Save Money by Doing Your Keratin Treatment at Home

Today, I’m sharing how to use a keratin treatment kit at home. It’s effective and helps me grow my hair longer too! Save yourself a trip to the salon and let’s treat our hair at home!

Tools and materials: 

• Keratin kit: clarifying shampoo, keratin product, bowl and brush
• Gloves
• Hair dryer
• Hair brush
• Hair clips or hair ties
• Fine tooth comb
• Fan
• Flat iron

The keratin treatment kit I’m using comes with 2 essential products: a strong, clarifying shampoo and the keratin product.

1:.Wash your hair with clarifying shampoo

Remove any products and natural build-up using the clarifying shampoo from the keratin treatment kit.

This step is essential since any build-up could block the keratin from penetrating the hair shaft.

Don’t apply conditioner after using this shampoo!

2. Dry your hair

Blow dry your hair completely by sectioning it off and using a brush.

3. Apply the keratin

Always wear protective gloves when applying keratin and wash your brushes afterward. Keep a window open in the room where you’re doing your at home keratin treatment for circulation. Squeeze the keratin into the bowl. 

Pick up a small amount of the keratin on the kit brush. 

Paint the keratin on the section of hair, starting from about 4” from the root and moving down toward the ends.

Then use a fine tooth comb to comb it through, spreading the keratin.

Paint on more keratin toward the ends if necessary and comb it through. 

Repeat for the rest of the hair that’s down. Then work on the top section of hair in the same way.

4. Dry your hair again

Turn on a fan in the room to promote air ventilation. The fumes from the chemicals can get strong. 

Then dry your hair again. 

5. Seal in the keratin with a flat iron

Use a flat iron to seal in the keratin in sections. You’ll need to do about 5-7 passes over each section of hair to get it straight. 

As weird as this feels (gross and crispy!) just trust the process. It’s even beneficial to keep your hair like this for a day or 2 for best results.

So, if you want your hair to look great for an event, definitely be sure to leave enough days beforehand for lasting results. 

Over the course of the next day or so, before you’re ready to wash out the keratin, your hair might get partially wet (if you wash your face, for example). In this case, just use the flat iron on that section again.

6. Wait, wash and straighten

I waited 2.5 days before washing my hair. Then I straightened it without the crispy keratin in it and this is the result:

On the left is before, when I’d just applied the keratin and straightened the hair. The right side shows the comparison after removing the keratin and re-straightening. 

The best thing about this at home keratin treatment is that afterward, it takes hardly any time to style my hair from then on.

I do this at home keratin treatment once a year and I can count on this to last about 6 months!

This is what my hair would look like when humid, without the keratin treatment but after blow drying it:

Here’s the same hair after the keratin treatment and styling:

How to do a keratin treatment kit at home

Now that you’ve learned how to do an at home keratin treatment, will you try this yourself? Comment down below.

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