16 Best Heat Protectant Sprays for Wet and Dry Hair (2026)

Honorable Mentions

Sutra Heat Guard Blowout Cream for $24: I emotion Sutra’s IR2 hairsbreadth straightener, truthful I had precocious hopes. This heavy and astir fragrance-free pick is meant to support up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit and trim drying time, but my hairsbreadth felt dried retired aft use.

Mane Temp Check for $26: “Smell cute, consciousness cuter” goes the slogan for this enactment of hairsbreadth products and tools from personage hairstylist Jen Atkin, laminitis of Ouai. This pinkish spray instantly cheers up immoderate bath antagonistic with its handwritten-style cartoon letters, blessed clouds, and lychee/rose/vanilla scent. Though I loved however it worked connected my 3a hair, I tin spot however it whitethorn beryllium excessively drying for some.

The Rootist BioBrew Fermented Leave-In Repair Serum for $57: Same arsenic the brand's adust shampoo, this lightweight spray's assertion to fame is its usage of Rootbiotic Ferment, a fermented botanical blend that provides bioavailable nutrients for the scalp and hair. It's an absorbing concept, but I wasn't blown distant by its modular properties similar frizz reduction. At this price, for little than 2 ounces of product, I felt similar I should be.

IGK Good Behavior Supreme Seal Smoothing Serum for $34: I similar this pump-bottle serum a batch arsenic a finishing merchandise and for applying to adust ends, but it's excessively hard to get adjacent exertion arsenic a regular vigor protectant.

R+Co On a Cloud Bond Building Repair and Styling Oil for $38: Same arsenic above, I emotion this merchandise arsenic a styling and finishing oil, but not arsenic a vigor protectant. (Though it is vigor protective up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.)

Verb Hydrate Oil for $36: This 450-degree-Fahrenheit protective, serum-like merchandise near my hairsbreadth a small oilier than akin products. Online reviews kick astir malfunctioning pump bottles, but excavation had nary issues.

Function of Beauty Smooth With It Blowout Mist for $13: This Target-exclusive spray is fortified with argan lipid and Tsubaki lipid (from camellia fruit), a communal constituent successful galore K-beauty products. It is simply a spray, but I was amazed to find it comes retired with an opaque, cream-like consistency alternatively than arsenic a liquid, which means it goes connected a spot heavy. That said, sometimes my frizzy hairsbreadth needs thing connected the dense side, and this decidedly acceptable the bill—it did visibly trim frizz aft blow-drying, and my hairsbreadth felt precise soft.

Remilia Rice & Shine Leave-in Conditioner for $24: This hydrating, heat-protective leave-in spray comes successful a cool, cork-topped vessel and has an inoffensive scent. However, it did not bash overmuch for frizz successful my tests.

Jess & Lou Protect Thermal Protect Mist for $20: I appreciated this sustainably sourced, natural, and integrated spray, but it was lone protective up to 350 degrees Fahrenheit—too debased for the tools I use—and it didn't execute good connected frizz. (I did, however, emotion the brand's ultra-hydrating ResQ hairsbreadth mask.)

Goddess BioTech Blowout for $40: This leave-in cream, powered by the proprietary Goddess Molecule, worked conscionable good connected my 3a hair, but to tamp down frizz, I had to usage the aforesaid magnitude arsenic I would different product, which matters erstwhile it costs $40 for a 1.7-ounce bottle.

L'ange Glass Hair for $30: This heat-activated primer promised precocious shine, but it did not present successful my tests. Otherwise, it's a perfectly serviceable vigor protectant, though determination are akin options for less.

Marc Anthony Grow Long Anti-Frizz Shield Ultimate Blowout for $10: This anti-frizz spray is simply a large value, but it didn't enactment wonders connected my 3a curls, and Function of Beauty's Smooth With It (above) outperformed it successful this terms category.

Raw Sugar Multi Miracle Leave-in Conditioner for $10: I truly liked the wood accent and spray nozzle connected the vessel of this heat-protective leave-in conditioner, but it did not execute good connected frizz successful my tests.

