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Best hair oil for frizz
Living Proof No Frizz Vanishing Oil
Best hair oil for frizz
Living Proof No Frizz Vanishing Oil
For finer hair that tends to frizz, this one really is magic. The extra-lightweight blend of five oils works to block humidity from puffing up your hair, yet feels completely undetectable on even the most slender of strands. The result is sleek, shiny hair that never feels greasy. Try applying it to dry ends as a post-styling sealant, too.
Hair Syrup Grows-Mary Hair Oil
Hair Syrup Grows-Mary Hair Oil
Rosemary oil is all over Tiktok at the moment, with plenty of users lapping it up as a quick hack for speedy hair growth. While scientific research on its effectiveness is currently scant, there is a hefty amount of anecdotal support for Hair Syrup's Grows-Mary hair oil: seriously, the reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
Simply put, it's a pre-wash hair treatment that contains rosemary oil diluted in a base of gentle carrier oils. Massage it into your hairline the night before wash day, and you may see baby hairs appear in a matter of weeks.
Best hair oil for damage
Olaplex No.7 Bonding Oil
Best hair oil for damage
Olaplex No.7 Bonding Oil
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Yes, Olaplex – the love of your hairdresser's life – also makes a hair oil that you can use at home.If you really need more detail before adding this one to your cart, know that it's formulated to penetrate so deeply into strands, it can repair damage caused by straighteners, rough brushing and that time you bleached your own hair over the bathtub.
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Best hair oil for shine
Hair by Sam McKnight Love Me Do Nourishing Oil
Best hair oil for shine
Hair by Sam McKnight Love Me Do Nourishing Oil
Blinding shine is the aim with Sam McKnight's latest launch. Love Me Do is a particularly light blend of oils, designed to be smoothed over damp or dry hair as a finishing touch. It works especially well on fine hair, and smells incredible: think fresh, green and crisp.
Best hair oil for fine hair
Champo Weightless Hair Oil
Best hair oil for fine hair
Champo Weightless Hair Oil
Designed as a finishing serum, rather than a deep treatment, Champo's oil is one of the lightest we've tried. It's wonderful for smoothing flyaways without making lengths look greasy, and adds a brilliant shine too.
Best luxury hair oil
Oribe Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil
Best luxury hair oil
Oribe Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil
Sitting firmly in the 'treat yourself' camp is this delicious hair oil from Oribe. Perfect for anyone who has a close relationship with their straighteners, it'll shield from heat damage and add incredible shine to lacklustre strands. The blend of argan oil, cassis, watermelon and lychee sinks in swiftly, leaving behind the kind of fragrance that'll make you forget all about your perfume (although if you want to double down on the scent, the brand makes those too).
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Best hair oil for heat protection
K18 Molecular Repair Hair Oil
Best hair oil for heat protection
K18 Molecular Repair Hair Oil
Every straightener addict knows the importance of using heat protection, but it's fair to say many traditional sprays and mists leave your hair feeling a little crunchy.
Offering the best of both worlds, this Tiktok-famous healing oil shields from temperatures up to a precise 232°C (which more than covers your Ghds) while penetrating the hair shaft to repair the broken keratin bonds that lead to straggly strands.
Best hair oil for all hair types
Arkive The Good Habit Hybrid Oil
Best hair oil for all hair types
Arkive The Good Habit Hybrid Oil
Revered hair stylist Adam Reed is a fragrance fanatic, so it makes sense that his newly launched line smells incredible. This lightweight hair oil adds supreme shine while smoothing flyaways, and releases a trail of rhubarb and white florals with every hair swish (there will be swishing).
Best hair oil for an overnight treatment
Fable & Mane HoliRoots Hair Oil
Best hair oil for an overnight treatment
Fable & Mane HoliRoots Hair Oil
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The founders of Fable & Mane launched this hair oil as an ode to the Indian hair-oiling rituals they treasured as children. Containing safflower, sesame and jojoba alongside strengthening ashwagandha, it's a true-to-tradition nourisher designed to be massaged in with care, and left to linger overnight.
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Best hair oil for texture and coils
Bread Hair-Oil: Everyday Gloss
Best hair oil for texture and coils
Bread Hair-Oil: Everyday Gloss
Bread Beauty Supply is the name every textured hair girl should know right now. The brand offers everyday essentials that not only care for curls properly, but are a joy to use too. This sweetly scented hair oil adds incredible shine and separation to tighter coils and kinks. It's rich and dense – thanks to the argan and soybean oils inside – but that's exactly the point. 4C curly girls, stop the search.
Best hair oil mist
Ceremonia Oil Mist con Aloe Vera
Best hair oil mist
Ceremonia Oil Mist con Aloe Vera
Curly hair tends to need more of a moisture injection than straight strands, and this aloe-vera based oil mist is up to the task.
The blend of murumuru, chia and coconut oils works to lock in the hydration from the aloe water base, giving your curls enough slip to dry with definition and major bounce.
Thoughtfully, the spray nozzle means you can easily get an even application without over-saturating certain areas – and it's ideal for rehydrating curls without disrupting your pattern throughout the day, too.
Best hair oil for curls
Kérastase Curl Manifesto Huile Incroyable Repair Oil
Best hair oil for curls
Kérastase Curl Manifesto Huile Incroyable Repair Oil
Kérastase's Curl Manifesto line has impressed more than one member of the ELLE beauty team. If you're looking to finally ditch the daily straightening, but aren't sure how to nurture that natural texture, this line will help.
The shampoo and conditioner should be your starting point, but the product that'll really take things up a notch is this lightweight but deeply moisturising oil: one pump, scrunched into wet hair, will conjure the shiny, bouncy curls you didn't know you had.
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Best hair oil for styling
JVN Hair Complete Nourishing Shine Drops
Best hair oil for styling
JVN Hair Complete Nourishing Shine Drops
This is the product that set Jonathan Van Ness' brand on fire in the States – and you'll see why once you get your hands on a bottle. The oil feels significantly lighter than the rest, and creates an instantly glassy shine – as if you've just sat through a lengthy keratin blow-dry.
The secret is the brand's signature hemi-squalane: a skincare-inspired ingredient that slicks over each hair strand to hydrate and smooth, without adding weight or residue. Try it on dry hair after styling for the most blinding results.
Best multi-use hair oil
Aveda Nutriplenish Multi-Use Hair Oil
Best multi-use hair oil
Aveda Nutriplenish Multi-Use Hair Oil
Aveda's all-natural potion can be used however you fancy. The brand recommends it for use before shampooing, after washing, or as an overnight treatment, meaning you're getting serious beauty bang for your buck. And of course, this being Aveda, it smells delicious.
Best hair oil for breakage
Virtue Healing Oil
Best hair oil for breakage
Virtue Healing Oil
Extra moisture is great, but when you reach for the straighteners every single morning, you're going to need something that goes deeper. Virtue's impressive formula contains the brand's own patented human-identical keratin, so slips into those struggling strands to prevent breakage occurring. Thoughtfully, it's a totally clear oil too, meaning those with icy highlights can use it without fear of brassiness.
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Best hair oil for dry ends
Augustinus Bader The Hair Oil
Best hair oil for dry ends
Augustinus Bader The Hair Oil
Surprisingly, one of our favourite products from Augustinus Bader's phenomenally acclaimed line-up is also the most affordable.
The Hair Oil is simply brilliant on lengths that needs a bit of TLC: it's lightweight yet hard-working, containing a blend of vitamin-rich oils that smooth instantly and, in the long-run, work to repair frazzled strands. If you're considering investing in the Bader hair line, start here.
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