Discover Health Restoring Hair Oils That Soothe Your Scalp And Strengthen Your Strands
Essential for healthy, radiant hair and a balanced scalp, hair oils are an absolute game changer, the nutrient and antioxidant-enriched formulas helping to nourish your strands, soothe your scalp, and encourage optimal hair growth to leave your hair healthy, shiny, and full of vitality. But how do you know where to begin and which are the best hair oils for your hair type and concern?
Sharing advice on the best hair growth oil and the best scalp oil for your specific strand and scalp concerns, as well as hints and tips on how to use your hair oils effectively, this blog post makes a great introduction to the world of hair oils, helping you achieve salon-style locks every day of the week.
Tips For Maximising Your Hair Oil Experience
1. Choose The Right Oil For Your Hair
Choosing the right hair oil for your hair type and concern is a crucial step in your hair care routine, determining whether your hair is oily, dry, combination, or normal, and identifying any specific concerns such as hair growth, dandruff, or damage.
Once you can recognise the needs of your hair, the next step is to familiarise yourself with hair oils and their strand-enhancing benefits:
• Argan oil: Ideal for all hair types, particularly dry, damaged, frizzy, and combination hair, this oil provides balance to leave your hair healthy and full of vitality.
• Coconut oil: Great for dry or damaged hair, this deeply nourishing hair oil moisturises your strands, leaving them healthy and shiny.
• Jojoba oil: Suitable for oily hair types, as it closely resembles our natural sebum, this lightweight oil is perfect for nourishing oily strands, providing intense hydration without weighing down your hair.
• Rosemary oil: Known for promoting hair growth and stimulating your scalp, this oil is perfect for strengthening your strands, leaving your locks long and healthy.
• Peppermint oil: Helps with itchy scalps and can be invigorating.
• Castor oil: Known for its hair growth properties and scalp nourishment.
2. Combine Oils For Maximum Benefits
Enhancing the individual properties of your hair oils and providing comprehensive care for your hair and scalp, combining hair oils is the secret to ensuring your hair and scalp stays healthy.
For maximum strand soothing benefits, experiment with blends or opt for pre-mixed oil formulations that target the specific concerns of your hair and scalp.
3. Always Perform A Patch Test
Essential for ensuring you don’t experience any adverse reactions, irritation, inflammation, or hair damage, a patch test before beginning any hair oil treatment keeps your hair and scalp healthy.
4. Massage Your Scalp Gently
Promoting optimal absorption and stimulating your circulation, a gentle, circular scalp massage helps your chosen hair oil penetrate the hair shaft and follicles, maximising its transformative hair and scalp benefits.
5. Apply Oil To The Length Of Your Hair
Nourishing dry and brittle strands, hair oils are perfect for preventing split ends and enhancing the shine of your strands. For best results, apply a small amount to your hair after massaging the oil into your scalp, to leave your hair healthy, shiny, and hydrated.
6. Wrap Your Hair And Let The Oil Work Its Magic
After applying the oil to your scalp and through the lengths of your hair, wrap your hair in a towel or bandana to prevent it from drying out, letting the oil penetrate your hair and scalp for at least an hour, or overnight if possible, before washing it off.
7. Rinse And Shampoo Thoroughly
Preventing residue buildup and maintaining a healthy scalp, rinsing your hair thoroughly with warm water before shampooing with a gentle, sulphate-free shampoo, ensures you get the best from your hair oils, enhancing their efficacy to leave your strands soft and shiny.
Eight Of The Best Hair Oils To Add To Your Haircare Kit
Excited to introduce hair oils into your haircare and scalp care routine? We’ve rounded up eight of our favourite hair oils, sharing with you their benefits to guarantee you're stepping out in style, with strong, shiny strands, and a healthy scalp.
Bread Beauty Supply Hair Oil: Everyday Gloss
Helping you achieve everyday hair perfection, this multi-use, non-greasy Bread Beauty Supply Hair Oil softens, moisturises, and adds brilliant shine to all hair types, the Kakadu plum and safflower oil-infused formula leaving your strands glossy and hydrated.
K18 Molecular Repair Hair Oil
Working to strengthen your strands, repair damage, reduce frizz, and enhance shine, this weightless, biotech-engineered K18 Molecular Repair Hair Oil reverses hair damage while providing 450°F heat protection to reveal healthier, smoother hair.
CENTRED En-Root Scalp Oil
Soothing, detoxifying, and stimulating, this CENTRED En-Root Scalp Oil is a pre-wash hair treatment that encourages optimal hair growth, the 3-in-1 oil-to-milk formula calming irritation, exfoliating dead skin, and energising hair follicles for stronger roots and healthier hair.
Augustinus Bader The Hair Oil
Delivering transformative results, this Augustinus Bader The Hair Oil is a lightweight, ultra-restorative elixir that delivers hydration and essential nutrients directly to the hair shaft. Powered by the brand's proprietary TFC8® technology, this luxurious oil reduces breakage, smooths split ends, and prevents loss of lustre while boosting thickness, volume, and strength for beautiful, healthy hair.
Moroccanoil Treatment Oil Purple
Leaving your locks bright and brass-free, this Moroccanoil Treatment Oil Purple, tones and corrects, neutralising unwanted yellow and orange tones in blonde, lightened, and grey hair.
Infused with argan oil and violet pigments, this multi-tasking hair oil boosts shine, smooths frizz, and enhances softness, leaving your hair healthy and radiant with a balanced, cool tone.
Hair Syrup Rapunzel Boosting Syrup
Breathing life into dull and stagnant strands, this Hair Syrup Rapunzel Boosting Syrup is a nutrient-rich, pre-wash oil treatment that harnesses the power of pink grapefruit and sweet almond oil to stimulate your scalp, nourish fragile strands, and encourage healthy hair growth, revealing strong, silky, Rapunzel-esque tresses.
Monpure Ultralight Healthy Hair Oil
Ultralight, fast-absorbing, and non-greasy, this Monpure Ultralight Healthy Hair Oil is designed specifically to meet the needs of fine hair, the vegan keratin, Coenzyme Q10, and wheat germ oil-enriched formula nourishing, minimising frizz, and enhancing shine while shielding your strands from heat damage.
Innersense Hair Renew Scalp Oil
Soothing, moisturising, and reducing dryness-related itching and flaking, this transformative omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid-enriched Innersense Hair Renew Scalp Oil encourages a balanced, healthy environment for optimal hair growth and a comfortable, well-conditioned scalp, leaving your locks healthy, strong, and long.
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Ideal for sufferers of a dry, irritated, flakey, or oily scalp, CENTRED. En-Root Scalp Oil soothes, calms, detoxes, and stimulates hair growth.
Augustinus Bader’s The Hair Oil is a clean hair care breakthrough fusing luxury with efficacy in an ultra-restorative elixir to optimise the look and feel of your hair for a glass-like shine and lasting protection
Loved learning all about hair oils and their multitude of hair and scalp benefits? Why not stick around a while longer and read our latest blog post where we’re In Conversation With BREAD Beauty Supply's Founder Maeva Heim: Simplifying Hair Care For Curls, Coils, and Kinks.
