10 Essentials for Shiny, Healthy Hair
As we take our bodies into full-on detox mode, we like to do something similar for our hair, adding in nourishing hair treatments, serums, conditioners, masks, and creams to optimize hair health in every way we can. At home or at the salon, any repair beyond a cut involves moisture—and, ideally, a little gentle heat. If you’re detoxing in the tub, take that steamy 20 minutes as the perfect opportunity for a softening, shine-boosting hair mask. Likewise, if you’re about to do yoga or Tracy Anderson or simply sweat in an infrared sauna, take advantage of the heat you’ll generate (it helps oils and nutrients really sink into your hair) and run a little conditioner or clean hair oil through your hair before you start. You can also achieve a similar effect with a hair-dryer, using heat to supercharge the oil or cream. Below, our top 10 products for real results: smoother, shinier, silkier, healthier-looking hair.
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STEALTH TREATMENT AND STYLER
Part hair oil, part shine-boosting mist, this treatment delivers seriously glossy, hair-brightening magic in one spritz. It’s chock-full of nourishing hair ingredients like rahua, morete, and sacha inchi oils (sustainably sourced from the Amazon), plus blue tansy to nourish, smooth, brighten, and protect. Brush through for gorgeous, just-left-the-salon results.
Rahua Color Full Glossing Oil Mist goop, $58SHOP NOW -
CUTTING-EDGE HAIR-DRYER
Sleek and minimalist and almost unbelievably light, this dryer comes with two different-size nozzles and a diffuser, so creating just about any look goes more smoothly than ever. It’s made with something called Oxy-Active technology, which creates a vacuum effect, so it quickly dries hair.
Ga.Ma. Italy Professional IQ Perfetto Hair Dryer goop, $399SHOP NOW -
MIRACLE HAIR SERUM
To fight frizz, detangle, and boost shine, use this preshampoo glow-and-texture treatment. It’s made with shine-boosting plumeria monoi oil, cuticle-sealing vitamin C, and omega-rich sea buckthorn oil and the results—shinier, softer, healthier-looking hair with truly amazing texture—are really impressive.
goop Beauty GOOPGLOW Restore + Shine Hair Serum goop, $55/$44 with subscriptionSHOP NOW -
ANTIFRIZZ TOWEL
For more shine and less frizz and breakage overall, plus a sped-up drying routine, this light, easy towel will change the way you dry your hair. It’s super absorbent, soft to the touch, and ultragentle on hair—which means not only a quicker dry but also more-manageable hair when you take it off. When you’re out of the shower, wrap it at your hairline, tuck the ends in, and let it soak up the extra moisture for shinier, softer, frizz-free, beautiful results.
Aquis Flip Hair Drying Tool goop, $50SHOP NOW -
SHINE-INDUCING SHAMPOO
A gigantic, sleekly minimalist bottle of luxurious, foaming cream shampoo? Sign us up. It’s loaded with strengthening botanicals like bush tomato and vitamin C, as well as scalp-soothing chamomile and damask rose extracts, and leaves your hair softer, deeply moisturized, and noticeably shinier and more manageable.
Grown Alchemist Nourishing Shampoo goop, $50SHOP NOW -
RICH CONDITIONER
Made with ginkgo biloba, avocado, and jojoba oils, this thick, luscious conditioner leaves you with shampoo-commercial hair: moisturized, smooth, and impossibly shiny. It absorbs into hair instantly, nourishing, moisturizing, and silkifying while the subtle scent of cedar, sandalwood, and bergamot wafts through the shower—pure heaven.
Sangre de Fruta Garden of Earthly Delights Botanical Conditioner goop, $52SHOP NOW -
NOURISHING MASK
For bouncy, silky-glossy hair that looks and feels amazing, massage in this deeply moisturizing hair mask once a week. It’s made with powerful ingredients that are popular in skin-care formulas (and turn out to be just as good for your hair) like hyaluronic acid, shea butter, squalane, algae, and provitamin B5.
Dr. Barbara Sturm Repair Hair Mask goop, $65SHOP NOW -
SMOOTHING BRUSH
Quite possibly the most gentle brush on earth (it’s made with bendy, forgiving bristles, so it creates less uncomfortable tension while brushing through knots and tangles), this flexible, internet-famous brush helps minimize snags and breakage. It fits easily in the palm of your hand and makes brushing your hair feel like a luxurious scalp massage.
Manta Manta Pink Hairbrush goop, $30SHOP NOW -
NEXT-TO-NOTHING DRY SHAMPOO
You’ll never use an aerosol dry shampoo again after trying this best-ever super fine volumizing powder. It’s made with tapioca starch to absorb excess oil and Japanese persimmon powder to revitalize hair—and it smells subtly of bergamot, yuzu, and lemongrass. It comes with a fluffy mini brush—use the powder all over or just a dab where you need it. Our tip: Apply it at night before you go to bed and wake up with refreshed, gorgeously textured hair.
Crown Affair The Dry Shampoo goop, $36SHOP NOW -
MOISTURIZING LEAVE-IN CONDITIONER
The ultimate secret weapon for silky-smooth, frizz-free hair, this is made with argan, castor-seed, baobab, and sunflower-seed oils and squalane, plus the brand’s signature TFC8—a groundbreaking ingredient that’s great for both hair and scalp. It moisturizes, tames flyaways, and adds shine, leaving hair soft and more manageable.
Augustinus Bader The Leave-In Hair Treatment goop, $52SHOP NOW
