Winter is upon us, bringing cozy sweaters and hot chocolates, but also unique challenges for your hair. The cold, dry air can make your tresses feel brittle and lifeless. Don’t worry! With the right products, you can maintain fabulous hair throughout the winter season.
Here are our top 10 product recommendations to perfect your winter haircare routine, featuring expert advice from the Allure team:
1. Commit to a weekly hair masque: Just as weekly face masks are crucial for maintaining healthy skin, incorporating weekly hair masks can greatly improve the condition of dry, damaged hair. Keep your hair deeply hydrated with Moroccanoil's Intense Hydrating Mask. This rich, creamy formula restores moisture to dry, damaged hair, leaving it soft, shiny, and more manageable.
Treat yourself to a quick, reviving five-minute hair mask. Moroccanoil® Intense Hydrating Mask is a high-performance, rich and creamy deep conditioner formulated for medium to thick, dry hair. Infused with antioxidant-rich argan oil and nourishing ingredients, it hydrates and conditions while dramatically improving hair's texture, elasticity, shine and manageability.
Winner, Reviewer's Choice Awards: Best in Beauty, Best Luxury Hair Mask, Influenster.com, 2018
2. Shield your hair from heat styling: Although it's tempting to increase the heat during winter, excessive heat styling can cause dryness and breakage.Protect your hair from heat damage with Kevin Murphy's Heated.Defense. This lightweight, invisible leave-in treatment provides thermal protection up to 450°F, ensuring your hair remains smooth and healthy even with regular styling.
Protect your hair against daily life’s biggest aggressor, heat damage. HEATED.DEFENSE is a weightless and invisible leave-in treatment foam to protect your hair against damage associated with heated and mechanical tools. Providing heat protection up to 232˚C / 450˚F, this leave-in foam distributes easily and disappears in all hair types, providing a weightless protective shield.
BENEFITS:
- Sulphate, paraben and cruelty-free
- Protects the hair against heat
- Reduces damage
- Helps smoothes and detangle hair
- Softening and lightweight
3. Keep your hair hydrated! The dry winter air can deplete moisture from your hair. Counteract this by using hydrating products such as Davroe Moisture Hydrating Shampoo and Conditioner. This powerful pair are each formulated to restore and maintain optimal moisture levels, leaving your hair soft, smooth, and revitalised.
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Quench your hair’s thirst with the Davroe Moisture Hydrating Duo, designed to deliver deep hydration and nourishment for dry and damaged hair. This powerful pair includes the Moisture Hydrating Shampoo and Conditioner—each formulated to restore and maintain optimal moisture levels, leaving your hair soft, smooth, and revitalized.
Moisture Hydrating Shampoo 325ml
Begin your hydration routine with the Davroe Moisture Hydrating Shampoo. This gentle cleanser effectively removes impurities while delivering essential moisture to your hair. Infused with natural ingredients, this shampoo replenishes and revitalizes dry, damaged hair, ensuring it remains healthy and hydrated.
Moisture Hydrating Conditioner 325ml
Follow up with the Davroe Moisture Hydrating Conditioner to lock in moisture and maintain hydration. This rich, luxurious conditioner detangles and smooths, providing deep nourishment and leaving your hair soft, silky, and manageable. The blend of natural extracts works to restore your hair’s natural moisture balance, ensuring long-lasting hydration.
Why You'll Love It:
- Deep Hydration: Provides intense moisture for dry and damaged hair.
- Nourishing Formula: Infused with natural ingredients to nourish and revitalize.
- Smooth and Manageable: Leaves hair soft, silky, and easy to manage.
- Restores Balance: Helps to restore and maintain optimal moisture levels.
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4. Add a scalp brush to your list of must have hair tools. Adding a scalp brush to your haircare regimen can enhance blood flow and support a healthy scalp. Incorporate ROH's newest scalp scrub brush into your routine for a refreshing scalp massage. This brush stimulates blood circulation, promotes hair growth, and helps evenly distribute scalp treatments.
ROH Scalp Scrub Brush is designed in conjunction with ROH shampoos, conditioners, oils, leave-in and rinse out treatments and scalp products. ROH brush exfoliates & massages the scalp by removing build up of products & impurities.
Benefits:
- Stimulates the scalp to help promote blood circulation
- Promotes healthy scalp
- Removes impurities from the scalp
- Removes residue and build-up of products
- Can be used on wet or dry hair
5. Keep your scalp healthy. Winter can be tough on your scalp, just as it is on your skin. The cold, dry air often leads to dryness, flakiness, and irritation. To ensure your scalp stays healthy and nourished during these colder months, it’s essential to adjust your haircare routine. Keep your scalp healthy and hydrated with Kerasilk Exfoliating Scalp Pre-Wash. This luxurious treatment removes impurities and dead skin cells, preparing your scalp for optimal absorption of nourishing ingredients.
A gentle deep-cleansing scalp pre-wash infused with Biomimetic Silk, Ectoin & Jojoba-derived Exfoliants (Jojoba Beads). Our 100% vegan formula removes excess sebum and dead skin cells while purifying pores to provide the perfect foundation for long-lasting scalp revitalization.
