If your hair damage is showing up at the scalp in the form of itchiness, flakiness or excess oil, this might be the hair oil for you. It focuses on restoring balance at the root, using sunflower seed oil to calm irritation and reduce visible dandruff. At the same time, shea nut oil helps to nourish the lengths, soften dryness and improve overall hair texture. The formula is lightweight and non-greasy and fits seamlessly with your weekly haircare routine. Use it consistently to create a healthier scalp environment and keep the frizz and dryness in check.

If your scalp has been itchy and flaky lately, you need to bring this one home, pronto. Sunflower seed oil is the hero ingredient of this formula and helps soothe itching and scaling while also targeting excess sebum and dandruff. It’s also got shea nut oil in the mix to soften dry strands, so that your lengths get some loving too. Plus, it’s lightweight and non-greasy, making it an easy pick even on days when you don’t want hair oiling to derail your entire schedule.

A more wallet-friendly option that doesn’t skimp on performance, this hair oil by Moxie Beauty deals with concerns like breakage and brittleness. It features ingredients known to reduce protein loss while improving softness and flexibility in hair strands like almond, avocado and cocoa oils. The texture is light and non-sticky, so it absorbs easily and fits without fuss in your usual haircare routine.

The worst thing you can do to brittle, damaged hair is trying to smooth it out with heat styling in an effort to cover it up. Sure, a straightener can make your strands look sleeker, but without strengthening them first, you’re only just masking the problem—and possibly even making it worse. What you truly need is a strengthening hair oil formula like this one from Moxie Beauty, which offers more than a temporary fix. Formulated with cocoa, almond and avocado oils, it helps reduce protein loss, improve flexibility and nourish fragile strands, making them less prone to breakage.

This formulation by L’Occitane takes a slightly more skincare-inspired approach to hair repair. Formulated with plant-based ceramides, it focuses on strengthening the hair’s barrier, which is often compromised when strands are dry, overprocessed or prone to split ends. A blend of sweet almond, castor and sunflower oils works to replenish moisture, while carrot root extract helps bring back softness and shine. If you’re looking for a hair oil for split ends, this is a great pick.

This one from L'Occitane is quite the overachiever. It goes beyond simply nourishing the scalp and strands, tackling everything from frizz and dullness to dryness and split ends. Its blend of sweet almond, castor and soybean oils helps add moisture to your hair, and plant-based ceramides focus on strengthening the hair and smoothening damaged cuticles. The formula also features sunflower seed oil and extract to help protect against oxidative stress caused by environmental aggressors. Really, what can’t it do?

When in doubt, gift him something he already knows how to use. This Ayurvedic hair oil from Forest Essentials blends coconut oil, black sesame oil and hibiscus to nourish the scalp and repair damaged hair. It’s a thoughtful pick for dads who already oil their hair regularly, but could use a richer formulation to make the ritual even more restorative than before.

This Ayurvedic formula from Forest Essentials brings together traditional ingredients that have been used in households for many generations to support healthy hair. The star ingredient here is hibiscus, known in Ayurveda for its ability to promote hair growth, combat hairfall and delay premature greying. Coconut oil further moisturises and soothes the scalp, and black sesame oil deeply nourishes the roots and strands. Plus, it smells amazing.

A modern take on the time-tested champi oil, this Inde Wild hair oil is a good meeting point between ancient wisdom and contemporary science. It combines over 16 Ayurvedic actives, including rosemary, bhringraj and hibiscus, with clinically tested haircare ingredients such as Redensyl and Procapil to target hairfall and support scalp health. If you’re struggling with hairfall, thinning or dandruff, this is the formula I’d bet on.

You might’ve heard of onion juice as a DIY remedy for hairfall, but have you ever considered adding onion oil to your haircare routine? If not, now’s the time. This hair oil from Brillare puts this popular ingredient front and centre. Formulated with onion oil, which is believed to help in hair strengthening, it also contains olive and soybean oils to nourish the scalp and help prevent moisture loss.

Every now and then, your scalp benefits from a complete reset, especially after weeks and months of product buildup and heat styling. If yours has been feeling dry, irritated or out of balance, this Ayurvedic formula from Kama Ayurveda might help. With bringaraj extract at its heart, the hair oil focuses on restoring scalp balance, soothing dryness and nourishing the roots. It also helps strengthen strands from root to tip and supports healthy hair growth, making it a perfect fit for your pre-festive haircare prep.

“Sticking to a regular hair wash routine is just not happening for me—with meetings, deadlines and trying to squeeze in workouts, there’s barely any time for self-care,” Anusha from the editorial team says. “My hair gets greasy fast; and that’s where this treatment oil comes in. Ever since I started using it, I haven’t felt the need to wash my hair every other day. It keeps the oil in check, doesn’t weigh my hair down and actually makes it look shiny and healthy. Total game-changer.”

Yvonne Monterio, Studio  

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“I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve restocked this. Keeping up with regular washes is hard—between meetings, deadlines and workouts there’s barely time for hair care. My hair gets greasy fast, so I reach for this treatment oil. Since I started using it I don’t feel the need to wash every other day. It controls oil, feels lightweight and leaves my hair shiny and healthy. Total game changer.”

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FYI: A grease-prone scalp can benefit from hair oil too. But you’ve got to choose a formula specifically designed to address excess oil production rather than one that adds more moisture, like this one from Moroccanoil. It contains ginger root oil to stimulate the scalp and restore its balance, argan oil to provide nourishment and lavender oil to help soothe the scalp.

Not all hair oils are formulated with extracts and essential oils. This Hibiscus Monkey hair oil takes a different approach, using fresh, handpicked hibiscus flowers and coconut milk oil instead of concentrated extracts. The 100% natural formula counts on hibiscus to help in stimulating the scalp and support healthier-looking hair growth and coconut milk oil to nourish dry strands and reduce breakage and frizz.