How to Use Sea Salt Spray for The Ultimate Beach Waves
With salt spray for the hair, you can achieve the casual beach waves, the beloved summer hairstyle of many women. We tell you how you too can create that vacation feeling on your hair.
What are Beach Waves?
Who doesn’t like it, the softly tanned skin in summer and the hair kissed by the sun? Beach waves are the summer hairstyle par excellence. Thanks to the sea air and salt water, they usually develop all by themselves on the beach: the wet hair dries in the sun and every now and then you run your fingers through your hair, including sunscreen residues on your hand.
They are easy and casual and should by no means look perfect. Ideally, no two waves should be the same. With salt spray you can also conjure up the natural curls in your hair and without any sea air, sun or salt water.
How to use a salt spray for hair and how it works?
Salt spray applied to the hair gives hold, grip and volume. The spray creates a matte, natural look and waves like on the beach, without stressing the damaged hair.
It is best applied to damp or towel-dried hair. To do this, spray a few spritzes of the spray on your hair and distribute it in the lengths. In summer, you can let it air dry in damp hair, so the natural waves will be even more beautiful. In winter, you can use a hairdryer with a diffuser attachment because it will give your hair more volume. To achieve beach waves in your hair, either knead the entire hair after applying the spray or twirl individual strands to achieve a casual look.
Tip: Even if your hair looks particularly beautiful afterwards, you should avoid regular use, because excessive salt content can damage the hair and make it hard.
And if, nevertheless, too much or too often salt spray got into the hair:
Individual strands can stick together due to the increased use of salt spray, so that the beach look that was just so beautiful is already history again. To loosen the stuck strands in this case, you only need a hairdryer with which you can blow through the stuck hair on the lowest setting, so the salt spray is released from your hair and the hair falls beautifully again.
What is salt spray made of?
As the name suggests, the salt spray is made of salt, but not only that, because the hair styling also contains sugar, water and vitamins. The hair does not stick together as long as you do not overdo the use of salt spray on the hair. Depending on the salt spray, it may contain other nourishing ingredients for the hair.
Which hair is the salt spray suitable for?
Salt sprays can be used for all hair lengths and types; they are ideal for short, medium-length and fine hair because they give the hair texture – thanks to their salt content. Your hair looks casual and stylish at the same time. With long hair, thanks to the spray, it can unfortunately appear as if the hair is greasy and unkempt, even though it isn’t.
Tip: Do you have very straight hair? No problem! Simply divide your hair into sections before use and spray almost every single strand with the spray. Your beach look is finished too!
Salt spray and oily hair
Oily hair in particular benefits from using sea salt spray, because it not only creates casual curls and waves like on the beach, but also removes moisture and grease from the hair at the same time.
Care tip: There are already some shampoos that contain salts such as sea salt, because this is not only good for the hair, but also for the scalp. Try it!
DIY: Make salt spray yourself
For those of you who prefer to make the hair spray themselves, we have the right recipe here.
Ingredients
- 1 spray bottle
- 1.5 cups warm water
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon hair gel
- 2 tbsp salt
Preparation
- Warm the coconut oil in a water bath.
- Then add all of the ingredients to the spray bottle and shake it well. Your hair salt spray is ready!
- If the oil settles down after a while, briefly warm the spray, for example with body heat or with a hairdryer.