Keratinize Leave-in Conditioner – Soft, Hydrated Hair All Day LongHydrationDetanglingSoft & Frizz-Free hair all dayHydrationDetanglingSoft & Frizz-Free hair all day

Keratinize Leave-in Conditioner – Soft, Hydrated Hair All Day Long
HydrationDetanglingSoft & Frizz-Free hair all day
HydrationDetanglingSoft & Frizz-Free hair all day

Everyone desires soft, beautiful, and lustrous hair with a natural texture, body, and volume. The big question is, how can we achieve it? The answer lies in programming a suitable and compatible hair care routine. This schedule and well-crafted hair care routine require high-quality and multi-functional products. Leave-in conditioner is perhaps the most important among all products in a hair care regimen. The obvious reason is the nature of its formulation and mode of application.

A conditioner is designed to condition hair and improve its overall health and outlook. Rinse-off conditioner is the most common hair conditioning product consumers use. It has a very limited time of contact with the hair. It is applied while in the shower and rinsed off after 2-5 minutes. This may not be enough for a day-long conditioning and protection against environmental conditions, as hair is exposed to dry, wet, and humid conditions daily, particularly during outdoor time.

A leave-in conditioner is essential to address these concerns and provide day-long conditioning, along with protecting it against outdoor environmental insults.

How to choose a leave-in conditioner? And where to find it quality leave-in conditioner?

This blog introduces Keratinize Leave-in Conditioner, a new product in the Keratinize line, a gentle, lightly textured, creamy lotion ideal for a leave-in application. Let’s go through its science, formulation, key ingredients, and how to get the maximum out of its application.

Keratinize Leave-in Conditioner: Salient Features

Keratinize leave-in conditioner is a specially formulated product with a light, creamy texture that makes it easy to apply and work out on each hair strand. The product offers a wide range of benefits to hair, as listed here

◉ Hydrates hair with potent hydrating agents
◉ Address serious dryness and lifeless hair
◉ Removes the tangles
◉ Provides an ease of combing, styling & manageability
◉ Reduces static charge density to control flyaway
◉ Make hair soft with an amazing sensorial feel
◉ Lustrous hair with immense shine
◉ Minimize split ends
◉ Prevents hair breakage
◉ h2Frizz control, get rid of dull and deep casting

Ingredients

Water, Behentrimonium Methosulfate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Mel (Honey) Extract, Saccharum Officinarum (Sugar Cane) Extract, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, Turbinado Brown Sucrose, Trideceth – 12, Lactic acid, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium sorbate. Fragrance, EDTA Disodium.

Behentrimonium Methosulfate

It is a cationic hair softening agent carrying a long hydrophobic carbon tail that provides conditioning, detangling, and softness. It attaches to the negatively charged sites of keratin amino acids via electrostatic chemical bonding and withstands washing, providing excellent conditioning. Countering the negative charge density also minimizes the flyaway problem.

Turbinado Brown Sucrose

Turbinado Brown Sucrose is a natural brown sugar component commonly used in beverages, food, and cosmetics. It is an amazing hydrating agent because of multiple water-binding sites on sugar molecules. Due to its organic nature and polymeric polysaccharide molecules, it binds, holds, and delivers water molecules to the scalp and hair fibre even at low humidity levels. It also gives a pleasant odour and aesthetic feel to the leave-in formulation.

Lactic acid

Milk-derived alpha-hydroxy acid is known for its superior hydrating benefits to skin and hair, Lactic acid is the key player in building the required pH level as well as binding water molecules to the hair.

Coconut Oil

An excellent natural emollient with multifunctional benefits to hair and scalp, coconut oil is a rich source of fatty acids. Its medium-range carbon chain, mainly comprising lauric acid, provides a very delicate lubrication to the hair shaft. This shorter chain acid penetrates the hair shaft and also improves overall fibre tactile properties.

Shea Butter

Shea butter is a time-honored hair and skin conditioning agent with its special buttery texture offering a unique sensorial feel to the formulation. It is rich in saturated fatty acids that lubricate the hair surface, and also imparts a vibrant, shiny outlook.

Hydrolyzed Keratin

Hydrolyzed keratin is a fiber-strengthening and deep conditioning agent that repairs the broken site, targeting the strong protein-to-protein adhesion. A right molecular weight keratin peptide sticks to the amino acid sites at the surface or deep inside the cortex via a weak covalent bond to make up for the lost protein of hair. This mechanism leads to a rapid recovery and restoration of hair’s mechanical strength. This also works greatly to smooth the cuticle surface, enhancing the water binding (due to increased hydrophilicity) and boosting overall hair shine.

Hydrating Natural Extracts

Leave-in conditioner formulation also features Honey Extract, Green Apple Extract, and Sugar Cane Extracts. These three ingredients are hydrosols (solutions in water) selected due to their high fruit acid content, anti-oxidants, and sugar contents. These ingredients boost the hydrating benefits to hair and scalp and offer a soothing effect. Flavonoids and polyphenols work as natural antioxidants, mitigating any potential free radical-induced damage to hair and scalp.

