12 Products To Hydrate Your Hair After Summer

Summer brings long nights, glowy tans, and beautifully freckled skin. But one thing we don’t vibe with? Dry hair. You might have noticed after a few beach days that your locks are starting to feel dry, dull, and – let’s be real – a little bit crispy. If this sounds like you, it’s time to inject some hydration back to your hair and we’ve got all the strand-quenching solutions. Whether you’re looking for defined curls, long lengths, faster growth, or that glossy shine, adding moisture-enhancing hair products to your routine will help you get there.

Scroll on to discover how to fix dry hair and the haircare essentials you need to breathe life back to your post-summer strands.

After a summer of sun, saltwater, and chlorine, chances are your hair is feeling dry, brittle, and lifeless. To restore it back to full health, it’s important to stock up on products that will nourish and rejuvenate your hair. These include deep conditioning masks rich in hydrating ingredients like argan oil, shea butter, and coconut oil, as these will replenish any lost moisture. Opting for a nourishing shampoo and conditioner tailored towards dryness and damage will also ensure your hair gets the nutrients it’s craving. For an extra boost, leave-in conditioners, serums, and hair oils are a great way to provide continuous hydration and protection to your locks. Regular use of these will help to repair your hair, leaving it soft, shiny, and healthy-looking, whatever the season.

Hair in need of some TLC? We rounded up the best, most hydrating hair heroes out there so you can have fun in the sun without the risk of damaging your locks. 

If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to bring moisture back to your hair, invest in a good hair mask. Simply smooth on, leave, rinse, and you’re good to go. Our fave? Naturally, it’s the By BEAUTY BAY Ultra Hydrate Hair Mask. Enriched with ultra-moisturising ingredients such as hyaluronic acid and meadowfoam, this hair mask infuses moisture from the root to tip to unlock frizz-free, damage-free, strong, healthy, shiny hair.

Another hair-loving essential that’s worth a spot in your beauty stash is the Coco & Eve Sweet Repair Leave In Treatment. If your goal is to hydrate hair that’s been damaged by heat, chemicals, and colour, don’t look any further than this one. Formulated with a hydrating complex of ceramides and hyaluronic acid, this leave-in treatment repairs hair in just three minutes. If you’re wondering if you can rehydrate hair, the answer is in this bottle.

Want to hydrate hair ends? Or smooth frizz? Or just generally get shiny, healthy hair? Then you need the Beauty Works Argan Oil Serum. A blend of argan oils work to deeply nourish the hair, tame frizz, repair split ends, detangle, and improve manageability. It’s also packed with antioxidants, essential fatty acids, and vitamin E to hydrate and soften your strands. Simply smooth through the ends of your hair for a smooth, healthy finish.

It’s a salon fave for good reason. The Bumble and bumble Hairdresser’s Invisible Oil Heat/UV Protective Primer is something that every beauty obsessive needs to try and trust us, you’ll be hooked. This multi-tasking spray works in every situation. Use on wet hair to condition and detangle, or dry hair to smooth frizz and offer heat and UV protection. Enriched with a blend of six lightweight oils, this spray hydrates without leaving your hair heavy, sticky, or greasy.

Want hair that smells as good as that cream? Haul the Sol De Janeiro Brazilian Joia Milky Leave-In Conditioner. Making fast work of rehydrating hair overnight, this leave-in, moisturising formula is enriched with a whole host of hair-loving ingredients. There’s babacu oil that weightlessly hydrates, brazil nut oil to nourish, and cupuacu butter to smooth frizz, making it one of the hardest working formulas you’ll come across.

The clue’s in the name with Pattern’s Intensive Conditioner. This ultra-hydrating, deeply nourishing hair mask is the go-to if you have tightly curled or low porosity hair and you need that moisture hit, fast. It’s a blend of softening ingredients, including avocado oil, shea butter, safflower oil, and acacia decurrens flower. The result? The softest hair of your life.

There’s never been a Davines product we haven’t loved and the Melu Anti-Breakage Conditioner is no exception. This conditioner has anti-breakage in mind, which means it’s naturally high on the moisture scale. The formula allows for softer, sleeker hair that’s free of damaging tangles, knots, and frizz. It’s also made with 90% natural ingredients and manufactured using 100% clean energy, so you can be sure that this is the best way to hydrate hair naturally.

As a colourist brand, Josh Wood Colour always keeps hydration front and centre, as it’s often a key component that’s needed to care for coloured hair. The Miracle Mask is exactly what it says on the bottle — a miracle. The formula maintains hair health, colour brightness, and intensity, and is perfect for natural, coloured, or bleached hair. For those days when your hair needs a little TLC, reach for this one.

It’s been a budget beauty staple for years and it’s still one of our faves in the collection. The Bleach London Reincarnation Scalp Treatment is the ultimate way to get moisture into your hair and scalp. If your scalp is dry, irritated, or flaky, then this balancing mask will help to stabilise your scalp microbiome, promoting hydrated hair straight from the root.

Obsessed with hair syrups? So are we, so that’s why you should believe us when we say that the Hair Syrup Rapunzel Hair Syrup is worthy of a place in your routine. This nourishing pre-wash oil treatment is our go-to when it comes to bringing life back to fragile strands. It’s enriched with invigorating pink grapefruit and moisture-boosting flax seed, loved for their ability to boost hair growth. Suitable for all hair types, you won’t want to miss out on this one.

We’ve been in love with the Shea Moisture Manuka Honey & Yogurt Hydrate & Repair Leave In Conditioner since day dot. It’s the perfect balance between being hydrating and not too heavy, and providing next-level results without too much effort. Each bottle is infused with organic shea butter, manuka honey, and yoghurt to soften, repair, hydrate, and smooth, without any of the nasties. It’s also the perfect solution for rough, dry ends and cuticles, so if you’re suffering from dry ends, try this out.

Last but by no means least is this budget hair hero. The Umberto Giannini Banana Butter Repair & Restore Leave-In Conditioning Styling Butter just goes to show that healthy hair doesn’t have to break the bank. Formulated with banana, shea butter, coconut oil, cupuacu butter, and brazil nut oil, this leave-in conditioner/styling treatment hydrates your hair overnight, throughout the day, and all the way through to your next hair wash day.