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Every time you drizzle EVOO over a salad or dunk a piece of baguette into the amber-hued oil, your body gets a hearty helping of antioxidants and monosaturated fat (a heart-healthy type of fat). Using olive oil on your skin (and remember, your scalp is skin!) also has important benefits: Those same ingredients protect and nurture the scalp and hair, including boosting shine and taming frizz. That’s why Sauce Beauty dressed up their Intense Repair Oil Treatment with extra virgin olive oil. Here, we detail the ways in which olive oil can help your hair. 1. It protects against scalp...

We’re all a little bit damaged—hair-wise, that is. If you use a blow-dryer (check), wield a curling- or flat-iron (check), color your hair (check), spend time outside in the sunlight without a hat (ooops, check), you may be sporting some signs of abuse on your strands: dullness, hair breakage, dryness, and a straw-like texture. Another sign of damaged hair? A stressed-out scalp. Just like the skin on your face, the skin on your head can get tight, irritated, and flaky when it’s not being treated so gently. The remedy? A treatment shampoo that tackles both the health of your strands and...

Your best friend swore off of them years ago; your favorite natural health store has straight up banned them; and your colorist speaks of them as if they were spun from the devil himself. We’re talking about sulfates, salt-based molecules that are traditionally found in hair and skincare products such as shampoos, face washes, as well as toothpastes and detergents. As you’ve probably already noticed, these ingredients have garnered quite the bad reputation over the past decade or so. While there’s a strong anti-sulfate movement at the moment, experts say there has also been a lot of confusion and even miscommunication...