Biolage Thermal Setting Spray for $24: I admit the Biolage brand, and the information that this tin beryllium utilized connected either damp oregon adust hairsbreadth (though it doesn't springiness a somesthesia limit). However, whether I utilized it bedewed oregon dry, I recovered it near parts of my hairsbreadth stiff. Some online reviewers, though, recovered they rather liked it for mounting curls.

Emi Jay Heavenly Hair Milk for $40: This is not precisely a spray, but it is lightweight capable that it could be, and it comes successful a chill vessel with a pump that twists down to go a flush cap. It's a operation vigor protectant and detangler that happens to beryllium an fantabulous anti-frizz merchandise connected its ain (it supposedly cuts down connected drying time, too, but this diagnostic wasn't notable successful my testing). This was, astatine 1 time, my archetypal prime for champion smelling, but idiosyncratic online said it smelled similar Play-Doh, and I was ne'er capable to un-smell it.

Moroccanoil Perfect Defense Heat Protectant for $15 (2 ounces): All of Moroccanoil’s products are infused with argan oil, and this spray, which protects up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit, is nary exception. It tin beryllium utilized connected bedewed oregon adust hair, and it’s highly lightweight—I thought it felt and acted similar a airy hairspray, for amended oregon for worse. I didn’t emotion the scent oregon the super-fine, alcohol-based mist—in fact, I was disquieted it would adust my hairsbreadth out, but it didn’t.

Milk_Shake Lifestyling Amazing Anti-Humidity Spray for $28 and Smoothing Cream for $24: I emotion Milk_Shake arsenic a brand, and these products were conscionable fine, but didn't basal retired capable to suffice arsenic apical picks.

Verb Frizz Defense Smoothing Spray for $22: I'd heard large things astir this frizz-fighting spray, and so it's lightweight, feels non-drying, and doesn't permission immoderate dense residue. It'd beryllium a large prime if you person consecutive oregon wavy hair, but determination are much effectual options to chopped frizz for type 3 and 4 curls if you're trying to execute a blowout.

John Frieda Frizz Ease Extra Strength Hair Serum for $11: The terms is close connected this old-school classic—I utilized it for years backmost successful the ’90s. However, it's overmuch thinner present than it was then. It's inactive fine, conscionable not among my apical picks for frizz reduction.

Reverie Milk Anti-Frizz Leave-in Nourishing Treatment for $44: I loved this cream's spicy botanical scent, stylish solid bottle, and the information that it protects up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit (according to Reverie; it does not accidental truthful connected the bottle). It worked fine! There are conscionable excessively galore amended options for fractional the price. (Ed. note: This is reviews exertion Adrienne So's existent favourite vigor protectant for thick, wavy 2a hair. She chiefly likes the easiness of exertion and frizz prevention, but admits that it's anserine expensive.)

Others We Tried

Hairstory Primer Smoothing and Moisturizing Protection Mist for $36: This leave-in mist protects up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit and is designed to enactment with the full Hairstory New Wash Method ($86), which involves a detergent-free “cleansing cream.” I tried it and it reminded maine of the full “no ’poo” question of the aboriginal aughts, wherever practitioners eschewed modern shampoo for much earthy options similar baking soda. This method is not for everyone, but if you bash effort it, I don't deliberation the mist adds capable to warrant the cost.

IGK Good Behavior Spirulina Protein Smoothing Spray for $38: This aerosol felt similar it dried my hairsbreadth retired a bit, and it has the aforesaid unpleasant scent arsenic the Good Behavior 4-in-1 (above). I didn't attraction for it successful a liquid spray, but it was overwhelming successful aerosol unreality form.

R+Co Bleu Hypersonic Heat Styling Mist for $36: This high-tech-looking aerosol successful a recycled aluminum vessel was a favourite during the aboriginal weeks of testing—I liked its extortion up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit and its frizz-fighting properties. However, it does usage a polymer and resin analyzable to creaseless hair, and implicit time, I noticed it was leaving a sticky residue connected my hands and vigor tools.

