The 18 Best Hair Growth Oils for Long, Lustrous Hair
The "long hair, don't care" lifestyle awaits you.


Ugh, waiting. Who has time for that? Okay, it's not like we always have a choice. Most things in life require patience, and growing out your hair can be one of them. But if your hair isn't growing as fast as you'd like, or if it doesn't feel healthy, We're here for you. Topical products, like hair growth oils filled with essential hair vitamins and gentle shampoos, can help jump-start your strands. Length? Check. Thickness? Check. Shine? Check.
But if you're really trying to make your hair grow super-fast, you can't only use hair oil. In a perfect world, that'd be amazing, but the truth is, healthy hair growth is an inside-out process. You have to supplement hair oils and shampoos with good habits like filling your body with lots of lean, plant-based protein, being gentle with your hair, using the right tools, shampooing less, brushing consistently, and rinsing your locks with cold water weekly. "Hair health and growth comes from within, so nutrition and personal care are crucial," notes celebrity hair stylist Juan Carlos Maciques.
Once you do that, you'll see the length in no time. Mermaid locks, here you come.
The Mane Choice The Alpha Multi-Vitamin Scalp Growth Oil
We can attest that this oil works, and it works fast. We can be impatient, complicating our jobs as beauty editors by craving—er, demanding—quick results. No lie: This made our healthy hair wishes come true in less than a month. The oil trickles down from root to tip, caressing each cuticle with essential multivitamins that promote stronger, longer strands.
Nutrafol Growth Activator Hair Serum
Nutralfol has a cult following for its hair growth supplements for women and men (plus, a postpartum formula!). The brand has added a hair-activating serum to its cult-loved lineup to optimize scalp health, formulated with Ashwagandha Exosomes to boost cell renewal and naturally activate thicker-looking, stronger-feeling hair in as little as 90 days. And don't worry about it feeling greasy on your scalp—it's extremely fast-absorbing and lightweight.
Grow Gorgeous Original Hair Density Serum
Dreaming of thick, flowing, voluminous locks? This unique formula accomplishes just that while promoting healthy hair using organic pea sprout extract and Chinese scullcap, soy, and wheat sprouts to stimulate roots, creating denser, thicker, and healthier-looking hair.
Vegamour GRO+ Advanced Hair Serum
This vegan hair growth oil is formulated with CBD, which deeply penetrates the dermis, reaching hair follicles at the root level to strengthen it. In combination with the brand's proprietary blend of concentrated mung bean, red clover, curcumin, and nicotiana benthamiana extracts, this blend increases the appearance of hair density, thickness, and volume without any toxic chemicals, carcinogens, or harmful side effects.
The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Serum for Hair Density
You love The Ordinary's skincare gems, but it turns out the brand makes pretty fantastic hair products, too. This multi-peptide serum is filled with ingredients that target stem cells to make hair look fuller and more voluminous.
EssyNaturals Hair Growth Oil with Caffeine and Biotin
This oil from EssyNaturals has more than 300 five-star reviews on Amazon. The serum-like texture deeply penetrates the hair, and the blend of oils keeps your hair feeling so soft. It contains castor oil and rosemary oil alongside caffeine to stimulate new growth.
Mizani 25 Miracle Nourishing Oil
This Mizani Miracle oil might be the answer to your hair's problems. When it comes to ingredients, this product takes no shortcuts—it's packed with 25 hardworking oils, like jojoba, sunflower seed, and coconut oil, which collectively combat brittleness and dryness. So, if your length is at a standstill, this leave-in oil will speed up your healthy hair process.
Briogeo B. Well Organic + Cold-Pressed 100% Castor Oil
Not all castor oil is created equal or up to Briogeo's beauty standards. This castor oil is cold-pressed to preserve the harvested seeds' nutrients. So rest assured your hair is getting high-grade, pure, and ultra-potent nutrients that will help lock in moisture for a happy scalp to stimulate hair growth.
