Re-bonding vs Smoothing vs Keratin Hair Treatment : Know The Differences

Wondering how to get rid of straightening your hair everyday with your heating tool! The answer must be here in this hair treatment article.

Natural hair look beautiful but they require more time and effort to style and maintain. We desire a remedy to quickly style our hair before heading out of our house.

All of us have heard about the chemical treatments to straighten our hair temporarily. According to our hair type, we all get confused in deciding which treatment should you opt for.

Don’t worry, we will provide you every key difference you must know about re-bonding, smoothing and keratin before opting any of these.

Re-bonding Hair Treatment

Re-bonding is a special technique of straightening your hair using heavy chemical compounds. The technique of re-bonding is to break the natural hair fibres and then, new fibres are made using chemicals.

Suitability

This process is suitable for those who wish/ desire to have pin straight hair opposed to curly or wavy hair.

Duration

Re-bonding treatment with post care lasts long up to 1 year.

Pros

  • The results of re-bonding lasts more longer than both the treatments i.e. smoothing and keratin.
  • Saves time in styling your hair before going out.
  • This treatment straighten almost 90%  of your hair which gives  a shiny pin straight look.

Cons

  • Regular care and spa is required to maintain the quality of the hair or else it would damage your hair in a great extent.
  • Heavy chemicals are put on your hair which takes away the natural shine of the hair.
  • Hair Fall is the basic issue post treatment. Applying oil on regular basis would definitely work well in controlling hair fall.

Smoothing Hair Treatment

Most recommendable treatment by experts is smoothing treatment. It is a chemical process that involves smoothing the hair with a solution, which is then let it dry and lock the hair in a straight position using a flat iron.

Suitability

This process or treatment is suitable for women, who desire to get a natural straight look.

Duration

Smoothing treatment lasts long up to 3-4 months or even more if proper care is taken after chemical based process.

Pros

  • 60-80% of your hair gets straight after having this treatment.
  • In smoothing process, less chemicals are being used and less damage is caused to your hair.
  • Smoothing makes your hair styling more easy and quick.

Cons

• Hair fall is the major issue caused after the treatment so, you need to take care of your hair properly.

• Not every strand of your hair gets straighten by this process.

Keratin Hair Treatment

A Keratin treatment is a process of making your hair frizz free through chemicals. Keratin treatment provides protein to strengthen your hair and thus, preventing your hair from breakage, and dullness.

Suitability

This process is suitable if your key motive is to get rid of frizzy hair, not to straighten them.

Duration

The keratin treatment’s results lasts long up to 6 months.

Pros

• Dealing with frizzy hair will be now easy.

• Prevents dullness and bring back the natural shine to your hair.

Cons

• Only 20-30% of your hair is straighten through this  process.

• This process is more costly than compared to other treatment mentioned above.

Bottom line

All these treatments produce same results – straight and frizz free hair but many factors is dependent on which type of treatment your hair needs. The factors include the cost of treatment, chemicals used in the treatments, the motive according to your hair type and many more.
At last, the most recommendable treatment would be smoothing. Because, it suits almost all hair type and gives a natural look.

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