Details of the course:

• Salon Hygiene
• Dermatitis 
• Storage, handling, and using chemical products
• Disposal of waste 
• Dealing with spillages 
• Sustainable working practices 
• Environmental working conditions 
• Stylist posture and correct working conditions 
• Legislation relevant to hairdressing and barbering 
• Insurance
• Anatomy & physiology 
• Skin anatomy 
• Hair anatomy
• Hair types 
• Hair loss
• Hair characteristics and classifications 
• History of chemical straightening 
• Lye relaxers
• No lye relaxers 
• Brazilain keratin blow-dry 
• Art and science of texture and curl 
• Importance of pH in texture services
• States of matter 
• Physical and chemical changes 
• The pH scale 
• Acids and alkalis 
• Building blocks of hair, amino acids, peptide bonds, polypeptide chains, keratin proteins, side bonds, disulphide bonds, salt bonds, hydrogen bonds
• Chemical hair relaxing 
• Chemical hair relaxers 
• Neutralisers 
• Base or no base?
• Steps in chemical hair relaxing 
• Recommended strength of relaxer 
• Hair analysis 
• Hair history 
• Scalp examination 
• Strand tests, finger test and pull test
• Relaxer test
• Chemical processing with sodium hydroxide 
• Equipment and products needed
• Procedure for chemical relaxing, comb method, finger or brush method
• Periodic strand testing 
• Shampooing/neutralising 
• Conditioning 
• Sodium hydroxide retouch 
• Chemical hair relaxing process with ammonium thioglycate 
• Thio retouch 
• Chemical blow-out
• Procedure 
• Keratin straightening 
• What is keratin?
• What is methylene glycol?
• What is cysteine?
• What is formalin?
• Is formaldehyde safe?
• Formaldehyde in methylene glycol 
• Safety advice 
• Client consultation 
• Straightening coloured or highlighted hair 
• Virgin hair 
• Keratin procedure 
• Treatment aftercare 
• Contra-indications
• Client consultation form