How to use it?

Apply a generous amount of product to your wet or dry hair. Work it out to get the product to each hair strand.

What type of hair should use this product?

All types of hair, any ethnic background, equally good for virgin low-porosity hair to dry & damaged high-porosity hair. Does not cause any heaviness, any greasy feel, or leave any oil residues.

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Practical Manual for Using Thermal Styling Equipment
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Blow Dryer, Curling Rods & Flat Irons

Thermal styling is popular among consumers as a method to redefine their hairstyles. It provides excellent hair alignment with a defined curl pattern and sets the hair for a brief period. Electric devices deliver heat energy within a temperature range of 140 °c to 220 °c. In previous blogs, we noted that this heat energy can significantly damage the keratin in hair fibers. Managing this damage is crucial to preserving the integrity of hair and maintaining its natural texture, shine, and appearance.

This can only be achieved by correctly using heated equipment at the appropriate temperature, with pre-heat protection applied to the hair. Educating consumers and hair stylists on how to use this thermal equipment effectively is essential. This blog offers a practical manual for using a blow dryer, curling rod, and flat iron. Important questions are answered, including when to use these tools, how to use them, and how to ensure our hair’s health by minimizing the adverse effects of heat energy. How can we maintain a beautiful appearance after applying heat?

Familiarize yourself with the equipment.

Three types of equipment are commonly used for thermal styling

Blow Dryer – used to dry hair with hot air blowing in the temperature range of 60 oC – 70 oC. The objective is to dry out hair and remove moisture after the washing.

Curling Rod – A ceramic or metal rod that contains an electric filament for heating. The temperature ranges from 140 °c to 200 °c. A section of hair strands is inserted into the opening of the curling rod, and heat is applied for 1-3 minutes.  This shapes the hair fibres into a circular pattern, transforming straight hair into curls. The heat setting maintains the curl for a short time; however, when washed, the hair returns to its original style.

Flat Iron – A ceramic or metallic flat plate, hair is placed in between the plates and heated. The temperature ranges from 150 oC to 240 oC. The process is repeated multiple times to straighten curly hair and is set in a Bone-straight shape removing any curls.

Things to do before using thermal equipment

◉ Read through the manual & usage instructions for your blow dryer, curling rod or flat iron machine
◉ Check the temperature control and its functioning Wash hair and scalp Blot out excess water using a towel gently.
◉ Apply a combing lotion or preferably heat-protecting lotion
◉ Dry them using a blow dryer at a normal temperature
◉ Comb your hair gently
◉ Remove any knots and tangles
◉ Divide the whole scalp area into small sections
◉ You are ready for Curling Rod or Flat ironing

Things to avoid

Heat application without proper assessment of hair porosity and overall condition
Never do thermal styling on wet hair Expose hair fibers to heat without adequate protection. Use high temperature all in one go, slowly raise the temperature, use a gradient increase

Wet or Dry Hair: What to do?

Never do it on wet hair! Heating wet hair may intensify the extent of damage.

Hair adsorbs water molecules during washing and gains weight. Wet hair also has a higher diameter compared to dry hair due to longitudinal and lateral swelling. Applying heat generates steam in a localized position underneath the cuticle layer. This can be seen as a bumps or bubble formation under the microscope.

As a result, the surface becomes rough reducing the surface smoothness. It makes it difficult to comb and get rid of tangles. That’s why, it is not recommended to use a blow dryer, curling rod or flat iron on wet hair.

Pre-Heat Protection is Essential: Never Miss it Out

Applying a heat-protecting product is vital before using any sort of thermal styling technique. One should never do thermal styling without protection against heat energy. A good quality heat-protecting formulation must contain thermally stable ingredients that can withstand excessive and repeated exposure to heat. How to Treat Heat-Damaged Hair Functional silicones and some natural emollients can tolerate this heat. These ingredients have a high smoke point and do not degrade under the heat.

What temperature to go?

The answer to this question needs a careful assessment of the hair fiber texture and its porosity level. A correlation has been proposed here as a basic guideline for users.

◉ Assessing Hair Texture
◉ Fine Asian hair – Low to moderate temperature
◉ Medium Asian coarse – Moderate temperature
◉ Thick Asian Straight – Moderate to high temperature
◉ Assessing the Porosity level
◉ Low Porosity Virgin hair – Moderate to high temperature
◉ Medium Porosity Hair – Moderate to high temperature
◉ High Porosity Chemically processed – Low temperature
◉ Final Words & Tips

Thermal styling is a great approach to redefining your hairstyle, however, it requires some considerations before exposing hair to heat.

Make an assessment of your hair, its condition, level of dryness and porosity to assert potential heat-induced damage.

Avoid over-application of heat processing. Never do thermal styling on an everyday basis. It’s only once in a while to go.

Always do a trial test on a small section of hair before full head application of any new hair care routine.

Start with a low-temperature point and go slowly to a higher temperature level slowly increasing the heat.

During the week or so, follow up with a deep hydrating mask to mitigate heat damage to hair. This would restore the natural hair texture and regain its natural shine.

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