We’ve been spoiled by a season of sunshine, saltwater, heat styling, and pool days. Now, it’s safe to say your hair deserves a little extra love. Summer may be great for making memories, but it can be harsh on your strands. Everything from dryness to dullness and damage is common around this time of year, but with the right self-care routine, you can restore condition and refresh your colour with ease. Below, we’re detailing a few of our top tips and our favorite product picks to care for your post-summer hair.
The Best Post-Summer Masques & Treatments
Step 1: Rehydrate
Between chlorine, UV exposure, and constant styling, hair tends to end the summer feeling extra dry. Adding a targeted hair masque to deliver hydration without weighing the hair down is essential.
Our Pick: E7 Anti-Frizz Hair Mask
Perfect For: Dry, frizz-prone hair in need of moisture and manageability.
Infused with Cupuaçu Butter, nurturing oils, and protective antioxidants, this rich yet lightweight masque restores moisture and tames frizz, without weighing the hair down. Plus, it helps protect your colour, leaving hair smoother, shinier and more manageable.
How to Use: Apply to clean, damp hair from ends to roots. Comb through with fingers or a wide-tooth comb, leave on for 3–5 minutes, then rinse.
Step 2: Repair Damage
Our Pick: Reparative Treatment Masque
Perfect For: Hair that’s been weakened by heat, protein depletion or is showing signs of breakage.
If your hair is feeling especially depleted—looking dull, feeling brittle—you’ll need more than just hydration. You need repair.
Add this intensive masque to your post-summer routine to restore protein-depleted, damaged hair with a blend of multi-weight plant proteins to fortify strands, Pea Peptide to strengthen, and Plant-Based Keratin to restore depleted proteins. Plus, it contains Vitamin B5 and Aloxxi’s ColourCare Complex to moisturize, seal in colour and protect against UVA/UVB rays.
How to Use: After washing with Reparative Shampoo, add this into your routine once a week and then rinse.
Step 3: Restore
Masques are ideal for restoring the condition of the hair. And following this, you’ll need a leave-in to protect. This step is ideal to maintain softness, prevent frizz, and prep hair for styling.
Our Pick: E7 Leave-In Conditioning Cream
Perfect For: All hair types, especially dry, unruly hair looking for moisture, softness, and frizz control.
This weightless leave-in conditioning cream is ideal for daily detangling, frizz control and moisture balance. Formulated with Cupuaçu Butter and protective antioxidants, it helps restore elasticity, protect colour, and smooth unruly strands.
How to Use: Apply to clean, damp hair, work through evenly, and style as usual. Do not rinse.
Step 4: Protect
Split ends can be especially frustrating after months of UV exposure and excess styling. If you’re seeing breakage at the ends, a trim helps—but, so does a targeted treatment that nourishes and protects your strands between salon visits.
Our Pick: Split Ends Mend
Perfect For: Split ends, heat damage, and anyone looking to extend the time between trims.
Clinically proven to visibly reduce split ends by 88%, this serum smooths and strengthens broken and fragile hair while also protecting against future breakage. Formulated with Advanced Recovery Technology, which includes peptides, amino acids, and conditioning agents, it nourishes and protects colour from UV rays without weighing the hair down.
How to Use: Apply to towel-dried hair, focusing on mid-lengths and ends. Blow-dry and style as usual. You can also smooth a small amount over dry hair to smooth and finish.
Bonus Step: Refresh Colour While You Condition
If you colour your hair—whether it’s a grey retouch, highlights or gloss—by the end of summer, it’s only natural that your shade looks a bit faded. Instead of living with the muted tones between appointments, add a pigmented conditioning masque to refresh tone while deeply conditioning your hair.
Our Pick: INSTABOOST Conditioning Colour Masques
Perfect For: Colour-treated hair or anyone who wants to refresh their colour between appointments.
INSTABOOST instantly boosts colour between appointments. Formulated with CDP Complex to Condition, Deposit, and Protect, these masques are a quick and effective way to refresh colour and add shine with nourishing properties. Plus, since each use is cumulative, you can build your tone or keep it soft and subtle depending on how often you use it.
How to Use: After shampooing, apply in place of conditioner, leave on for 3–5 minutes, and rinse.
