
ASCP, ISPA and PBA Receive 2026 Power of Associations Award for Esthetics Licensure Compact
This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.
Keune Haircosmetics' Bond Fusion is a three-phase bond-building system that restores, builds and protects bonds, as it continuously treats and conditions chemically damaged hair to keep it strong, shiny and healthy.

Bond Fusion by Keune Haircosmetics North America is a three-phase bond-building system that restores, builds and protects bonds, as it continuously treats and conditions chemically damaged hair to keep it strong, shiny and healthy.
As a result, the hair comes out of the color treatment strong, with its integrity intact.
In addition, Bond Fusion helps to preserve the hair during perming and straightening services, and can be used on its own as a damage-repairing treatment.
How it works: The most popular salon services like hair color and texturizing treatments break down disulfide bonds, which are essential for strong, resilient, healthy hair. Bond Fusion repairs and rebuilds broken bonds, and even creates new ones, as it protects the inner structure of each strand, restoring and maintaining the hair’s integrity.
• Phase 1: Keune Bond Builder repairs broken bonds, creates new bonds and protects the inner structure of the hair with Keune’s exclusive Protein Fusion System. Two types of hair-identical proteins rebuild and strengthen, while reducing breakage and restoring elasticity, resulting in stronger, more flexible and better-conditioned hair. Simply add Bond Builder to your color or lifting mixture as directed.
• Phase 2: Enhance in the salon. Keune Bond Enhancer is a deeply nourishing and restorative treatment that strengthens and seals the bonds in each individual strand to ensure that hair stays in the best condition for as long as possible. After rinsing the color, apply Bond Enhancer from roots to end, leave in for at least 5 minutes, then rinse thoroughly.
• Phase 3: Recharge at home. This nourishing maintenance product for use by clients for just a few minutes every five days at home prolongs the continuous results of the Bond Fusion salon treatment.
Bond Fusion requires no special reformulating or extra processing time. It’s specially designed to work beautifully with Keune’s permanent hair color lines and lifting products. It can also be used with any other color brand. Bond Fusion is free of sulfates and parabens.
For more information, visit keune.com.



This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.

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