Dry shampoo for oily hair

IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo has the best record for oily hair: 49 of 52 reviewers with oily hair said it absorbs the oil, and it holds up at both Ulta and Sephora. IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo is also the best pick sold on Amazon. Batiste Original Dry Shampoo has the highest share at 95%, but from far fewer reviewers (19 of 20).

  • 362 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Oct 2018 to Oct 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it absorb oil? What buyers said
  1. IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo 52 said either way
  2. Batiste Original Dry Shampoo 20 said either way
  3. Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo 52 said either way
  4. amika Perk Up Talc-Free Dry Shampoo 29 said either way
  5. Bumble and bumble Prêt-à-Powder Dry Shampoo 27 said either way
  6. Eva NYC Freshen Up Invisible Dry Shampoo 24 said either way
  7. Drybar Detox Dry Shampoo 49 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for oil absorption. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo Best record IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo 49 of 52 say it absorbs the oil See price & reviews on Amazon
What stands out

White residue is the complaint that keeps coming up, from 11% of IGK reviews to 16% of Drybar reviews.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1 IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo

IGK

First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo

Best for oil and volume

49/52 say it absorbs the oil

37% of reviews praise the oil absorption and 23% mention added volume. It scores 22 of 23 at Ulta and 27 of 29 at Sephora. The complaints are about feel: 16% say sticky or gritty.

What buyers praise

  • Nice scent 28%
  • Adds volume 23%
  • No white residue 18%
  • Buys an extra day 16%
  • Good value 9%

What buyers complain about

  • Sticky or gritty 16%
  • Leaves white residue 11%
  • Too expensive 11%
  • Strong or bad scent 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 22 of 23
  • Sephora 27 of 29
  • Brand site 3 of 3 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination13 of 14
  • Oily6 of 6
  • Normal3 of 4
  • Dry3 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light12 of 14
  • Light-medium to medium11 of 11
See price & reviews on Amazon

Share of 57 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

2 Batiste Original Dry Shampoo

Batiste

Original Dry Shampoo

19/20 say it absorbs the oil

A small sample, so read the 95% with care. 33% of its reviews mention the scent and 19% the added volume. Ranked on Ulta reviews.

What buyers praise

  • Nice scent 33%
  • Adds volume 19%
  • Buys an extra day 14%
  • No white residue 14%
  • Good value 10%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 19 of 20
  • Brand site 1 of 1 shown, not counted
See price & reviews on Amazon

Share of 21 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

3 Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo

Living Proof

Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo

42/52 say it absorbs the oil

Many reviewers say it buys an extra day (17%), but 10 of 52 said it didn't absorb their oil. 14% mention white residue.

What buyers praise

  • Nice scent 21%
  • Buys an extra day 17%
  • No white residue 16%
  • Adds volume 7%
  • Works on dark hair 5%

What buyers complain about

  • Leaves white residue 14%
  • Strong or bad scent 14%
  • Too expensive 10%
  • Sticky or gritty 7%
  • Nozzle clogs 3%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 20 of 24
  • Sephora 22 of 28
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination12 of 14
  • Dry1 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 5
4 amika Perk Up Talc-Free Dry Shampoo

amika

Perk Up Talc-Free Dry Shampoo

23/29 say it absorbs the oil

People like the scent (30%) and say it buys an extra day (20%). 6 of 29 oily-haired reviewers said it didn't absorb the oil, and 7% mention a clogging nozzle.

What buyers praise

  • Nice scent 30%
  • Buys an extra day 20%
  • No white residue 17%
  • Adds volume 10%
  • Works on dark hair 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Nozzle clogs 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 23 of 29
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination14 of 17
  • Oily2 of 4
  • Normal3 of 4
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light14 of 18
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 7
5 Bumble and bumble Prêt-à-Powder Dry Shampoo

Bumble and bumble

Prêt-à-Powder Dry Shampoo

Best for volume

20/27 say it absorbs the oil

Volume is the draw (27%), and 20% call it good value. Reviewers who list oily skin did worse with it, at 2 of 5, against 13 of 14 for combination skin.

