How to Pick the Best Shampoo for Your Hair

Discover Your Hair Type

The most important thing to do before picking a shampoo is to discover your hair type. Most hair types will fall into one (or more) of the following categories:

 

• Dry hair (brittle, split ends, frequent dandruff)
• Oily hair (oily scalp and T-zone, greasy hair even after washing)
• Colored hair (hair recently bleached or colored professionally)
• Blonde hair (bleached blonde hair, which requires specialist shampoo to maintain color)
• Damaged hair (hair falling out, dryness, dullness, hair breakage)
• Fine hair (easy to manage, can be difficult to style, can often appear greasy easily)

Choose a Shampoo Based on your Key Hair Concerns

Once you’ve established your hair type, figure out what your main haircare concern is. Do you want volume, shine, or just the best shampoo type for your hair? Most shampoos will offer the following hair-nourishing benefits:

 

• Hydration
• Volume and thickness
• Damage repair
• Color protection
• Color treatment (e.g. Hydration and damage control for color-treated hair)

 

Best Shampoo For Every Hair Type

To make things easier for you, we’ve rounded up our top picks for the best shampoo for every hair type:

 

Best Shampoo for Frizzy Hair

 

Disciple Bain Fluidéliste Gentle Shampoo by Kerastase is our top shampoo recommendation for those with frizzy or unmanageable hair. Using a sulfate-free formula enriched with smoothing agents, this shampoo will help control frizz, de-tangle uncontrollable hair and provide soft and silky results with frequent use.

Kerastase Discipline Bain Fluidéliste Gentle Shampoo

 

For enhanced results, pair this shampoo with Kerastase’s Disciple Fondant Fluidéaliste, the accompanying conditioner guaranteed to help get frizzy hair under control.

Kerastase Discipline Fondant Fluidéaliste

 

Can I use this shampoo every day? Yes

Key nourishing benefits: Hair manageability, softness, and smoothness, hair de-tangling

 

Best Shampoo for Damaged Hair

If you have damaged hair and dream about restoring it to its glory days, we always recommend Olaplex. Olaplex is the go-to haircare brand for damaged hair, and their shampoo is a great place to start. Olaplex Bond Shampoo No.4 works in conjunction with their other Olaplex products, and the brand has become a cult favorite in the beauty community.

Olaplex Bond Maintenance Shampoo No.4

 

With its reality-defying powers in reversing all types of hair damage (color damage, bleach damage, and sustained heat damage) this shampoo is our No.1 pick for those with damaged or broken hair.

 

Can I use this shampoo every day? Yes

Key nourishing benefits: Hair repair, bond repair, restoring shine and softness

 

Best Shampoo for Colored Hair

When coloring your hair, some of the hair’s fibers are destroyed in the bleaching process. Therefore, it’s super important to use a shampoo designed for color-treated hair.

 

If you have colored hair and want a shampoo that nourishes and revitalizes,   is our top pick. Designed specifically for colored hair, Angel Wash strengthens fine hair with an antioxidant-rich formula, preventing breakage while maintaining color.

 

If you have bleached blonde hair, we’d recommend Olaplex’s No. 4 Blonde Enhancer Toning shampoo, ideal for avoiding any brassiness that can often occur over time with darker hair that has been bleached blonde.

Olaplex No.4P Blonde Enhancer Toning Shampoo

 

Can I use these shampoos every day? Yes

Key nourishing benefits: Color repair, color maintenance, brassiness control, antioxidant-rich formula

 

Best Shampoo for Curly Hair

Curly hair needs some TLC now and again to keep it manageable, soft, and free from frizz. Aveda Be Curly Shampoo offers an organic formula enriched with soothing aloe, so you can wash your hair without developing the dreaded frizz.

Aveda Be Curly Shampoo

 

This shampoo also boosts shine and is designed specifically to treat and nourish curly hair.

 

Can I use this shampoo every day? Yes

Key nourishing benefits: Curly hair management, de-tangling, curl shine

 

 

Best Shampoo for Fine Hair

If you have fine hair and want to inject a bit of body and fullness, a volumizing shampoo such as Alterna’s Multiplying Volume Shampoo is a great option. This biotin-infused shampoo offers a lightweight formula with added color protection and shine.

Alterna Multiplying Volume Shampoo

 

Suitable for everyday use, we’d recommend pairing this shampoo with its conditioning duo, Alterna’s Multiplying Volume Conditioner.

Alterna Multiplying Volume Conditioner

 

Can I use this shampoo every day? Yes

Key nourishing benefits: Volumizing, thickening, shine benefits, color protection

 

Best Shampoo for an Oily Scalp

If you have an oily scalp and often suffer from greasy hair even with daily hair-washing, your hair might be in need of some balance. Kerastase’s Specifique Bain Divalent shampoo works by treating oiliness at the root, nourishing the hair follicles while controlling oil production.

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If you have oily hair, keeping your scalp balanced, hydrated and free from irritation is going to help enormously when it comes to sebum control.

 

Can I use this shampoo every day? Yes, but washing oily hair every day can increase oil production, so only wash your hair as often as you do normally.

Key nourishing benefits: Scalp balance, oil control, sebum regulation

 

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