Best hair oils for bleached hair to breathe life back into damaged locks

If you’ve bleached or dyed your hair in the past, you’re almost definitely familiar with the Olaplex brand. But don’t just restrict yourself to the smaller numbered bottles. The Olaplex No.7 Bonding Oil is a firm contender when it comes to fixing your strands after too much bleach. Acting as the final step in your reparative hair care routine, it’s infused with the brand’s patented Olaplex Bond Building Technology and also offers heat protection up to 232°C.

JOICO’s Blonde Life Brilliant Glow Brightening Oil was designed specifically with blonde hair in mind and brings together everything you need to restore your locks’ smoothness and shine. Powered by arginine, a naturally occurring amino acid, the formula works to restore each strand’s strength, while monoi oil gives antioxidant power, defending the hair against environmental aggressors. And don’t be concerned if you’re a lighter blonde: this oil is stain-free.

Bleached hair can suffer from breakage, especially if you get a little too dye-happy on the regular. This BondiBoost Super Shine Strength Oil comes enriched with argan oil (rich in essential fatty acids including Omega-3, Omega-6 + Omega-9) to penetrate deeply into each hair strand to strengthen and replenish its natural lipid content for healthier and stronger strands.

It also champions jojoba oil, which delivers essential hydration to moisture-starved strands, increasing manageability and restoring brilliance for more youthful, glossy locks.

OSMO Berber Oil is one of the most luxurious hair oils for bleached hair, bringing together all of the key ingredients necessary for soft, smooth locks. A rich blend of avocado, coconut and argan oils with vitamin E, it was designed to help repair and restore dry and damaged hair and was specially formulated to help reduce drying time with UV filters. Expect glossy locks each and every time you apply.

Delivering all-in-one care to lacklustre hair, this Kérastase Elixir Ultime L’Original Hair Oil is a must-have in your hair care routine if you’re someone who regularly reaches for the bleach. A multi-benefit hair oil, it works as a primer, finisher or refresher, smoothing the appearance of split ends, while providing heat protection up to 230°C.

A best-selling product for a good reason, it comes infused with a floral-woody fragrance of violet leaf, freesia, mandarin and musk, leaving your hair not only looking good but smelling great too.

While the idea of putting honey on your locks might not initially sound like a sensible one, you’ll likely have a change of heart once you’ve reaped the benefits of this Honey Infused Hair Oil from Gisou.

Inspired by the founder’s mother’s secret honey-infused hair oil recipe, the formula promises to repair hair from the inside out, using honey to maintain your mane’s natural moisture levels.

Moisturising but never greasy, this delicate oil spotlights honey as an effective humectant that not only absorbs and holds hydration within your strands but also helps to actually rebuild and repair damaged locks at the cuticle. Use as a styling product or overnight as a treatment.

Briogeo caters to everyone, focusing on texture when it comes to hair care - and this Don’t Despair, Repair! Strengthening Treatment Hair Oil was designed to heal and nourish stressed-out strands across the spectrum of hair types.

This intensive weekly treatment combines a two-part formula that utilises a unique set of natural and vegan ingredients, like the Proprietary Rice Protein Complex, which undoes existing damage and prevents further from taking place, and the fatty acid-rich rosehip oil, which not only injects moisture but also helps to reduce the appearance of split ends for an all-over more glossy mane.

If Jonathan Van Ness’s glossy mane is anything to go by, the JVN Hair Nourishing Shine Drops is a top choice for beautiful-looking locks. This vegan hair treatment works to minimise frizz and encourage smoothness and shine and can be used during a blow dry for added protection and shine, or on dry hair as a finishing oil for instant shine, weightless hydration and long-term hair health. It contains meadowfoam to lock in moisture and add instant gloss and shine as well as hemisqualane to improve hair health and strength rapidly and over time.

Enriched with argan oil and sea buckthorn oil, the SACHAJUAN Intensive Hair Oil is a weightless formula that quickly absorbs into the hair and heals from within. With a nourishing blend that also includes sunflower seed oil and rosemary leaf extract, it helps to promote strength and shine, whilst repairing and replenishing weak and dull hair. Once applied, it settles into the strands almost instantly, leaving you free to style as you wish.

Not all hair oils have to set you back a fortune and the OGX Damage Remedy+ Coconut Miracle Oil Extra Strength Penetrating Oil does the trick without costing an arm and a leg. Packing a powerful punch when it comes to transforming dry damaged hair into silky shiny perfection, this hair oil blends coconut oil, vanilla bean extract and the essence of Tiare to leave hair feeling fairytale-soft and shiny.