Évolis Professional Promote Activator
Listen up: This activator promises to lengthen hair by 20 percent (!), which can come out to be two whole inches with consistent use. Natural actives—baobab, rosa multiflora, swertia chirata, and more—are responsible for this activator's hair fortifying powers to strengthen, condition, and lengthen your hair over time.
Olaplex No. 7 Bonding Hair Oil
You're looking at one of the best bonding oils in the game—a super popular pick for piecing broken hair back together. Hair bonds weaken for several reasons—chemically-processed treatments, color-treated damage, excessive brittleness, and so on—and this oil gets to the root of the issues (pun intended). Fermented green tea oil is one of the key ingredients, acting as an essential dose of nutrition for your hair.
Virtue Healing Oil
Before you move forward, sometimes you have to work backward to reverse the damage already done. This healing oil is made with nourishing vitamins and protective botanicals, like kalahari melon seed oil and tahitian gardenia flower extract, to give your hair all the protein it needs to continue growing long and strong.
Adwoa beauty Baomint™ Protect + Shine Oil Blend
A blend of pomegranate seed oil, grapeseed oil, and fractionated coconut oil keeps the hair you have soft while stimulating and nourishing further hair growth.
Tropic Isle Living Jamaican Black Castor Oil Glass Bottle
Jamaican black castor oil might as well be magic because this stuff works wonders. Why? Well, because its 100-percent pure blend uses traditional Jamaican methods to roast and boil organic castor beans. These beans are then blended to create a silky lather, proven to promote length, luster, and strong hair follicles. Oh, and you can use it to make your nails and lashes grow, too.
Leonor Greyl Regenerescence Naturelle Invigorating and Purifying Scalp Oil Treatment
We know, we know; $60 is a lot for hair oil. But you deserve to splurge on your strands, especially if you're dealing with damage or thinning. Thanks to the power of botanical ingredients like olive, borage, jojoba, and lavender oils, this oil breathes life back into brittle hair. The end result? Thicker, healthier hair.
Curls Blueberry Hair and Scalp Oil
It's time to manifest the bouncy, thick, full curls of your dreams. This is 100-percent safe to use on natural hair because it's made without parabens, sulfates, and mineral oil, which has harmful effects on textured hair. "Blueberry bliss" alone sounds enticing, but blueberry extracts actually do improve the circulation of your hair follicles. Consistent use results in thicker, longer, and stronger hair.
Kérastase Initialiste Scalp and Hair Concentrate
When you're on a mission to grow out your hair, you have to show some love to your scalp, too. This formula toes the line between a serum and an oil, covering your hair's bases from root to tip. As a result, your scalp will feel stimulated and soothed as soon as you apply it. In addition, this restorative oil works to keep your hair fibers intact, which in turn will provide you with a noticeable improvement in texture and length.
Mielle Rosemary Mint Scalp & Hair Strengthening Oil
Dry hair is the enemy. Unfortunately, it also doesn't look cute. To avoid parched-looking strands, employ this refreshing combo of rosemary mint and biotin for incredible shine. It also takes care of split ends and will bless you with a fuller and longer head of hair.
Dr. Hauschka Hair Tonic
Designate one day of the week for wash day. Then, give yourself an at-home salon treatment with this oil that works best when you leave it to marinate. You'll feel the soothing benefits of rosemary, borage, and horse chestnut, which work together to increase hair follicle circulation and restore weak strands.
Laura Lajiness Kaupke is a freelance writer and editor covering fashion, accessories, fine jewelry, and lifestyle topics, including beauty, home, fitness, and travel. You can see her work across various outlets, including VOGUE, Harper’s BAZAAR, ELLE, Glamour, Town&Country, InStyle, Esquire, Women’s Health, Brides, Refinery 29, Coveteur, The Zoe Report, Popsugar, Byrdie, WWD, Footwear News, Well+Good, The Editorialist, among other titles and brands. Laura has worked in the fashion industry for over 11 years and held senior fashion editor positions at Popsugar and The Zoe Report, with additional experience as a copywriter and fashion publicist.
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