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The Best Treatment for Dry Scalp and Hair – 10 Products that Work!

By Jacqueline Samaroo

Are you trying to get rid of the annoying (and often recurring) symptoms of dry scalp? There is good news! Your perfect treatment for dry scalp awaits! You don’t have to put up with the itching, dry hair, irritation, and (ugh!) flakes.

There are plenty of over-the-counter treatments for dry scalp to give you the relief you are looking for.

Here are 10 dry scalp hair products that are designed to get rid of dry scalp symptoms. And, they actually do more than that! They go the extra mile, leaving you with healthier and healthier-looking hair.

Not sure if what you are experiencing is dandruff or dry scalp? That’s OK – the symptoms of dry scalp and dandruff are quite similar. Check out 8 Common Causes of Dry Scalp Plus Easy Ways to Tell It’s Not Dandruff.

If you prefer DIY dry scalp home remedies, we’ve got you covered, too! See Best Treatment for Dry Scalp – 5 DIY Remedies.

And, be sure to read How to Treat Dry Scalp – 6 Simple and Effective Lifestyle Changes for other ways to keep dry scalp away for good. 

10 Best Treatments for Dry Scalp and Hair

1.      Briogeo Scalp Revival Charcoal + Tea Tree Cooling Hydration Scalp Mask

What’s in it: Charcoal, tea tree oil, aloe vera, and hyaluronic acid

Charcoal cleanses your scalp while both aloe vera and hyaluronic acid draw moisture into the skin. Tea tree oil works to lock in the moisture and also gives a cooling effect that helps to soothe the irritation and itching of dry scalp.

Here’s a shoutout to another vegan, dry scalp hair product from Briogeo:

2.   Briogeo Scalp Revival Charcoal + Peppermint Oil Cooling Jelly Conditioner

Contains many of the same awesome ingredients found in the hydration scalp mask, above. Also, gets a boost from peppermint oil and menthol to counter the itchiness with their cooling effects (ah, sweet relief!)

 

 

 

 

3.      Dove DermaCare Scalp Dryness & Itch Relief Conditioner

What’s in it: Pyrithione zinc

With pyrithione zinc as the active ingredient, this treatment for dry scalp also serves as a dandruff treatment. Pyrithione zinc is proven to inhibit the growth of fungi, limiting the appearance of flakes that are a common symptom of dandruff.

Pyrithione zinc (and shea butter) can be found in Dove’s DermaCare dry scalp moisturizing shampoo, too!

 

4.      Kérastase Relaxing Scrub: Soothing Scrub for Dry Scalp

What’s in it: Jojoba oil, sweet orange peel powder, madecassoside, and vitamin B5

Its jojoba oil and powdered sweet orange peel provide exfoliating treatment for dry scalp patches. This soothing scrub also reduces dry scalp’s itching and irritation, thanks to the madecassoside in its formula.

While those other ingredients are hard at work, vitamin B5  helps out by combatting the dryness of dry scalp and providing nourishment for healthy hair growth.

5.      Head & Shoulders Supreme Soothe & Strengthen Shampoo and Conditioner

What’s in them: Pyrithione zinc, argan oil, and rose essence

This popular brand has become almost synonymous with anti-dandruff haircare products. The Supreme Smooth & Strengthen anti-dandruff and dry scalp shampoo and conditioner set contains antimicrobial pyrithione zinc and the nourishing goodness of argan oil.

The pH-balanced formula is safe to use on color-treated and chemically treated hair. It strengthens your hair at the root while leaving it with a light and refreshing rose scent.

If you like Head & Shoulders products and you’re looking specifically for how to treat dry scalp for Black hair, well… take a look at what’s up next!

6.   Head & Shoulders Royal Oils Instant Soothe Scalp Elixir

What’s in it: Pyrithione zinc, peppermint oil, castor oil, and menthol

Formulated with the textures of Black hair in mind, this scalp elixir is a soothing blend of anti-dandruff medication and cooling, beneficial oils.

 

 

 

7.      LivSo Moisturizing Lotion for Dry Scalp

What’s in it: Ceramides, shea butter, coconut oil, willow bark extract, and aloe vera.

