Please help me understand hair oiling

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I keep seeing adverts for this on instagram. My hair is very long, thick, naturally wavy but prone to looking dull and frizzy.

Would hair oiling help?

How does one actually oil their hair? What's the method?

And if it would help, can you recommend a good affordable hair oil to try (I can't afford the instagram adverts).

Just to say, I did try adding coconut oil to my hair when I was a teenager but it was MURDER trying to wash it out afterwards. So I'm intrigued by the adverts but also feeling a bit weary.

I think I have similar hair to you. If I brush my hair it becomes an instant frizz but putting a bit of oil really helps smooth it all down. I don’t find it leaves a residue to wash out - if anything it seems to absorb within a day and I have to top it up.
I use the Olaplex one which isn’t cheap for a small bottle BUT I’ve had it about a year and haven’t even used a quarter as you only need a few drops on your hand that you massage through the bottom half of your hair. That said, I don’t use it daily, only if I’m going somewhere nice

There's two types of oil. Some are sealing oils to seal moisture in and some are moisturising oils to add moisture in. Which your hair prefers can be found by trial and error. I use pure oils. I get them from boots. Almond oil is my favourite. I run it through the lengths and ends whilst damp if my hair still feels dry after shampoo and conditioner. Then add less styling products than usual because the oil helps with that. Or if my hair has frizzed up during the day but I am not planning on washing it the next day, I'll run some oil through it and by next morning it'll look frizz free again and not oily. I have fine hair, long and plentiful, I use a 50p sized amount of oil and usually add a few drops of essential oil to it for the scent. The hair oils blends you can buy usually contain silicone which I like to avoid. They're also expensive compared to the cost of pure oil.

Off the top of my head (and this may be inaccurate as well as not being an exhaustive list. GIYF if you want more information):

Sealing oils -
Coconut
Grapeseed
Castor

Moisturising oils -
Almond
Olive
Jojoba

I've been seeing a SM trend for oiling the scalp with rosemary oil (think it's an essential oil that would need to be diluted in a base oil, like all essential oils do) and that's for hair growth. Whether it's the oil or the scalp massage that tends to go with it which promotes the growth, IDK. It would need to be washed out after a while not left in until your next hair wash.

This is mine. It's about £10.

Olive oil from food shops is the cheapest.

I bought the Mielle rosemary scalp oil that's all over social media, it's too early for me to say if it's working yet but I tend to apply about a tsp massaged into my roots and scalp then brushed through the lengths and ends. I leave it on for an hour before washing as normal, and do this once or twice a week. My hair was dry and frizzy and it seems to be improving.

My hairdresser swears by the Olaplex bonding oil, just a few drops as a finishing/styling oil, but it's ££!

Hair oil is fantastic. If you use coconut oil, add shampoo first before water ,rub it in then stand under the shower and shampoo again .

Thank you all for the input.

I've got some Keratse (sp) oil which I use on dry hair. But I'm thinking I need to try very deep conditioning. I've seen youtube videos of women using a dropper all over their scalp, then massaging it in and combing through and leaving it in for a couple of hours before washing it out. My memories of my coconut oil experience are making me agonise (maybe too much) over the type of oil to buy.

I love moroccanoil and just apply it towards the ends of my hair before drying
uk.moroccanoil.com/products/be-an-original-2024