Authentic Kardoune

This piece of orange fabric may not mean anything to you... but it does! The kardoune is an accessory that is virtually part of Algeria's heritage. A veritable beauty secret for Oriental women, the kardoune is now known the world over. It is now featured in numerous beauty tutorials by well-known female influencers.

As a result, demand for this heat-free hair straightening accessory is exploding! But be careful! To be effective, the kardoune must meet certain conditions.

Your Castor Oil online shop always chooses its products carefully. That's why we offer you authentic kardoune. The one and only!

The kardoune, a piece of cloth like no other

The kardoune is a strip of fabric from Algeria. Kabylia to be precise. This ancestral smoothing technique is a tradition handed down from mother to daughter in this country. Little by little, the authentic kardoune spread throughout the Maghreb and many other Eastern countries.

It's a ribbon of fairly supple but rather rough fabric. It's a very economical, ecological and totally natural technique that doesn't damage the hair. Quite the opposite, in fact. Your authentic kardoune will last almost indefinitely, as long as you take good care of it.

What are the benefits of kardoune?

Authentic kardoune has a number of benefits:

• It allows you to straighten your hair without a straightening iron, flat iron or other heat source;
• Kardoune protects your hair from being rubbed against your pillow at night;
• This hair accessory prevents knots and split ends;
• Hair is softer, smoother, suppler and shinier;
• It's a way to encourage hair growth.

Tip: Use your kardoune to leave your treatment in. We have many natural oils that are perfect for this, such ascoconut oil!

How do I use it?

It's a bit of a handful, but authentic kardoune is fairly simple to use:

1. Tie your hair up by making a low duvet on the side
2. Tie off one end of the kardoune, leaving 10cm of fabric hanging over it
3. Wrap the hair with the authentic kardoune until you've used up all the tape, ending up at the base of the duvet
4. Tie the remaining end of the ribbon to the 1st 10cm strip
5. Leave overnight then remove in the morning

Bonus: for a kardoune to suit your hair length, we offer several lengths of fabric!

- The 2.5 metre kardoune: for short hair (up to the shoulders)

- 5 metre kardoune: for medium to long hair

- The 10-metre kardoune: for long hair, very thick hair or curly hair with volume