What buyers praise

  • Adds volume 27%
  • Good value 20%
  • Buys an extra day 20%
  • Nice scent 17%
  • No white residue 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Leaves white residue 17%
  • Too expensive 10%
  • Sticky or gritty 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 20 of 27
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination13 of 14
  • Oily2 of 5
  • Dry2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light13 of 18
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 6
6 Eva NYC Freshen Up Invisible Dry Shampoo

Eva NYC

Freshen Up Invisible Dry Shampoo

18/24 say it absorbs the oil

Scent is the draw (57% mention it), and 18% call it good value. 6 of 24 said it didn't absorb their oil. Ranked on Ulta reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Nice scent 57%
  • No white residue 21%
  • Adds volume 18%
  • Good value 18%
  • Buys an extra day 11%

What buyers complain about

  • Leaves white residue 7%
  • Strong or bad scent 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 18 of 24
See price & reviews on Amazon

Share of 28 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

7 Drybar Detox Dry Shampoo

Drybar

Detox Dry Shampoo

32/49 say it absorbs the oil

The weakest record here: 32 of 49 said it worked. 16% of reviews mention white residue, though 21% like the scent.

What buyers praise

  • Nice scent 21%
  • Buys an extra day 18%
  • Adds volume 13%
  • No white residue 9%
  • Works on dark hair 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Leaves white residue 16%
  • Strong or bad scent 11%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 13 of 23
  • Sephora 19 of 26
  • Brand site 3 of 4 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination7 of 11
  • Oily5 of 7
  • Dry3 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light10 of 14
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 6

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 52,422 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for oil absorption and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Oct 2018 and Oct 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo Ulta and Sephora (57 reviews counted)
  2. Batiste Original Dry Shampoo Ulta (21 reviews counted)
  3. Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo Ulta and Sephora (58 reviews counted)
  4. amika Perk Up Talc-Free Dry Shampoo Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  5. Bumble and bumble Prêt-à-Powder Dry Shampoo Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  6. Eva NYC Freshen Up Invisible Dry Shampoo Ulta (28 reviews counted)
  7. Drybar Detox Dry Shampoo Ulta and Sephora (56 reviews counted)

People asking about it on Reddit

  1. drugstore dry shampoo recs/tips for very greasy hair or any other types for chronically greasy hair? r/beauty, Apr 2022, 42 comments
  2. Best dry shampoo for scalp/bangs that get greasy quickly? r/Sephora, Dec 2025, 29 comments
  3. Best dry shampoo for a superrr oily scalp? tia💘 r/Sephora, Mar 2022, 8 comments

Questions buyers ask

Which dry shampoo works for oily hair?

IGK First Class Charcoal Detox Dry Shampoo has the best record, at 49 of 52. Batiste Original Dry Shampoo has a similar share from fewer reviewers (19 of 20), and Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo has a larger sample at 42 of 52.

Does Drybar Detox dry shampoo work on oily hair?

For some, but it has the weakest record of the 7 products here: 32 of 49. 17 reviewers said it didn't absorb their oil.

Does Living Proof Perfect Hair Day work on oily hair?

It worked for 42 of 52 reviewers who mentioned oily hair. The misses were about oil that stayed (16% of its reviews) and white residue (14%).

Does dry shampoo leave white residue on oily hair?

Some do. 16% of Drybar reviews, 14% of Living Proof reviews and 11% of IGK reviews mention it. Our page on dry shampoo with no white residue ranks them by that problem.

Related problems

Dry shampoo Dry shampoo with no white residue Top pick: Olaplex No. 4D Detox Dry Shampoo 301 buyer reports Dry shampoo Dry shampoo for dark hair Top pick: amika Perk Up Talc-Free Dry Shampoo 295 buyer reports Shampoo Shampoo for oily scalp Top pick: OUAI Detox Clarifying Shampoo 363 buyer reports Hair oil Hair oil that's not greasy Top pick: Olaplex No.7 Bonding Hair Oil 154 buyer reports

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