- Long-lasting scalp revitalization
- Exfoliates the scalp and cleanses the pores without damaging the cuticles or causing physical irritation
- Effectively and gently removes oil, pollution, dead skin cells and product build up
- Creates a refreshed and energized scalp feel
- Fights odor
- Free from: silicones, sulfates, dyes, microplastics, mineral oils
- 100% Vegan formula
- Climate neutral product
- Tube made from 30% recycled plastic
Fragrance: Tangerine, lotus & Musk
6. Bye bye cotton, hello silk! As winter’s chill sets in, it’s not just your skin and hair that need extra care—your pillowcase plays a crucial role too. Switching to a silk pillowcase, such as those from Bondi Boost, can be a game-changer for your hair during the colder months. Silk pillowcases are not only gentler on your hair, reducing friction and preventing breakage, but they also help maintain your hair’s moisture balance. Embrace the luxury of silk to keep your hair healthy and vibrant all winter long.
Introducing the Bondi Boost Satin Pillow Case, the ultimate sleep companion for luxurious hair care and beauty rest. Crafted with premium satin material, this pillowcase offers a silky smooth surface that not only feels sumptuously soft against your skin but also delivers a multitude of benefits to your hair.
Say goodbye to morning tangles and frizz! The smooth texture of our satin pillowcase reduces friction between your hair and the fabric as you sleep, minimizing breakage and split ends. Wake up to effortlessly manageable locks and prolong the life of your hairstyles.
But that's not all – our satin pillowcase is also gentle on your skin, helping to prevent facial creases and wrinkles while you slumber. It's the perfect solution for maintaining a youthful complexion and ensuring a restful night's sleep.
AVAILABLE COLOURS:
- Ivory
- Blush
- Purple
7. Extend your hair washing days: In winter, resist the urge to wash your hair too frequently, as it can remove essential natural oils. To prolong the time between washes, opt for a high-quality dry shampoo. We recommend IGK's Direct Flight Dry Shampoo, which effectively absorbs excess oil, adds volume, and refreshes your hair without the need for water.
IGK Hair is the game-changing brand for effortless 'cool-girl' hair, providing high-powered hair essentials that are equal parts relevant and effective. IGK Direct Flight Multi-tasking Matcha Dry Shampoo is a texturising, volumising, style extending dry shampoo that lifts dirt while absorbing oil and sweat. This dry shampoo contains Turmeric and Charcoal Powder for a medium cleanse that revives and refreshes your style.
Key Features:
- Safe for chemically treated & coloured hair
- Made without sulfates (SLS or SLES), parabens, petrolatum, mineral oil & gluten
- Vegan & animal cruelty free, Leaping Bunny certified
Additional Information:
- Fragrance: Bergamot, Mimosa & Tuscan Leather
8. Wet hair outside = no thanks! Hair is significantly more fragile when wet compared to when it's dry, so it's crucial to avoid going outside with wet or damp hair, as it can freeze and become damaged. While excessive heat is not advised, it's important to dry your hair before braving the cold. Use the MUK blow dryer on a low or medium heat setting to gently dry your hair and safeguard it from the harsh winter elements.
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muk's professional hairdryer is meticulously designed for both salon professionals and discerning consumers who demand the best in hair care technology. This advanced hairdryer combines cutting-edge features to ensure an exceptional drying experience while promoting hair health and shine:
- Infrared Light Technology: Infuses gentle heat deep within the hair shaft, optimizing moisture balance and offering protection against thermal damage. This method ensures hair is dried gently and quickly, enhancing its natural shine.
- Ionic Generator: Emits millions of negative ions, infusing the hair with incredible shine and providing an extra layer of protection.
- Adjustable Settings: Features adjustable temperature and fan speeds, allowing for a customized drying experience tailored to your hair type and condition.
- Professional 3 Meter 360° Swivel Cord: Designed for maximum flexibility and ease of use, the swivel cord prevents tangling and ensures freedom of movement during styling sessions.
muk's hairdryer is not just a tool but a professional-grade ally in achieving salon-quality results at home, ensuring your hair remains healthy, shiny, and beautifully styled.
9. Give your hair some extra love with a hair oil to finish off your routine. Complete your winter haircare routine with a nourishing hair oil, such as Oribe's Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil. This luxurious product not only imparts a beautiful shine and intense moisture but also creates a protective barrier against harsh environmental factors. Using a hair oil in winter is essential for maintaining hydration and shielding your hair from the elements.
Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil is luxuriously light, absorbing instantly to restore hair to its prime. Each drop penetrates the hair to deeply condition, strengthen and smooth for intense nourishment and incredible shine. A special blend of emollients and Shea Butter condition and soften hair, Oribe's Signature Complex defends hair environmental stressors and Argan, Jasmine and Cassis Seed Oils reduce frizz, combat dryness and add luxurious luster.
Benefits:
- Dermatologist tested
- Provides UV protection
- Safe for colour and keratin treated hair
- Sulfate, paraben and gluten free
- Vegan & animal cruelty free
10. Adjust your water temprature. Last but not least avoid hot showers that can strip your hair of natural oils. Opt for lukewarm water to help maintain your hair's moisture balance and prevent dryness.
By embracing these top 10 tips, you’ll be on track to keep your hair looking healthy and beautiful all winter long. Integrate these practices into your daily routine to enjoy luscious, well-maintained locks throughout the season.
