New York-based Bumble and Bumble started life with only two salons in the city and now boasts a high-quality range of products for all hair types. Its surf spray promises to replicate the effects of spending a day on a warm and windy coastline – tousled, textured hair, with a matt finish. On dry hair, apply the Davines Texturizing Dustto give volume at the roots. Explore the Davines More Inside collection. Courtesy of OGX Best sea salt spray for affordability: OGX Moroccan Hair Texturizing Sea Salt Spray Price: There are some really cheap sea salt sprays and some really expensive ones. Choose based on your budget and your preferred brands.

Sea salt spray is great, but the reason it’s so effective is because of the drying quality of the salt. The danger of using too much is that the hair can feel dehydrated. To counterbalance the salt, Verb’s sea salt spray is infused with quinoa protein to help maintain the hair’s softness. Sunflower seed extract also provides UV protection, making this a great choice for a beach holiday. Good news if you just can’t quit pomade: Fatboy Hair makes a sea salt-infused pomade that will give you a little extra control over your beachy style. It features sea kelp, algae, coconut oil, and shea butter for moisture and shine to go with that fresh-from-the-beach look. Since it’s a lightweight cream, it won’t weigh your hair down or leave it feeling greasy, either. This salt spray—like the rest of Rizos Curls products—were formulated by someone with curly hair (hi, founder Julissa Prado) for people with curly hair, meaning it was created with dry hair in mind. The spray is rich in hydrating aloe vera juice and moisture-boosting humectants (see: glycerin, propanediol, and polyglutamic acid) to help offset the drying effects of sea salt. When you want major beach-y, piece-y texture, you turn to this best-selling sea-salt spray from Not Your Mother’s, which Cosmo beauty editor Beth Gillette describes as “very no-nonsense” in the ~salty~ department. “It sprays out in a super-fine mist, so you can really load it up on denser hair if you want, whereas I can just lightly mist it onto my damp hair, air-dry it, and then add some waves with a three-barrel waver or put my hair into braids,” says Gillette after testing. “I like that it gives me a little grit so my hair isn't so silky.”

How To Use Sea Salt Spray

If your style is a bit more sculpted and structured like a quiff, for instance then spritz with sea salt straight out of the shower, work it through from root to tip (it’s in the roots where you’ll get that lovely quiffy volume), dry your hair into your preferred style and finish with your paste or clay of choice. Spray onto damp or dry hair to give body or to dry hair to increase the volume and the matte effect.

Sea salt spray is exactly what it sounds like: a spray that contains sea salt. The salt absorbs the oils in your hair (just like it does in the sea) and gives more texture and volume. Yes, salt also can dehydrate your hair and scalp but sea salt sprays contain conditioning ingredients to help counteract that. That said, it’s still best not to overdo it. How do I use sea salt spray? Now simply combine the ingredients into a spray bottle and shake before use as the ingredients can settle. Hair products can be confusing to navigate — do you need hair paste? Hairspray? Hair gel? Hair paste hits a magical middle ground between a hair gel and a hairspray. You can apply it strategically like spray without losing hold anytime something touches your hair. It also has the long-lasting strength of a gel without getting hard and crunchy. Paste is the best option to keep your hair's natural texture and allow it to move around a bit throughout the day. A good paste allows you to tweak your style anytime you catch yourself in a mirror and see that something is just a little off, because if we're being honest that happens to all of us.The result? A sea-salt spray that's a tiny bit less harsh for daily use (though, if you’ve got curls, you’ll still want to load up on deep conditioner to keep them healthy). And, as an added feel-good bonus, the formula is made with 96 percent naturally derived and organic ingredients, because why not? Straight to the point with this sea salt spray from Davines. While most products excel on wet hair, this sea salt spray works on both wet or dry hair and the slow release of the ingredients means that the hair is moisturised and won’t dry out too much. It’s a product with fewer chemicals, paraben-free with a subtle beachy scent. Davines Sea Salt Spray gets your hair beach style ready with just a few sprays. Davines is famous for making excellent hair products that are made to have no damaging effect on our planet. They make true eco friendly products for curly hair as its made in a 100% carbon neutral way from 100% sustainable ingredients. Benefits: Davines is one of my favorite sustainable beauty brands that was doing eco-friendly long before it was ~cool~. Not only is the Italian-born brand B Corp certified and the recipient of the “ Best for the Environment” award, but its products are legit freakin’ good (like, I’ve spent my own money on them since high school, when I very much couldn’t afford them). This best-selling salt spray uses three types of salt to really, truly make your hair feel like it got soaked in the ocean, and it’s also one of the saltiest formulas we tried from this list. If you were to combine a lightweight leave-in conditioner with a sea-salt spray, you’d get this formula from Briogeo. The tropical-scented spray is surprisingly hydrating for a texturizer, thanks to its mix of aloe leaf juice, glycerin, panthenol, and coconut sugar (yup, sugar—not salt) that help add “some much-needed moisture to your hair, while also keeping that beachy, matte texture,” says tester (and Cosmo beauty editor) Beth Gillette. “I feel like this would be especially good for spraying on after swimming in the ocean or a pool, when your hair feels like straw and you don’t have time to shower,” she notes.