A gentler, more manageable approach to taming your curls and frizz than relaxing. Keratin 4 + Aloe breakthrough chemistry offers lasting versatility, giving you the KERATIN POWER to choose whether you want to wear hair styled straight or “wash & go” manageable curls after one use! Transforms hair with up to 5X less damage than relaxers and *lasts up to 6 weeks on treated growth (or 5 washes)! This treatment is a gentle, semi-permanent taming product that won’t damage hair structure by breaking hair bonds the way other permanent chemical treatments do, and will have a gradual and cumulative effect the more you use it! Great for root touch ups (not a root straightener) or taming in between relaxer use.

 Product Ingredients:

Protein smoothing treatment ingredients: water, cysteine HCL, ethanolamine, sodium bicarbonate, urea, hydroxyethylcelluse, ethanolamine thioglycolate, ppg 1 peg 9 lauryl glycol ether, decyl glucoside, hydrolyzed wheat protein, hydrolyzed keratin, aloe barbadensis leaf extract, propylene glycol, etidronic acid, polyquaternium 7, hydrolyzed silk, fragrance.

Neutralizing milk ingredients: water, cetearyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, etidronic acid, dimethicone, polyquaternium 37, ceteareth 30, cetrimonium chloride, sodium hydroxide, propylene glycol dicaprylate/dicaprate, dimethicone, hydroxycetyl hydroxyethyl dimonium chloride, 2,6 dicarboxypyridine, ppg 1 trideceth 6.

Kit Includes:

1 Application
2 No mix steps
If you have long or very thick hair, 2 kits may be necessary for one application
With up to 5X less damage than relaxers

Step 1: Protein smoothing treatment, with a breakthrough chemistry of Keratin 4 + Aloe that smoothes and tames the hair while making styling more manageable and versatile!
Neutralize

Step 2: Neutralizing Milk, containing active sealers to complete and preserve the semi-permanent taming effect on treated hair for up 6 weeks (or 5 washes)!
Style

 Claims

• Lasting versatility after 1 use without relaxing
• Easy to style to straight look
• “Wash & go” manageable curls
• Results last up to 6 weeks
• Proven suitable to use on previously relaxed hair

Ok so I bleached my hair last summer and it has been breaking off and shedding ever since. I’ve tried treatments and everything to keep it from breaking off and avoid cutting it but nothing was working. I also stopped relaxing my hair; I am not joining team natural but I just wanted try other ways to straighten my hair.

Keratin and Brazilian treatments have been hot lately so I wanted to give it a try. Most in-home & salon Keratin treatments require washing the hair, applying treatment then flat ironing hair, washing your hair again, and blow drying and flat ironing again. Sounds like a lot of time and work huh? Plus those treatments will run you a few hundred dollars while lasting 2-3 months.  Hell for those prices I could buy someone else’s  straight hair and sew it in.

So when I got the chance to try Smooth ‘N Shine Keratin Power Kit and saw it was only 2 steps I jumped on it to see if keratin might be the route for me. It was very simple and quick to use. I was about 10 weeks post relaxer when I used this so I had about 2 inches of new growth. The treatment didn’t straighten my roots (it’s not marketed for that) but it did relax them some. I immediately noticed before and after blow drying when I combed my hair out there was little to no shedding. While before I used Keratin Power there was tons of shedding.  I normally wash my hair every two weeks and by then my hair is very dry. After I used this my hair felt soft throughout the whole two weeks.  So even though I didn’t get the straightening factor I wanted I was sold on the repair.

If you are natural and/or against chemical treatments then you might want to give Smooth ‘N Shine Keratin Power a try. If you want something that gives you the same results as a relaxer this isn’t for you. You can use it in-between relaxers if you want for a little freshen up. Smooth ‘N Shine Keratin Power Kit doesn’t claim to replace relaxers but help make your hair more manageable and that’s exactly what it did. It definitely made blow drying, straightening and keep up easier. I can see myself buying this but I will also be looking for an affordable in-home keratin treatment that straightens also.

Price: around $10 

Available: Drugstores

Company Links: Website

Disclosure: I received this product as apart of the Bzzagent program. I will always give my honest opinions on every post. Feel free to view my disclosure or contact me.