The best shampoo and conditioner for frizzy hair is a matched pair built for your thickness. Eva NYC and amika say theirs suit medium to thick hair, while Briogeo and Not Your Mother's say all hair types. I would pick one pair, use it for two weeks, and judge the frizz, not the scent.

Nancy Twine started Briogeo in 2013 while she still worked at Goldman Sachs, drawing on formulas she and her mother had mixed in the family kitchen, and by Wikipedia's account the first lineup was one shampoo and three conditioners. I find that ratio clarifying. A brand that went on to build its name on smooth, calm hair started by betting that the conditioner does most of the talking. Most of us do the opposite, spending the attention on the shampoo and treating conditioner as an afterthought we rinse out in ten seconds.

The American Academy of Dermatology draws the line plainly: if your hair is dry or curly, put conditioner on the whole length, and if it is fine or straight, keep it to the ends. Shampoo goes on the scalp, and the suds do the rest on the way down. That is the whole framework, and it is why the first pairs here are the easy ones. Eva NYC's Frizz Fixer and Not Your Mother's aura boost each come as a matched shampoo and conditioner, which means one decision instead of two, and a matched pair is a fair way to find out whether your hair even has an opinion.

If you want more pairs, I also put together the best shampoo and conditioner pairs sorted by hair type.

Briogeo's Farewell Frizz is the line to measure everything else against, since it is built around this exact complaint and the shampoo and conditioner are sold as a pair. Amika's Forget Frizz arrives as a combo pack, which suits anyone who wants to commit to a full wash day and judge it after three washes rather than one. Ouidad's Advanced Climate Control Defrizzing Shampoo is the odd one out, a shampoo on its own and named for weather rather than hair type, and that is a useful clue. Frizz is often a humidity story, a gap between the moisture in your hair and the moisture in the air, and a formula designed around climate is making a different promise than one designed around dryness. If your hair is wavy as well as frizzy, there is a separate edit on the best shampoo and conditioner for frizzy wavy hair.

Here is the test I would run. Wash with one new shampoo for two weeks and leave the rest of the shelf alone. Frizz is slow to read, and if you change four things at once you cannot tell which one helped, so you end up crediting the wrong bottle for the win and the wrong one for the mess. Take a photo in the same bathroom light on day one and day fourteen, and trust the comparison over your mood.

Here are the shampoo and conditioner pairs from this edit, set side by side on who each is for and what the brand says it does for frizz.

 

Eva NYC Frizz Fixer. For medium to thick hair, straight to coily. The brand says the shampoo and conditioner were clinically tested as a system to combat frizz, with argan oil and no sulfates.

 

Not Your Mother's aura boost Anti-Frizz. For all hair types, aimed at frizz-prone, dry or stressed hair. The brand says it helps tame frizz and flyaways, and the conditioner is silicone-free.

 

Briogeo Farewell Frizz. For all hair types and textures concerned with dryness and frizz. The brand says it locks in hydration and locks out humidity, using rosehip, argan and coconut oils.

 

amika Forget Frizz. For medium to thick, coarse, wavy to coily hair (2A-4C). The brand says the pair showed up to 74% less frizz for 72 hours in high humidity in a clinical test, used as a system.

 

Peter Thomas Roth Mega-Rich. For all hair types, and dry or dehydrated hair in particular. The conditioner is described as leaving hair soft, smooth and frizz-free, with a biotin and vitamin formula.

 

e.l.f. Never Thirsty. For all hair types and textures. The brand makes no frizz claim: it moisturizes and detangles, with argan oil and provitamin B5.

Some hair is not frizzy because anything is wrong with it, only because it is thirsty, and the fix there is a heavier hand. Tracy Anderson's Nourishing Shampoo and Conditioner and Peter Thomas Roth's Mega-Rich pair are the two sets on this page that read as rich by name and by intent. They are what I would reach for in January, when indoor heat has done its work on everything, and not on a fine-haired, humid August day, because richness has a cost. Hair that is already fine can go flat and limp under a heavy conditioner, so the AAD's advice about keeping conditioner off the roots matters more here than anywhere else.

