Best shampoos for fine hair to boost volume

If you have already lived through 80s Big Hair once, you might feel inclined to steer clear of volumising shampoos. However, in the case of Oribe’s Shampoo for Magnificent Volume, this would be a mistake.

The delicious-smelling shampoo contains an intriguing blend of watermelon, lychee and edelweiss flower. Alongside the accompanying conditioner, it leaves hair smooth and shiny and with a resilient bounce thanks to keratin bodybuilding polymers.

Amber and moringa seed extract are known for their antioxidant hair-strengthening properties, while rice bran oil detangles. It is more expensive than your average shampoo - but can you really put a price on a bouncy bombshell blowout?

To achieve that enviable seemingly effortless French girl style, call on none other than legendary Parisian haircare label Leonor Greyl - a pioneering brand that has been offering professional-level products since 1968.

This shampoo is designed to make fine hair feel healthier from the very first wash. It is powered by brown seaweed extract, alaria seedwear extract and spiruline extract that combine to provide a vitamin-rich, conditioning and strengthening formula, while also offering an effective clean. You won’t be able to stop stroking your silky strands.

You may best know Viviscal for its game-changing supplements but did you know the brand offered haircare too? Recommended by hairstylists, the label opts for the same growth-enhancing ingredients in its product line-up as in the dietary add-ons so that they can work in tandem to give you the enviable thicker and fuller locks of your dreams. You will find biotin, keratin and zinc contained within as well as the label’s phytonutrient-rich Ana:Tel complex. Hair cycles take around three months, and after that time you will notice that the hair that has grown in this time is stronger, healthier and there’s greater density compared to the ends.

This shampoo from celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai’s eponymous range is designed to plump up the individual strands for thicker, more voluminous tresses. It is enriched with the likes of green coconut water to transform limp locks in an instant as well as rosemary leaf extract and a trademarked Phytenssence complex to stimulate and strengthen the hair respectively. This also forms a shield against external aggressors that could be the cause of the fine or thinning hair or be exacerbating the situation.

In Philip Kingsley’s famed haircare collection, there is a range to suit all hair types, and the same runs true for those with fine hair. As the name suggests, this is all about injecting body and bounce to the strands with a weightless formula. If you find you’re needing to constantly wash your thin hair, you are in need of a shampoo that will offer body without causing it to get oily in order to minimise that daily chore - and this may be exactly what you’re looking for. Natural cellulose alongside keratin proteins plumps and strengthens the strands, while removing excess build-up and controlling those pesky flyaways.

Not only will OUAI’s shampoo make a stylish addition to your shower shelf, but it is packed with nourishing ingredients and a beautiful fragrance to match. The sophisticated bottle is only where the magic begins. The formula has been created to encourage shine and bounce in equal measure. It is infused with hydrolysed keratin and biotin to fortify the stands as well as hemp seed extract and chia seed oil that boost moisture levels. Counteracting frizz and without weighing down your locks, it also imparts the subtle aroma of peony, magnolia, jasmine and musk that you’ll catch whiffs of throughout the day.

The Nue Co is likely best known for its supplements (and its gut health offering has already had our seal of approval) but don’t sleep on its hair collection. The latter is evolving with an expansion of its hugely popular SUPA_THICK range that already includes a supplement for hair growth and scalp treatment to counteract shedding.

The new launches come in the form of a shampoo and conditioner that work together to balance the scalp’s microbiome, strengthen strands and reduce breakage.

The gently foaming formulas do so with a coconut derivative rather than traditional SLS, while there’s also apple cider vinegar, amino acids, vitamin B5, red algae and oat oil extract that combine to protect and fortify.

Founder Jules Miller explains, “Using efficacious actives on your scalp is a health ritual rather than a vehicle to simply clean your hair. Having used hundreds in my time, I have never come across a clean formula that creates such a luxurious foam, truly cleans, builds volume without weighing the hair down…. whilst actively protecting and restoring the scalp microbiome and therefore encouraging hair-growth”.

In a consumer trial, 95 per cent reported thicker, healthier hair just after use, while 86 per cent felt their hair was stronger and healthier after 30 days of use.

Efficacious products no nasties included is transparent beauty label R+Co’s MO. The haircare label will make a bombshell blowout achievable with its voluminising shampoo that boosts fine and flat hair types so that lasting styles will actually be in your tresses’ future. The ingredient line-up reads like a dream combination for the strands; biotin, pro vitamin B5 and coconut oil take a starring role in aiding hair’s health. It is also scented with an aroma that the brand calls Dark Waves that has notes of cardamom, pineapple, tangerine, lavender, bamboo and blonde woods. Free from parabens, sulphates, and petrlatum.

Give your hair the oomph it has been sorely missing with Virtue. The innovative label has its signature Alpha Keratin 60ku protein as the basis of its products that mimics the keratin found naturally in hair, thereby rebuilding and filling damage strands.

Fine hair types will appreciate that this is all possible without weighing down the hair that would otherwise leave it more limp and lifeless than before. As your shampoo ritual, it works to dissolve oil and impurities, plump and creates volume that lasts throughout the day.

Whether it’s from colouring or excessive heat, fine hair types will see lifestyle and chemical intervention causes their hair to feel flat and dull. Enter the Super Healthy Hair Daily Strengthening Shampoo from Beauty Pie. Bouncy beach waves, or princess curls, no matter the style you opt for, this will be the first step in achieving lasting looks where the use of peptides and amino acids strengthen and add volume without causing build-up that will weigh the hair down.

The hi-tech ingredient line-up includes the label’s array of trademarked complexes, from the quinoa-derived Colourplus Amino Acids that gives staying power to fresh from the salon colour and the Lustreplex Shine Enhance that provides frizz-free lustre, to the PerfectHair Peptides that shield against environmental damage, give XXL appeal and smooth strands.

This is the kind of brand and product that you’ll be happy to make space for in your shower rituals. Science-backed haircare label K18 is named after the innovating peptide at the centre of the products (K18Peptide). The brand is likely best known for its Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask that has been lauded by beauty editors for its ability to strengthen strands, and this shampoo will further enhance its effects.

As part of your frequent hair washing routine, you are treating your tresses to a really thorough clean, all without stripping its natural oils. At the same time, it is encouraging added moisture to reach the strands, leaving stronger, heathier hair in its wake. This is achieved through the optimised pH level of 4.5 to 5.5 that makes sure the hair cuticle has minimal swelling and results in a smoother style.

Silky, shiny and with swish factor, Matrix Biolage is one of the brands of choice for professional hairdressers for the simple fact that it works. The shampoo - offered here as a duo alongside the conditioner - is made up of the brand’s trademarked Full Boost Technology that is all about long-lasting volume. It works by removing dirt and impurities that build up as part of your fast paced lifestyle, but in a gentle way and while offering a dose of strengthening proteins. As a result, hair isn’t weighed down by residue and strands looks thicker and fuller.