Because keratin contains very sable secondary structures of amino acids..... I referred to this paper (Kakkar et al. SpringerPlus 2014, 3:596) and I think this would be really helpful.
The first step of extraction is defatting i.e. removal of fats
from the raw material. Soxhlet’s apparatus was used to
carry out defatting/delipidization of pulverized hoof sample
for about two days. Mixture of hexane and dichloromethane
(1:1, v/v) was used for refluxing. Ten gram of
defatted hoof sample was mixed with 7 M urea, 6 g SDS
and 15 ml of 2-mercaptoethanol in a 300 mL roundbottom
flask and kept in orbital shaker at 60°C for 12 h to
extract keratin at pH 7. The resulting solution was then
centrifuged for 15 mins at 6,000 rpm and the supernatant
was dialyzed against degassed water for 5–6 days. Some of
the extracted keratin was kept in a deep freezer at −80°C
for 5 h and lyophilized to make it into powder. Hereafter,
the dialyzed keratin i.e. prior to lyophilization will be mentioned
I recommend the “Shindai method” to extract proteins from mammalian hair. This method delivers a high yield of solubilized proteins by using thiourea (2.6 M) and urea (5 M). The solubilized proteins consisted of keratin and KAPs.