You’ll be loving the dry scalp relief you get from this dermatologist-created scalp lotion. What else is great about it? It’s packed with plenty of healthy hair ingredients to nourish both your scalp and your strands. For example:

• Ceramides (natural lipid fats) help lock in moisture and boost elasticity.
• Coconut oil softens and strengthens your strands while its antioxidants protect your scalp.
• Willow bark extract exfoliates your scalp, getting rid of those pesky dry scalp flakes.

Plus the formula is lightweight and absorbs readily, so there’s no need to worry about it weighing down your curls!

8.      Mizani Scalp Care Shampoo

What’s in it: Pyrithione zinc, glycerin, and peppermint oil, 

Is your hair coarse or fine? Wavy, coily, kinky, or curly? Doesn’t matter! This treatment for dry scalp works with all kinds of hair. It’s also safe to use on color-treated hair. Get anti-dandruff action from its pyrithione zinc while you enjoy the cooling sensation of its peppermint oil.

A boost of moisture also comes from the glycerin it contains. Glycerin is a proven and much-used humectant – it draws moisture into the skin, including the skin of the scalp.

Get even greater benefits from this treatment for dry scalp by using other dry scalp hair products in the Mizani Scalp Care Line. Wanna shine a light right here on the line’s scalp lotion!

9. Mizani Scalp Care Calming Scalp Lotion

What’s in it:  Aloe vera, avocado oil, and eucalyptus oil

Put a stop to the itch-scratch-flakes cycle with this calming scalp lotion from Mizani. Its specifically designed as an option for how to treat dry scalp for Black hair. The nozzle is also well-suited for getting the lotion in-between braids and other protective styles.

 

 

10.      MoroccanOil Dry Scalp Treatment

What’s in it: Argan oil, salicylic acid, and geranium oil

If you happen to be one of this brand’s many diehard fans, then you might say we saved the best for last. The salicylic acid in this treatment for dry scalp gently exfoliates flakes from your scalp. At the same time, the geranium oil gets to work soothing your scalp and helping to combat dryness.

Argan oil is perhaps its most well-known ingredient among the natural-hair crowd. We love how it’s packed full of antioxidants to both protect and nourish the scalp.

 

Has dry scalp ever been an issue for you? How do you treat it? Share!

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There are fall dresses, and then there are extra-long fall dresses, and no — these two categories were not created equally. Shorter dresses are ideal for showing off your autumn-ready, knee-high leather boots. A maxi dress, on the other hand, brings the drama with floor-sweeping hems that can keep you covered as temperatures drop. And at the end of the day, more dress simply means more to love about the style, be it of the sweater, prairie, or trench variety.

If you're looking for the perfect fall dress that goes the extra mile, we've got you covered. Since there are thousands of options out there and only so many weeks till fall, we went to the experts. And by that, we mean the legions of savvy cyber shoppers who are doing the hard work for us all by leaving their honest ratings and reviews far and wide across our go-to retailers. Think Nordstrom, Madewell, Revolve, and more... wherever you usually go to scoop up a best-selling frock, there's a trail of opinions leading you to the top pick of the lot. Ahead, we've rounded up 12 floor-sweeping styles that have customers raving. Once you find your perfect dress, you'll bet set for whatever comes your way without any unnecessary chill.

Welcome to Hype Machine, our hit-list of the top reviewed products across the web — according to a crowd of die-hard shoppers. Call this your 4-star & up only club, with entry granted by our devoted-to-the-goods shop editors.

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While COVID-19 has changed the scope of award shows, possibly forever, we're slowing starting to see the entertainment industry reemerge. It's great to see vaccinated celebrities getting dressed up again, especially when these events highlight stars like Rodriguez who, in addition to being talented, use their personal platform to spotlight underrepresented communities.

Ahead, an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how makeup artist Adam Breuchaud prepped Rodriguez for her legendary night.

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Engineer Mark Bryan was in college the first time he put on a pair of heels. Initially, it was a joke; he was dating a woman who, in heels, was taller than he was, and so he tried on a pair to give himself a boost, too. But, he found that there was nothing funny about how he felt in them. “I was very comfortable wearing them,” he told Refinery29. So much so that, five years ago, Bryan started wearing heels full-time. Then came the skirts. “The skirt is just an extension of, basically, being able to show off the heels a bit more,” he said. 

