This Sea Salt Spray gives styles a beachy look with a matte finish. This is a great product to provide texture, extreme volume and light control whilst also giving a messy and beach-like look with added body. Frizz and electro-static will be kept in control. 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. 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.

There are several ways to get the best out of your sea salt spray. If you like a more natural look, then use sea salt spray when your hair is dry and give it a blast with a hairdryer set to cold. You’ll get awesome texture without looking like your hair is full of product. And, thanks to its mix of hydrating aloe vera and moisturizing shea butter and plant oils (castor, argan, and moringa oils), it won’t leave your hair feeling like straw, even with its salty base. The only decision you will have to make? Whether to grab this one in the citrus scent (which has a lighter-weight formula) or the tropical-coconut scent (which has a more moisturizing formula).

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? Made with sea salt, it makes the hair look wavy with a matte finish - like you've just walked off the beach. 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 not just any salt will cut it, Original and Mineral steps up with Australian sea salt. They know a thing or two about beachy waves down there. The brand tries to keep the list of chemicals in its products to a minimum, offering instead natural extracts and active minerals. 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.” Redken certainly has its reputation to live up to with its sea salt spray. The company has been creating bathroom hair care staples for almost 60 years, so it’s no surprise they’ve tapped into the trend for sea salt spray. Their offering is lightweight, so there’s no crunchy feeling to the hair and gives a matt finish with just enough texture, though probably less hold, too. This is a product for those who want to dip their toe into sea salt spray. Use on damp hair and reapply when required.On dry hair, apply the Davines Texturizing Dustto give volume at the roots. Explore the Davines More Inside collection. 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.