Is your hair frizzy, static, damaged and brittle? Keratin smoothing treatment is made for you. It instantly enhances your hair appearance and condition. Still, it doesn’t mean you can give up on the daily hair care routine. How to care for hair after the keratin treatment?
The right hair care routine after getting a keratin treatment is an easy way to enjoy the effects longer. The procedure leaves the hair stronger, healthier, silky smooth, shiny and soft. Do your best to keep it as long as possible.
Within 2-3 days after the treatment:
• you can’t wash your hair,
• you shouldn’t pin hair up,
• you shouldn’t tuck the hair behind your ears,
• you can’t bend or deform the hair,
• you shouldn’t wet your hair.
All of these rules stand just until the first wash routine. Avoiding creases in hair is the key thing. Keratin stays in for 3-6 months but you can extend the effects. To enjoy healthy and beautiful hair the longest possible, pay attention to two goals:
1. A permanent delivery of small quantities of keratin.
2. Reducing the loss of the keratin.
How to deliver keratin to your hair?
It’s protein so don’t apply too much, avoiding over-proteined hair. Adding keratin-enriched products (or mixing pure keratin with a fave mask or conditioner) to the hair care routine is the best way. Always test such products to check if there isn’t too much keratin. If a product leaves your hair frizzy and brittle, try a different one.
How to keep keratin from rinsing out?
Reducing the loss of keratin is extremely important, too. The key thing is avoiding products which contain silicones (except for the ones that are easy to remove with a mild shampoo), strong detergents, salts and alcohols. All of these ingredients rinse keratin out of hair. Let’s replace them with hair-protecting products e.g. oils.
Should you apply hair oils after getting a keratin treatment?
Go ahead! Fatty acids, included in natural oils, strengthen the natural hydro-lipid barrier and the external coat of cuticle scales. In this way, hair’s protected, loses moisture more slowly and keeps the keratin delivered during the treatment. Which oils are going to work?
Oils, which are natural and free of artificial additives, are the best for protecting the hair after the keratin smoothing treatment. Oil treatment brings most benefits when you apply unrefined and cold-pressed oils e.g. coconut or argan oil. Obviously, you can go for ready-made hair oils, remembering they should be free of alcohols, silicones, detergents yet be full of natural oils and vegetable extracts.