Today, Bryan boasts over 500,000 followers on Instagram, where he documents his daily outfits, which often include a shirt-and-tie combo with pencil skirts and pumps. “I never bother about what people think because to me I’m not doing anything wrong,” he said. 

It seems that 2021 agrees with Bryan. This year, global fashion search site Lyst reported that a Thom Browne menswear skirt was one of the top-searched items of 2021, marking the first time the silhouette has been on the site’s top trends for men. Celebrities like Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, Billy Porter, Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Diddy, and Lil Nas X have chosen skirts on the red carpet and in music videos. Just last week, comedian Pete Davidson showed up to the 2021 Met Gala in a Thom Browne dress that he wore with a blazer and sunglasses. And while many designers continue to show men’s and women’s lines on separate runways, some have started to erase gender divisions, with brands like Versace and Balenciaga merging their womenswear and menswear in one collection. 

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Despite its recent popularity, skirts in men’s fashion aren’t a new phenomenon. According to Jo Paoletti, an independent scholar focused on the history of dress in the United States, it was customary for European men to wear skirts before the 14th century, when they started wearing pants for ease of horse-riding. And, up until the 19th century, Paoletti said that young American boys wore skirts until they were old enough for trousers. According to her, this is how the skirt became “not only associated with being [a woman] but with being young or not being a grown man.” 

While traditionally menswear-inspired trends are commonplace within womenswear today, society is less accepting of men wearing skirts and dresses. “It’s okay for women to adopt men’s clothing, and that has to do with the power and status difference of masculinity and femininity,” said Paoletti. “For a man to adopt something that’s feminine is seen as giving up his power.”

Jorge Dugan, a Netherlands-based fashion designer, has worn skirts since 2019. He likens the current fight for men to wear skirts to Western feminists in the 19th and 20th century who saw pants — called bloomers — as a key symbol of women’s rights. From suffragist Elizabeth Miller’s early version of pants-like skirts in 1851 and Coco Chanel’s menswear-inspired clothing to the World War II era and the women’s rights movement of the 1970s, women have historically fought for the right to wear a simple pair of pants (until the 1990s, it was forbidden for women to wear pants in Congress). “Society, in general, was not ready for new things,” said Dugan. “But thanks to those women [back then] who decided to wear pants, now it’s normal.”

Prior to mainstream fashion’s embrace of gender fluidity that has made it so straight cis men like Styles, Machine Gun Kelly, and Lil Nas X wear skirts in magazines and red carpets, the LGBTQ+ community has pushed to dispel the gender norms put on clothes. Yet, it’s often cisgender men who get celebrated for bending them in public. Bryan — who identifies as a cisgender, heterosexual man — said he gets messages from the LGBTQ+ community, who want to talk about his privilege. Dugan, who identifies as queer, agreed. “Heterosexual men, famous or not, get applauded, while gay men are oppressed for doing the same.” 

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Not only are cis men celebrated, but they are also not in danger for challenging gender boundaries. Bryan said that his privilege in wearing skirts as a cisgender, heterosexual man speaks volumes about what’s really behind the men-in-skirts taboo: “I don’t think they are discriminating against you by what you’re wearing, they’re discriminating against you about your sexual orientation.”

“Thanks to heterosexual men in skirts, other heterosexual men can start seeing skirts as normal,” said Dugan, who’s also contributing to this mission through his blog Jorge Con Falda, where he documents his skirt-clad outfits and will soon start selling his own line. “Every man should wear skirts at least once in their life,” he said. 

As a non-binary person, George Tyrone is also on a mission to use social media to confront the taboos around non-femme people wearing skirts. “It’s just a piece of fabric and it shouldn’t matter so much,” said Tyrone. Originally from Cameroon, they grew up thinking that skirts on men were normal. According to them, it’s traditional in their southwestern Cameroon tribe, as well nearby communities, for men to wear a cloth tied around their waist with a shirt. 

