Keratin Hair Straightening Benefits

Keratin is a naturally-occurring protein found in hair and nails. To use it for treatments, stylists utilize heat to seal it into your strands.

This smoothing treatment also helps reduce humidity, making styling your hair simpler by shortening blow-dry time, while adding a lustrous shine to wavy or curly locks.

Reduces Breakage

Keratin treatments are promoted as the ultimate smoothing solution, promising silky locks that defy frizz and decrease blow-dry time. But this process may actually damage strands over time by leading to split ends, breakage, and high porosity levels (meaning your strands can’t retain moisture).

Salon treatments of keratin can contain harmful chemicals like formaldehyde and ammonium thioglycolate, along with heat to seal in the keratin, further damaging hair. Due to these risks, it’s wise to limit keratin treatments only if your hair can withstand high heat for sealing in. And even then, try and limit their frequency three times annually on clean, dry scalps only; salty or chlorinated water can shorten its lifecycle significantly.

Strengthens Hair

Replenishing lost keratin through a keratin treatment can help your hair become stronger and less susceptible to breakage, and could even make your locks appear thicker!

Keratin treatments typically contain formaldehyde, an ingredient recognized as carcinogenic. However, stylists can opt for newer formulations which contain much lower concentrations of formaldehyde – and thus provide safer treatments to their strands.

Ought to be used only on stick-straight hair, keratin hair straightening can actually transform any curly or wavy locks as well, leaving smoother waves or curls which are easier to style and save you time by detangling more efficiently. Some products even reduce frizziness to produce softened locks with smoother textures for easier styling than tangled locks – saving both time and effort on detangling!

Reduces Frizz

Keratin treats cells that overlap to form hair strands, helping reduce frizz and flyaways while leaving your locks softer, smoother, suppler, with an improved glossy sheen. Results typically last six months depending on your stylist and treatment chosen – depending on which treatments they recommend for you, however.

Traditional Keratin Smoothing Services involve your stylist beginning by clarifying your locks to remove residue that could prevent the formula from penetrating your strands, followed by applying and heat sealing the product with a flat iron.

Fitzsimons advises enquiring with your salon if they offer non-toxic keratin treatments with less formaldehyde and more glyoxylic acid to break down bonds of hair cuticle and then reseal in an improved position – these won’t drastically straighten your locks, but may help manage frizz and flyaways more easily.

Reduces Drying Time

Keratin treatment is a semi-permanent smoothing technique designed to eliminate frizz, increase shine and cut blow-drying time in half. Lasting for six months on average, it’s ideal for anyone wanting to save both time and effort when styling their hair.

Stylists typically shampoo hair twice with clarifying shampoo to ensure it is thoroughly cleansed before applying keratin solution, either with formaldehyde or more commonly, glyoxylic acid. After applying this chemical solution, stylists then flat iron in small sections in order to set it into place and keep any flaking from occurring.

Once applied, keratin fills any pores in your strands and helps eliminate humidity-induced frizz. Unfortunately, it remains vulnerable to heat and chemical treatments, so it’s essential that post-care instructions (using only sulfate-free products and avoiding excess heat) be observed if results from treatment are to last as intended.

Reduces Humidity

Keratin, a naturally-occurring protein found in hair and nails, is an integral component of smoothing treatments used to create silky and healthier-looking locks. While permanent straightening could permanently straighten hair permanently, Keratin smoothing only closes pores in your strands while decreasing porosity – creating silky locks without damage to them or permanently changing their structure.

Traditional salon keratin treatments typically utilize formaldehyde, which is known to cause cancer, but there are now safer formulas that use less-toxic ingredients that release less formaldehyde into the atmosphere. If this concerns you, ask your stylist for safe alternatives to help lower formaldehyde emissions.

Your stylist will apply a keratin treatment to freshly washed, dry hair in small sections before sealing it with a flat iron to achieve amazing smooth and frizz-free locks that may last up to six months. Furthermore, this process also helps strengthen and condition your locks by making them resistant to humidity – helping your locks appear healthier!