Smooth, Shiny Hair For Days With The 10 Best Hair Conditioners You Have To Try!

Conditioner makes your hair soft and shiny, but choosing the right kind, for your hair type is extremely crucial. You might feel that you are choosing an experience, for example, volume, smooth and silky, strengthened, moisturised, but you also need to factor in the right ingredients and your hair type to get that specific experience the bottle of conditioner advertises. A quick overview of what to look for in terms of ingredients with regards to hair type for a particular experience

A good conditioner should have plenty of proteins and amino acids, along with a good amount of antioxidants.

1. For oily hair, you must look for ingredients like glycerin and shea butter and avoid conditioners with labels like smoothening and hydrating, as they will further increase the moisture in your scalp, and choose labels like volumising.

2. For dry and frizzy hair, we recommend using ingredients such as ceramides and vitamin B5, which can help you bring in more moisture. You must avoid labels that say volumising, and go with hydrating and smoothening as they generally have sulphates and can hamper your scalp's natural sebum production.

3. For our curly girls out there, look for conditioners that have natural oils, like coconut and argon oil, and purchase labels that say volumising, hydrating, and smoothening. We also highly recommend using a leave-in conditioner for your curls, so your curls shine and your coils can last longer.

As we now know how to choose and what to look out for, here are the 10 best conditioners that are available on the market.

Olaplex is a hair care brand that is amongst the top contenders in the hair care industry. This bond maintenance strengthening conditioner softens, hydrate, and nourish the hair, with its advanced reparative formulation. It leaves your hair looking shiny, and smooth, and we highly recommend this one for someone dealing with dry, frizzy hair. Another plus for this product is that it is completely safe to use on coloured hair, and will also repair, rebond, and strengthen the hair strands.

Nykaa Rating: 4.4/5

An economical as well as an effective option, L'Oreal Paris makes efficient products that have some really great ingredients. This conditioner came on everyone's list, and is a very good hydrating conditioner that contains hyaluronic acid, and gives your hair, a smoother, shinier, and fuller look. It reduces frizz, adds volume, and retains the moisture while giving you absolutely hydrated and healthier-looking hair. 

Nykaa Rating: 4.5/5

The Ordinary has made waves with their skincare, and their haircare range is nothing short of praises as well. Their behentrimonium chloride conditioner is a lightweight, fragrance-free formula, with a creamy texture, and gives your hair absolute shine, without weighing it down. It's effective and provides shine, and we can also recommend it for someone, with a slightly oily scalp, but would work wonders for frizzy hair.

Nykaa Rating: 4.3/5

Moroccanoil uses the magic of argon oil in their products and have created a range of hair care that professionals swear by. This hydrating conditioner contains argan oil (rich in antioxidants), red algae (balance natural moisture), and vitamin E (protects hair cuticle from dryness), and gives life to your dry, and frizzy hair. Plus, the formula is also sulphate, and paraben-free.

Nykaa Rating: 4.3/5

Packed with argan oil and quinoa, Anomaly's anti-frizz conditioner moisturises, detangles, and controls daily frizz, giving them a surge of nutrients, and helping them look shinier. This product will add a healthy amount of hydration to your hair, and comes in completely recyclable packaging, while also being cruelty-free and vegan. Just be sure, to use a healthy amount, and will provide you with manageable hair for a little more than a week.

Nykaa Rating: 4.2/5

Aveda's curly hair care range has been on everyone's wishlist and the conditioner from this brand is simply the best. This will help you define curls, control your frizz and flyways, and provide your hair with absolute shine. We highly recommend the complete curl range, but if you looking for a curl-friendly conditioner specifically then this should be a no-brainer.

Nykaa Rating: 3.6/5

Toni&Guy is a UK-based company and has been a strong recommendation of many hairdressers. We really like their leave-in conditioner, which gives smooth and frizz-free-looking hair, even in extremely humid areas (perfect purchase for those in Mumbai, Chennai, and the likes). It is a very lightweight, and pocket-friendly leave-in conditioner, that also nourishes your hair, and we recommend this one especially when you are going your sleek buns and other sleek hairstyles.

Nykaa Rating: 4.3/5

OGX is a brand that we have seen in many Western influencers' hair care routines. Their leave-in conditioner is infused with argon oil of morocco, and restores shine, softness, and strength in your hair. It is a very effective product, works like a charm, prevents frizz, and works beautifully for curly hair types too.

Nykaa Rating: 4.1/5

Fable & Mane brand has been just acquiring one milestone after another, and their hair oils carry many essential, and traditional ingredients that encapsulate the ingenuity and mastery of our mothers and grandmothers. Their Holiroots conditioner comes with the goodness of turmeric and coconut oil. It works great on taming the frizz and leave you with lustrous and manageable hair. The formation is completely sulphate- and paraben-free, and with 100% vegan ingredients. However, it is not for volume, so people with oily scalps should avoid this one.

Nykaa Rating: 4.4/5

We are obsessed with everything Sol de Janeiro, and their leave-in conditioner is certainly a part of our long list of love for it. This Joia milky leave-in conditioner controls frizz, helps with split ends, and also acts as a heat protector. it has notes of pistachio, and vanilla, which will give your shiny, and smooth hair, that smells amazing. The product is vegan, and cruelty-free, and we love this one for our curls especially.

Nykaa Rating: 3.5/5

Check out our list of the best leave-in conditioners here, along with the list of the best hair masks and hair oils.