How Much is 1 Part Bleach to 2 Parts Developer?

woman think before bleaching her hair

To prepare the product to bleach your hair, you should use 1 part bleach to 2 parts of the developer.
This means that if you use 100 grams of bleach, you should use 200 grams of the developer.
And if you use 50 grams of bleach, you should use 100 grams of the developer.
Therefore, you always use twice as much developer as bleach.
Also, keep in mind that you must use the same measuring element to control the exact amount of bleach and developer.
I’ll tell you the professional proportions I use to prepare the bleach according to the length of the hair.

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Are you about to prepare the bleach, and you don’t know what it means to mix 1 part bleach to 2 parts developer?

It means that you should use twice the developer as bleach.

And to measure the right proportions, you need a measuring device.

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In this case, it isn’t valid to use approximate measures. This doesn’t exist in colorimetry.

And the same thing happens when you bake a cake.

Have you seen the TV show, “Masterchef?”

If you never saw it, you missed a great show when the judges challenge the contestants with very harsh words for not measuring “with absolute accuracy” the proportions of the ingredients.

I understand that’s a show. But as a professional, I understand the judges.

If you want a cake to be perfect, the proportions of egg, flour, and other ingredients must be exact. Otherwise, the results won’t be as expected.

The same thing happens with bleach. If the proportions of the bleach aren’t right, you won’t be able to lighten your hair.

But you can also ruin your hair.

If a cake is not as expected, you can throw it away. However, if your hair is ruined by bad bleach, you’ll have to cut it off.

But, cheer up, it’s just a matter of understanding the exact proportions of the bleach. And that’s what I’ll talk about next.

How to calculate 1 part of bleach to 2 parts of a developer?

tablespoon of bleaching powder
Let’s start at the beginning. The most important thing is to gather all the materials to prepare the bleaching mixture. Of course, the developer and the bleaching agent mustn’t be missing.

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But you can’t miss the measuring element to measure the quantities.

You can use the measuring device included in the professional plastic container, which is sold in any store, or other elements such as baking spoons.

Have you got everything?

That’s fine. Before measuring the amounts, I remind you that bleaching is a very aggressive chemical process for the hair. Imagine to what extent you could damage your hair if you made a mistake in the ratio of developer to bleach.

The developer has a creamy consistency to hydrate the hair during the process. The bleach removes large amounts of water molecules from the hair during bleaching.

If you put less developer and more bleach when you prepare the mixture, the resulting product would be to hard to distribute to your hair.
su_highlight background=”#ff99f8″]Alternatively, if there’s more developer than bleach,[/su_highlight] the product would be very creamy and slip out of the hair very easily. It would also have less lightening power.

Therefore, you must respect the proportions: