The best new-gen dry shampoo | Sali Hughes

It absorbs dirt and grease – and my hair looks better for it

As a devout dry shampoo user, I have often found myself defending it, lest someone wrongly assume I’m a shampoo dodger. “Dry shampoo” is, broadly, a misnomer; the product is less a hair cleaner than a hair styler. It doesn’t remove dirt or grease, but absorbs it, extending a blowdry by a day and adding bulk and grip to fine, flat, floppy hair, whether freshly washed or grubby.

And so it’s with some awkwardness that I now heap praise on a dry shampoo that does actually clean your hair, and which has brought down my weekly shampoo average.