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Regardless of your hair type, how you treat it at home – with clean treatments, masks, serums, and deep conditioners – can make a big difference to how it looks and feels. Even professional hairdressers can say: Garrett Markinson, Los Angeles hairstylist and founder of Valley Studio and clean hair line. FictionalNone of his clients, he notes, regularly performs scalp treatments at home. “I see a huge impact on the appearance and behavior of their hair,” he says. Whether you’re looking to fix styling damage with heat, increase shine and bounce, or balance your scalp for overall healthy hair, these are the home remedies everyone’s talking about – and that’s really helpful.
Markenson’s Botanical Scalp Therapy has become a thing of an internet sensation; He says he’s his best client and laughs that his (untreated) brother’s hair wasn’t as good as his. “We want to take care of the skin of our scalp, because over time, environmental stress and aging can weaken it, just as skin does anywhere on the body,” he says. “This can leave our hair looking dull, flat, and less lush.”
The world has gotten famous, and scalp treatments are suddenly popping up everywhere. At the same time, masks, oils, and conditioning treatments designed to leave hair more shiny, soft and manageable, are at least as strong as their salon counterparts, and there’s also a brush that can round off the salon head massage – heaven.
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This brush is everything
This flexible palm-sized brush from manta molds to the shape of your hand and scalp, creating less tension than a traditional brush, while its curved, forgiving bristles reduce obstructions. Manta founder Tim Bennington, a British hairdresser, made it for his wife when she was growing her hair again after an illness and anxiety was causing split ends. Use it to detangle hair in the shower, comb wet hair, or comb dry when it is dry. And guys love it, too – it feels really cool on the scalp.
Manta
hair brush
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Spritz Absolute Moisture
Smoothen frizz, detangle and protect your color with this leave-in treatment spray that is ultra-moisturizing and lightweight. Made with rahua, ungurahua, and morete oils plus organic mango sugars linked with protein – all grown in the wild, handcrafted, and sustainably sourced from the Amazon rainforest – it smells lovely from mango extracts and passion fruit. Sprinkle it on damp hair to instantly smoothen and soften; When your hair dries, expect hair that is bouncy, shiny, easy to style and healthy-looking.
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Water tangle removal
+ UV barrier
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Hair oil that changes everything
Light castor oil is magic, regardless of the texture of your hair. It deeply moisturizes, defines frizz and instantly smooths frizz, and it contains the same nutrients as traditional castor oil – it’s packed with antioxidants, omega, vitamin E, and protein – but feels silkier and more absorbent. Brilliantly multi-purpose (hair conditioner, hairdresser, nourishing skin care for both face and body), the founder is a woman who employs 90 percent of the employees in her home country of Haiti, where the company sustainably sorts the ingredients – and where castor oil has been loved for its hydrating benefits for skin and hair For generations.
Creole Essence
Black Haitian
Light castor oil
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Miracle mask twice a week
This is the hair mask the clean beauty space has been waiting for: a luxurious, salon-wide deep conditioner that leaves your hair nourished, healthy, and full of shine. With tsubaki seed oil for deep moisturizing and yuzu fruit extract to soften the complexion, it’s lightweight and smells great – that’s the signature scent of yuzu, lemongrass, and bergamot. To apply it, use a wide-tooth comb (like the one in Crown Affair Group) To distribute evenly. Leave it on for five to fifteen minutes – depending on how dry or damaged your hair is – in place or in addition to your regular conditioner.
The Crown Prince case
Rejuvenation mask
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Treat hair and scalp in one go
This ultra-soothing treatment is made with wonderful botanicals and oils straight from the Amazon. It is especially great for dry scalp: it is rich in Omega 9, and Rahua oil, valued by indigenous Amazonian women for centuries, moisturizes and strengthens; Palo Santo oil helps eliminate buildup and balance the scalp; Hemp oil calms and soothes. Massage into scalp and lengths, leave it on for fifteen minutes (or overnight) and rinse – your hair and scalp will look healthier, happier, shiny and bouncy.
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Founding Hair Blend
Scalp treatment
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Instant Shine & Volume shampoo
Our scalp and hair are our crown, and this unique whipped shampoo made with exfoliating pink Himalayan salt rich in minerals, nourishing cold-pressed moringa oil, and pure, unfiltered hip oil purifies and detoxifies in one go. This scrub cleanses hair and scalp from product build-up, dirt and oils, leaving both clean and fresh. The cleansing scent – rosemary, geranium, orange, and mint – subtly stays in the hair (and smells great as you wash it).
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G Tux Himalayan Salt
Scalp scrub shampoo
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Internet myth tonic
This refreshing serum protects, hydrates, and supports scalp health. Designed as a leave-on treatment, it’s infused with active ingredients like apple stem cells, lupine protein, rose and rosemary hydrates. Apply small drops to wet (clean or dirty) scalp, massage, and leave – leaving no residue behind. Use it daily for a healthy, nourished scalp.
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Cake repair
Tonic for the scalp
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the new, once a week Clarification
Designed to cleanse and detoxify the scalp, once a week this tonic works to dissolve build-up and excess oils as it gently hydrates. Blend of Extracts and Oils – Basil leaves support growth, health and shine, while baobab and moringa oils soothe, hydrate and nourish the scalp (all ingredients are cold-processed to maintain nutrient levels). Apply the tonic directly to your scalp, massage it – to distribute the product, energize the scalp, and feel great – leave it on for twenty minutes, and rinse it off before shampooing and conditioner. It smells like a light herbal scent, leaves the scalp refreshed and clean, and works beautifully with all hair types.
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Cold treated
Detoxify the scalp
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Gua Sha works for hair as well as skin
Use this exquisite handcrafted jade comb to massage invigorating gua sha into your scalp. Based on the ancient Chinese Goa Sha treatment – which involves smoothing a sculpted massager on the face or body – massaging with this comb looks just amazing (especially after using a tonic to detoxify a cold-treated scalp). Stimulating the scalp and relaxing the soul, it’s our new favorite daily ritual.
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Scalp comb Gua Sha
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