Brocato Cloud 9 Miracle Repair 3-in-1 Leave-in Conditioning Spray for $30 and Brocato Cloud 9 Blowout Blow Dry Serum for $28: People rave astir Cloud 9 online, and I truly similar genitor marque Beautopia's vibrating hairsbreadth straightener, but neither of these products did overmuch to chopped down frizz during my tests.

Mane Cotton Candy Dry Texture and Volume Spray for $26: Protective up to 380 degrees Fahrenheit, this styler is expected to adhd volume, and I had precocious hopes fixed my affirmative acquisition with this brand's Temp Check vigor protectant (above). However, it had the other effect connected my mid-back-length hair.

Briogeo Farewell Frizz Blowdry Perfection & Heat Protectant Creme for $26: I person thick, unruly hair, and this pick protectant felt similar it really made my hairsbreadth unmanageable and harder to style. It whitethorn talk to its effectiveness, but I felt similar I had to instrumentality excessively galore passes with a titanium level robust turned up to max temperature.

Pureology Instant Levitation Mist for $34: Pureology is known for its formulas made specifically for color-treated hair, truthful I was hoping this would beryllium a great-performing solution for those who don't privation to hazard ruining their costly highlights oregon balayage. However, it seemed to permission a dull residue, and neither I nor my short-haired tester recovered the volumizing diagnostic to beryllium precise effective.

R+Co Chainmail Thermal Protection Styling Spray for $36: I appreciated this spray for its quality to adhd tons of disposable shine, but the aerosol nozzle was not arsenic targeted arsenic I’d person liked, creating specified a wide-ranging, fine-mist fog that it was astir intolerable not to respire it in. I besides recovered the cologne-like scent overwhelming.

Milk_Shake Lifestyling Thermo-Protector for $26: I usually emotion Milk_Shake products, but this aerosol spray felt similar it dried retired my hairsbreadth and amplified my already hard-to-handle frizz aft blow-drying. It besides did not adhd a discernible magnitude of radiance arsenic promised.

FoxyBae Cool AF Heat Protectant + Biotin for $17: I similar the cheery plan of this pump spray bottle, arsenic good arsenic the information that it tin beryllium utilized connected bedewed oregon adust hair. However, it didn’t look arsenic effectual arsenic different brands and was greasy erstwhile utilized connected adust hair.

Chi 44 Iron Guard for $19: This drugstore stalwart works good to support from vigor portion besides tamping down frizz, and the caller Botanical Bliss scent is an betterment implicit the archetypal formula's. However, it near a sticky residue connected my hands and vigor tools.

Neqi Diamond Glass Styling Spray for $12: I emotion Neqi's hairsbreadth perfume spray, truthful I had precocious hopes for its vigor protectant, but it conscionable didn't bash overmuch to trim frizz.

FAQs

Ingredients vary, but astir vigor protectants enactment overmuch the aforesaid way: by deploying ingredients similar copolymers oregon silicone that overgarment the hairsbreadth shaft to dilatory (though not wholly stop) vigor conduction. Many vigor protectants besides see moisturizers to assistance seal and creaseless the cuticle to trim frizz. Because vigor protectants tin lone slow, not wholly stop, vigor damage, it's inactive important to usage the lowest vigor settings you tin for your hairsbreadth for the slightest magnitude of time.

I lavation my 3a curly hair doubly a week, past blow-dry and travel up with a straightening iron. I interaction up my hairsbreadth with a straightening iron regular successful between. I tested the vigor protectants successful this usher successful the people of my mean day-to-day beingness implicit a play of 4 months. I utilized each merchandise connected either damp hairsbreadth earlier blow-drying oregon connected adust hairsbreadth earlier the straightening iron—whichever was indicated by the instructions. If a merchandise could beryllium utilized connected damp and adust hair, I tried it some ways.

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