Work the conditioner from the mid-lengths down, comb it through with your fingers, and give it a full minute before you rinse. Then rinse longer than feels necessary. The most common mistake with a rich formula is not choosing the wrong one, it is leaving a film behind and deciding the product failed. If your hair feels coated once it is dry, use half as much next time before you decide to switch brands.

If the shampoo alone is your question, the best shampoo for dry frizzy hair starts at the cuticle.

This is the group I would hand to a friend who says she does not want a hair routine. E.l.f.'s Never Thirsty is a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner pair, L'Oréal Paris EverPure Frizz-Defy is a sulfate-free shampoo made with marula oil, and being's Goodbye Frizz is a plainly named shampoo that tells you its job before you read the label. None of them asks for a ritual, which is the point. Frizz routines fail when they ask too much, and a pair you will actually use on Sunday night beats a perfect one that lives at the back of the cabinet.

The sulfate-free choice deserves a sentence of its own. Sulfate-free shampoos tend to feel gentler and lather less, and that low lather surprises people into using twice as much. Use a small amount, put it on the scalp only, and let the rinse water carry it down the lengths. Then check how your hair feels when it is just towel-dried, before any styling. Hair that feels squeaky or rough at that stage is asking for more conditioner at the mid-lengths, not another layer of product on top.

Nexxus was founded in 1979 by the biochemist Jheri Redding, and the brand credits him with inventing the modern conditioner and with the idea of treating hair with proteins. I am repeating the brand's own story, so take the superlatives with a pinch of salt, but the Ultralight Smooth Conditioner for Dry and Frizzy Hair is a good reminder that this category is older than the haircare boom. It sits here with nous's Curl Shampoo and two Manymoons solid shampoo bars, one for normal hair and one for oily, because all four ask you to be specific about your hair rather than generic.

Curls and bars are the least forgiving part of the page. A curl shampoo should clean without stripping, so go slowly and use less than you think. Bars take a few washes to feel normal in the hand, and an oily scalp with dry ends is a combination that really does want a different product at the roots than at the tips. If that is you, wash the scalp with the bar and let only the foam travel down the lengths, then put the conditioner where the hair is oldest.

What is the best shampoo and conditioner for frizzy hair? A matched pair made for frizz and for your hair thickness. Eva NYC Frizz Fixer and amika Forget Frizz are made for medium to thick hair, and Briogeo Farewell Frizz and Not Your Mother's aura boost Anti-Frizz say they suit all hair types.

 

What is the best shampoo and conditioner for dry frizzy hair? Briogeo says Farewell Frizz is for hair concerned with dryness and frizz, using rosehip, argan and coconut oils. Not Your Mother's aura boost Anti-Frizz is aimed at frizz-prone, dry or stressed hair.

 

Which shampoo and conditioner is best for thick frizzy hair? Eva NYC lists Frizz Fixer as best for medium to thick hair, and amika lists Forget Frizz for medium to thick, coarse hair. I would start with whichever you can find in the two-week test.

 

What is the best shampoo and conditioner for frizzy straight hair? Eva NYC lists Frizz Fixer for straight, wavy, curly and coily textures, and amika lists Forget Frizz for medium to thick hair. For straight hair, the American Academy of Dermatology says to keep conditioner to the ends.

If I had one wash day to spend, I would start with the matched pair that is easiest to judge. Not Your Mother's if your hair is fine or somewhere in the middle, Eva NYC if it is medium to thick, Briogeo or Amika if you want to try the salon-adjacent version. The rich formulas are for hair that is actually dry, not for hair that is having a bad humidity day.

What I would skip is the long tail of extras. A makeup brush cleanser is not a hair product, a dry shampoo does nothing for frizz along the lengths, and a scalp growth serum answers a different question from the one you asked, so none of them are on this page. For the lengths between washes, a hair serum for frizzy hair does the job a dry shampoo cannot. Heat is the other quiet saboteur. The AAD recommends low or medium heat and a heat protectant whatever your hair type, and no wash routine survives a daily flat iron on high.

Give any new pair four or five washes before you decide. Frizz that took years to build will not be solved by one good Sunday, and it will not come back in a day either.