They are a better option because instead of an actual keratin treatment with high concentration of protein, they contain Juvexin in small quantities and strengthens the hair.
Most importantly, following usage guidelines on the label of your product matters in ensuring that you get the desired results rather than damaging your hair further.
Who Should Do a Keratin Treatment or Therapy?
Keratin treatment is ideal for anyone whose hair is frizz prone, unruly and textured, dull, chemically treated or damaged. If you're having a hard time styling your hair or your hair care routine feels like a chore, your hair needs a keratin hair treatment reset. In humid places, keratin makes it easier to care for your hair.
Frizz Prone Hair
The struggle with frizz is very real especially when humidity is high. Your hair puffs up when it catches a whiff of moisture in the air. Keratin treatment is the quick and real solution to frizzy hair. That smooth, straight look you've always wanted and the confidence frizz has stolen from you is easily restored with keratin infusion.
Curly and Wavy Hair
Very peculiar with curly and wavy hair is loss of definition, unruly strands, frizz and lacklustre curls. We know the struggles. A keratin treatment is not only for straight hair and as earlier mentioned, you don't lose your curls after a keratin treatment. In fact, after a keratin treatment, you have curls that are better behaved, sleek, smooth and lustrous after than before.
Coloured and Chemically Treated Hair
If your hair has gone through a chemical procedure, hear this: chemicals may have changed your hair so much that it now feels like straw - dry, rough and brittle; but keratin is the saviour. You'll notice that no matter how much you use a deep conditioner, your hair still feels dry. It is as a result of the chemicals. They took the shine and glossiness your hair used to radiate.
Your first quick solution is a keratin treatment, then you could maintain it using keratin infused products like GK Hair Leave-In Conditioner Cream. However, you shouldn't do keratin therapy immediately after any dyeing or perming procedure. Wait at least 2 to 3 weeks before indulging in any new treatment.
What to Do After a Keratin Treatment
Well, you could choose to do nothing but enjoy the sleekness after your treatment is done. However, that won’t last for long. Aside from the fact that keratin treatments are quite expensive, they're also time consuming. No one has 4 hours to commit freely at the salon, when easy post keratin hair care can be done right from their shower.
Choose Sulphate Free Products
First things first, sulphates shouldn't find their place in any of your hair care products. They can strip oils and keratin, and damage the structure of your hair. A shampoo like GK Hair Moisturizing Shampoo is a good investment after a keratin treatment or any treatment at all.
Alternate Protein Treatments With Deep Moisture
Your hair doesn't need another keratin treatment at the slightest hint of frizz, flyaways or dullness. Sometimes, deep moisture from your GK Hair Deep Conditioner is all your hair is craving. Consistent exposure to keratin and heat (from sealing) can destroy the inner and outer layer of the hair cuticle too.
Protect Your Hair
A keratin treated hair needs protection to keep the protein intact. During heat styling, ensure to use heat protectants and don't forget to buy an ionic blow dryer like GK Hair Ion Pro Blow Dryer that can reduce heat temperature up to very low settings effectively.
Incorporate Other Specialised Hair Products
On some other days, your hair could use a serum or a cream. In addition to getting yourself a quality colour-protecting moisturising shampoo and conditioner, purchase other Anti Frizz and Shine Products from GK Hair and enjoy sleek, smooth and shiny hair after styling!
GK Hair: The Best Hair Line You Can Trust
A keratin treatment can either make or mar your hair. Who did it is just as important as which product was used. Not all keratin treatments that promise smooth and frizz free hair actually delivers it. Some of the ones that do may leave your hair in another damage like hair loss we talked about earlier.
One surefire way of choosing the best keratin therapy products is by purchasing from a reliable source. Thanks to our animal free, plant based, alcohol free, and Juvexin infused products, your hair's back like never before. If you're not sure of the state of your hair, then take a personalised hair quiz!
