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Garnier’s Ultimate Guide to Dry Hair: Best Products & Treatments for Healthy, Luscious Locks

If your hair is feeling brittle or breaks easily, these are key signs that you might be dealing with dry hair. You might also notice a flaky scalp or a lot of small, flyaway hairs. There are lots of reasons you might find your hair feels dry, ranging from your hair care routine to your environment or genetics.

But if you’re feeling confused or hopeless, don’t despair! In this article, we break down common causes of dryness and shed light on the best treatments for dry hair.

Why is my hair dry?

There are a few factors that tend to be behind dry hair – if any of these apply to you, you have a great starting point for tackling the issue!

1) Excessive washing

2) Heat styling

3) Environmental factors

Over-washing your hair could be drying it out

One common culprit behind dry hair is excessive washing. While this might feel counterintuitive, washing your hair more often than needed can strip away the natural oils that help your hair feel hydrated, leaving your locks feeling dry and tired.

This problem can be exacerbated if the products you’re using include ingredients that prevent or reduce moisture. For example, alcohol formulas are often found in haircare products, but these can be extremely drying and do more harm than good.

Heat styling can also lead to dry hair

It's also important to pay attention to other elements of your wash day routine. Hot water can also dry out hair, as it prevents hair cuticles from resealing and locking in moisture. So if you’re suffering with particularly dry hair, try using lukewarm water to rinse out your products and see if it helps counter this issue.

Likewise, using heat in your post-wash styling can also dry your hair out. Blow-drying, straightening, or curling – and especially if you’re not using a good-quality heat protectant – can strip your hair’s natural moisture and leave you with damage and dryness. Reducing heat styling can help tackle this problem.

Environmental factors might be at play

Other issues can be harder to control. For example, environmental conditions such as sun exposure or extreme cold can impact your hair’s healthy look, as can a lack of moisture in the air.

Best ingredients to leave hair feeling hydrated

To help hydrate dry hair and keep it feeling its best, look for ingredients that promote moisture and lock it in. There are a few natural ingredients that you might already have in your cupboard that can help tackle dry hair:

● Coconut oil

● Honey

● Banana

A long-time favourite is coconut oil, which penetrates through the hair cuticles and can also reduce the dry skin on your scalp. Another popular choice that you might already have in your cupboard is honey – which is a natural emollient and humectant, meaning that it helps your hair retain moisture and can leave you with soft and shiny tresses.

A lesser-known natural remedy for dry hair is the humble banana. Bananas are an excellent source of Vitamin B6, which is rich in minerals and collagen to make your hair stronger and thicker.

Our best dry hair treatments

Getting started on your healthy-looking hair routine begins with finding the products that work best for you.

If you’re looking for an option for everyday use, we recommend the Hair Food Banana Shampoo and Conditioner. This combo helps nourish your hair and feeds it with nourishment, while the thick formula absorbs quickly. It also makes it easier to detangle damp hair, helping to avoid breakages and additional damage.

For days when your hair needs a little extra help, we recommend the Nourishing Banana Hair Drink. This contains ultra-thin lamellas that coat your hair, leaving you with a smooth and shiny finish.

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And to keep your hair looking healthy long-term, we recommend adding in a regular hair mask for dry hair such as our Hair Food 3-in-1 Leave-in Mask. This can be applied to wet or dry hair and can be washed out or left on depending on the effect you want, thanks to its incredible melting texture.

Our best treatments for curly dry hair

If you’ve got curly hair, you may find that you deal with even more dryness as the texture can act as a barrier to your scalp’s natural oils travelling down each strand. We’ve created a range of products that are tailored to curly hair and which feature intensely hydrating ingredients.


Our Hair Food Cocoa Butter Shampoo is light and foamy but contains a rich mix of cocoa butter and jojoba oil to lock in moisture. It’s complemented by our Hair Food Cocoa Butter Conditioner, as well as the Hair Food 3-in-1 Leavin-in Mask, which can be used as a pre-shampoo, a deep conditioner or as a rinse-out hair mask.


Whether you’re dealing with dryness or just want to make sure you maintain your moisture, building up a good hair care routine with products that work for you is key to hair that looks healthy, hydrated and happy.

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