Do you twirl your hair, lost in thought, and hear it crunch? Dry hair leads to damage like breakage and split ends. When your hair gets sapped of moisture, you’ll experience flyaways, frizziness, otherwise an unmanageable mess. If you want is to stop looking like you’ve just rolled out of bed, you have to get those dried-up tresses to cooperate. If you’ve caught yourself daydreaming about dipping your head into a vat of olive oil, you need help.
Here’s a few hydrating shampoos that can help repair dry hair:
1. Redken All Soft Mega Shampoo
Using plant-sourced ingredients like cactus extract, aloe vera and Sacha Inchi Oil, Redken All Soft Mega Shampoo repairs damaged cuticles while moisturizing. Aloe vera, a well-known sunburn remedy, and cactus extract hydrate and provide protection. Sacha Inchi Oil has gotten lots of buzz lately as a food and beauty ingredient. It has a special property that allows it to be absorbed quickly into cuticles, locking in moisture. A natural emollient, it softens and repairs hair as well.
2. Pureology Hydrate Sheer Shampoo
Pureology Hydrate Sheer works in three ways to hydrate, strengthen, and soften hair. First, it’s sulfate-free. Sulfates are detergents that help your shampoo work up a big lather. While the bubbles can help remove dirt, they’re mostly just for show and can actually remove your hair’s natural oils, thus drying it out. Pureology’s shampoo produces a gentle lather that doesn’t strip your hair of its natural protection.
Its second weapon, micro-emulsion technology, makes the oils work with the water instead of battling it, so the shampoo’s oils stay on your strands while you’re washing your hair. More oil is absorbed and able to coat hair in a protective layer with the micro-emulsion technology. Lastly, natural ingredients such as green tea extract and jojoba condition your hair, while proteins extracted from oat, wheat and soy repair weak spots in the cuticle. Together these ingredients nourish, soften and strengthen your hair while hydrating it. Pureology’s exclusive AntiFade Complex® protects color treated hair. The shampoo’s packaging uses 95% post-consumer recycled material, the shampoo itself is a 100% vegan formula, plus it’s cruelty-free! Bonus.
3. Living Proof Restore Shampoo
A combination of conditioning agents and mild amino acids in this shampoo will soften your hair, but the star of this show is the patented “Healthy Hair Molecule.” Once you begin shampooing, it immediately begins repairing your cuticles. The “Healthy Hair Molecule” improves the manageability and softness of your hair and offers improved cleaning that lasts longer than other shampoos by protecting your tresses from dirt. This shampoo is also free of parabens, phthalates, sulfates (no SLS or SLES), silicone and it’s cruelty-free. It’s safe to use on chemically treated or dyed hair as well.
4. Bumble and bumble Hairdresser’s Invisible Oil Shampoo
First, this product is great whether your hair is straight, wavy or curly. It’s a cream shampoo formulated to tackle dry, brittle or coarse hair that’s medium to thick. Using a combination of sweet almond, grapeseed, and safflower seed oils, Bumble and bumble Hairdresser’s Invisible Oil Shampoo moisturizes and sheaths cuticles to keep hair manageable and return its soft shininess.
Free of sulfates, parabens, mineral oil, formaldehyde and phthalates, it does not produce a lather. But don’t worry – your hair is getting clean. It’s also another cruelty-free product! These shampoos make you look good and contribute to making the world a little better.