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But it wasn’t until Tyrone, who now lives in London, tried on a kilt, a customary skirt from the Scottish Highlands, to attend a friend’s party that they asked themselves: “Why is a fabric in this particular form only limited to women on a daily basis?” They first started wearing skirts at home, but finally sported them out a few years ago. Today, they’re building a community on TikTok, dedicated to stripping fashion’s gender constructs by showing off their skirt-based outfits. They say they’ve slowly realized that skirts on men only become taboo through the Western gaze. 

“In so many parts of Africa and Asia, it’s normal for men to wear just a gown,” they said, referring to the East African kanga and the Southeast Asian sarong. “A lot of the clothing is not even gender-specific, it’s just what people wear.” Paoletti agrees. She points to the use of lungis, a traditional skirt worn by men in the southern part of India. Other examples include the lavalava, a rectangular wrap-around skirt worn by Polynesians, and the longyi, a tubular skirt worn by both men and women in Myanmar.

While other people may wear skirts to express their identity or culture, for Tyrone, the decision to wear a skirt everyday is still rooted in their belief that clothes have no gender. “What I wear is not because I’m non-binary,” they said. “It’s because it’s just what I like.”

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There’s something about a full moon in Pisces that always feels like it comes right on time. No matter how lost you are in your calendar right now, slogging through meeting after meeting, task after task, Virgo season begs for the nearness of a heavenly body collecting light just to pour it back out over a crisp night. As the cool night air slips in under the comfort of our light blankets and transitional jackets, we’re reminded that discomfort is simply information, and that it can lead to understanding and gentle release. There’s something about night that’s gentle underneath our wariness, like black silk draped over buildings and mountains, an eyelid sinking over an eye. 

Tonight’s full moon touches Neptune and swims past it, rippling the sky with dreamy waves and countless possibilities. Possibility is a powerful word tonight, a word like a door. Pisces’ traditional ruler, Jupiter, tugs us toward that door, as inviting and encouraging as a flashing neon sign. Jupiter loves possibility, refutes limits, especially the kind that have yet to be tested… or re-tested for that matter. While the full moon invites us in to rest our eyes, Mercury in Libra makes a trine to Jupiter in Aquarius, reminding us that there’s always more to know, more to learn, more ways to make the dots connect. 

Mercury in Libra seeks perspective by appealing to many sides,  perhaps looking as if they speak with a forked tongue. But Mercury in Libra is also peace-seeking. Mercury asks: What can it mean to understand another person? What is justice? What is worth fighting for? And, Jupiter receives these questions offering an answer and a challenge: It means many things. It doesn’t mean what you think it does; the meaning changes, you change the meaning. What can you do with an answer like that but take it as a challenge? A dare to expand your imagination, to believe in what was once unimaginable, to enrich yourself with possibility.

Dreams are part of that — of course they are — and Pisces people know that relationships can be built with your dreams, that dreams can be trusted. Daydreams and long-term visions, yes, but also the dreams that your night-self drips like a percolator. What if, before you go to sleep, you surround yourself with the books of Pisces poets like Aricka Foreman and soak yourself in the magic of their words? “And won’t you try to ride me into your horizon of longing? Until the greatness of me is swallowed up by the receding light?” What if tonight you lay a notebook by your bed and reach for it first thing upon stirring? Let your waking self drink deep from the night’s cup.

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There are two things I quickly learned upon taking on this challenge: 1) $25 in beauty products can go a lot of different ways. After perusing all the options in the CVS beauty aisles, I paid with my Venmo QR code and walked out of the store with three colorful items — a coppery eyeshadow palette, a creamy coral lipstick, and a baby-pink matte lipstick.

2.) Limitations, I learned, promote creativity. Only able to work with three products, I found myself innovating way more than I normally would have if I had access to every item in my makeup bag. From using lipstick as blush to brown eyeshadow for faux freckles, I resorted to a few tricks that I had never tried before, and I was pleasantly surprised at the results — and range of the final looks.

See how it all went down in the slides ahead. Plus, if you're feeling inspired to try out this challenge for yourself, we've got a pro tip: Shop your beauty haul in-store at CVS using the PayPal or Venmo QR code payment feature and get $10 cash back on your first purchase.

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