Use a richer, cream shampoo and conditioner, and watch no more than twice a week. An excellent treatment is to comb warm olive or almond oil through dry hair, then wrap in hot towels and leave for a couple of hours before shampooing. A little conditioner or treatment cream massaged into the tips revives very dry hair in between shampoos.

A course of taking cod or halibut liver oil tablets may help to replace the gloss, whilst supplying the hair with valuable vitamin A. Gentle scalp massage also helps stimulate nutrients to the scalp and hair roots.